Important Security Fix for WordPress

Zia — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:53:08 +0000

Perishable Press reports a very important WordPress security risk to fix as soon as WordPress is installed.
The fix #3 is the easiest and the most useful to the website owner to protect one’s own site and understand the ongoing problem.
Read the full article at Perishable Press.

WordPress NoticeBoard theme

Zia — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:37:30 +0000

NoticeBoard is a free simple light theme for WordPress self-hosted.

Features:

Three fluid columns that adjust accordingly as the window is resized.
Scalable font-size that adjusts on the browser zoom.
Widget based theme.
Available in black, blue, green, pink, red, white.
Custom Style Sheets.
Google Custom Search Engine integrated.
Google Website Translate integrated.
Fully satisfies the guidelines and requirements of WordPress Theme Development Checklist.
Tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome.
Current version.

Customizations:

If you plan to customize NoticeBoard, then consider to use Widgets and Custom Styles to make future upgrades of this theme easier.
Widgets and Custom Styles allow you to customize NoticeBoard, superseding the settings defined by default, without actually touching them.
Because Widgets and Custom Styles are kept separate from the theme files, your customization will not get overwritten each time NoticeBoard is upgraded.

To customize, go to “WordPress Site Admin » Appearance”:

Click on “Widgets” menu to add and manage your extra features.
Widgets help | Widgets list | XHTML help
Click on “Custom Styles” menu to add and manage your custom CSS code.
CSS help

Install this theme in .zip format:

Download NoticeBoard.zip (released under the CC-GNU GPL version 2.0 or later).
Go to “WordPress Site Admin » Appearance » Add New Themes » Upload”.
More detailed installation instructions are available at WordPress Adding New Themes.

Links:

Suggested Plugins:

Akismet Anti Spam (shipped with WordPress, needs to be activated)
WordPress Health Check (this plugin will perform a number of checks on your WordPress install to detect common configuration errors and known issues)
Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi
Really Simple Captcha by Takayuki Miyoshi (for Contact Form 7)
Fast and Secure Contact Form by Mike Challis
SI Captcha Anti-Spam by Mike Challis (for comment, registration and login form)
Subscribe to Comments by Mark Jaquith
PHP Code Widget by Otto
Print This Section by Scott Hair
NextGEN Gallery by Alex Rabe
FancyBox by Jose Pardilla

Who uses NoticeBoard theme for WordPress:

http://fx-gambit.com/

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