Posts tagged: Links
![WordPress Defender: 30 Ways to Secure Your Website](/wp-content/blog-images/wp-defender.jpg)
WordPress Defender: 30 Ways to Secure Your Website
Looking for a good book on WordPress security? If so, we’ve got great news! John Hoff’s new security e-book WordPress Defender provides 30 practical ways to secure your website from the evil forces of spam, bad bots, and malicious hackers. The book is packed with practical, common-sense security techniques that virtually any WordPress user can use to protect their site from malicious threats.
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Remove Title from Blogroll
Typically when you use one of WordPress functions to output a list of “stuff” from WordPress, you can pass a parameter to eliminate the “title” that WordPress likes to put in there by default. For example, with wp_list_categories
you pass along “title_li=” with nothing after the equals sign to remove the title that normally accompanies the output. With the function to output links (e.g. blogroll), you use the function wp_list_bookmarks, but unfortunately using that same parameter the same way is ineffective at removing the title.
![Media Temple, WordPress, Mass Hacking](/wp-content/blog-images/mt-thumb.png)
Media Temple, WordPress, Mass Hacking
Update: Media Temple is saying1 that:
- They aren’t 100% sure of the cause, but yes, the hack is their fault.
- About 10% of all (gs) users were affected.
- It’s not WordPress specific, it’s PHP specific.
- Definitely change your passwords, definitely don’t change it back to the original password.
![WP Typo Abound!](/wp-content/blog-images/wp-typo-updates-thumb.png)
WP Typo Abound!
The month of November is National Novel Writing Month (or #NaNoWriMo). Joel Goodman is participating and thought that the WP Typo theme would be a good fit for it. Joel has expanded upon the theme by adding a settings page with various typography options, better integrated user registration, and some custom design tweaks.
![Easy Shortcode Permalinks](/wp-content/blog-images/permalinkthumb.png)
Easy Shortcode Permalinks
When you are building a theme, and the circumstance comes up where you need to create a link to a specific page hard-baked right into the theme, there is a function you should be using.
![How to Implement Tumblr-Style Links for Posts and Feeds](/wp-content/blog-images/tumblelog-posts.jpg)
How to Implement Tumblr-Style Links for Posts and Feeds
Since posting the DiW tutorial on designing a Tumblelog theme for WordPress, several readers have asked for a tutorial on how to setup just the Tumblr/tumblelog-style post links …without having to implement the entire theme.
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Plugin Spotlight: Postalicious
The social bookmarking service Delicious has always been friendly with WordPress. In fact, right from the settings of your Delicious account you can set up a blog posting “job” which will literally post your links directly to your blog with no further intervention on your part. Easy peasy.
![How to Design a Tumblelog Theme for WordPress](/wp-content/blog-images/tumblelog-icon.jpg)
How to Design a Tumblelog Theme for WordPress
Tumblelogs are a great way to streamline mixed-media blogging for different types of content. Commonly used tumblelog topics include “Links”, “Photos”, “Quotes”, “Dialogue”, and “Video”. A good tumblelog presents each these different topics with its own unique format while retaining an overall sense of cohesion throughout the entire design.