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How to Monitor WordPress 3.0 Security Problems through Plugins

Nur — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:05:30 +0000

WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world but the down side is that it attracts a lots of hackers. Make sure your WordPress installation is up to date with the latest release. However, there are a number of other little things you can do, today I’ll walk you through several plugins that will help you maintain a secure installation.

1. WordPress Firewall

WordPress Firewall monitors HTTP requests for blacklisted phrases and can email you when it finds
something suspicious. This WordPress plugin investigates web requests with simple WordPress-specific heuristics to identify and stop most obvious attacks. There exist a few powerful generic modules that do this; but they’re not always installed on web servers, and difficult to configure.

Download WordPress Firewall | Plugin Homepage

2. Exploit Scanner

This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
It does not remove anything. That is left to the user to do.

Download Exploit Scanner | Plugin Homepage

3. Audit Trail

Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

Download Audit Trail | Plugin Homepage

I’ve shown you a handful of plugins that help you keep an eye on your installation. Now that you know what to look for, these tools should help you maintain a fast, healthy WordPress site.

Fisher Price Expert Series

Nur — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:48:33 +0000

At Fisher-Price®, giving young ones the best possible start in life is something we take very seriously. In developing all of our products, we work with leading experts in the field of Early Childhood Development and we wanted to share their knowledge with parents. So, we created Step by Step Parenting – the Fisher-Price® Expert Series. This initiative is designed to provide parents and carers with practical insights and advice based on the latest local and international research, from the best in the business.

Source: www.fisherpriceexperts.com.au
Why it’s in the Showcase: The Fisher Price Expert Series website is a great use of WordPress by an exciting international brand to help promote issues beyond just selling products. The site has enabled Fisher-Price to provide a series of experts to easily share their knowledge via an easy to use CMS. eDM’s and advice and competitions are in turn then delivered to a wide parent audience.
Theme Name: Childs Play Parenting
Description: A custom theme created for Childs Play Parenting
Author: Andy Gargan
This theme was designed by Tony Cormack and built by Andy Garan, whose blog you will find at http://ffburo.com/

VW TDI

Nur — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:39:44 +0000

VW TankWars is a site that challenges VW TDI drivers to produce a world record mileage score.

While the main part of VW’s TankWars site is powered by WordPress, the most interesting aspect of the site is its use of BuddyPress. Each driver’s profile (see the site’s “Leaderboard” on the right) contains their best milage score and rankings. Users can upload photos, vote on profiles, and leave comments.
Theme Name: VW TDI Tank Wars
Theme URI: http://carringtontheme.com
Description: Theme for TDI Tank Wars by Crowd Favorite. Base on Carrington Theme Framework.
Author: Crowd Favorite
Author URI: http://crowdfavorite.com

Where In The World Are The Tarantino´s’

Nur — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:59:14 +0000

Where In The World Are The Tarantino´s’. Nolan and Hannah Tarantino – Missionaries to Europe
Nolan and Hannah Tarantino have lived in Europe since 2001. Their passion to bring hope to Europe has driven them to live in Brussels, Belgium where the base out of while doing as much as they can reaching Europe… stay in touch to hear about where they are working
Theme Name: deLirium
Theme URI: http://themeshift.com/delirium
Description: Personal Blog WordPress Theme by ThemeShift.com
Author: Simon Rimkus
Author URI: http://themeshift.com

Key West News: Traveler Magazine WordPress Theme

Nur — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:16:56 +0000

A Multilingual Travel Magazine WordPress theme ideal for those wanting to run a magazine website related to Travel, City Portals and Lifestyle in general. The theme features a Home page article slider, video rotator, banner management , full featured theme options and more.
A multi search destination is featured on the right sidebar where you can pick any combination of categories to display filtered results.

Key West News
Theme Name: Traveler
Theme URI: http://www.gorillathemes.com/traveler/
Description: Travel Magazine Theme for WordPress
Author: Gorilla Themes
Author URI: http://www.gorillathemes.com/

Irrational Games

Nur — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:39:31 +0000

Irrational Games is an award winning video game developer located in Boston, MA. The company has released games such as BioShock and Swat 4.

Irrational Games uses WordPress MU and BuddyPress to power its extensive and well-designed site and community.
Theme Name: Irrational Games
Theme URI: http://buddypress.org/extend/themes/
Description: The default theme for BuddyPress.
Author: BuddyPress.org

Chris Kaufman

Nur — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:25:07 +0000

Chris Kaufman – Interaction designer, information architect, writer and internet marketer.
Name: PRESS
Author URI and Design Studio: Obox Design http://www.obox-design.com/
Author: Obox Design

Document Sharing Plugins for WordPress 3.0

Nur — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:15:07 +0000

WordPress with combination of plugins, it is possible to share documents. Although, It is always very tricky for a committee or a club, finding a good way to share news and documents. The Members Only plugin from ChurChcrunch is a WordPress plugin that allows you to make your blog only viewable to visitors that are logged in.

Again, Sidebar Login from blue-anvil is useful for letting people log in without dealing with the somewhat intimidating Dashboard.

The List Child Attachments plugin will list any files uploaded to a post or page, without the user having to insert each one into the content individually. In other words, it works like a gallery, but for files other than images.

The Event Calendar (his plugin is a more enhanced version of the basic calendar provided by WordPress.) or GigPress (a powerful WordPress plugin designed for musicians and other performers. Manage all of your upcoming and past performances) will be useful if your group needs to keep track of events.

To let the group stay in touch by e-mail, Subscribe 2 and Subscribe to Comments (a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries)will notify all users of new posts
and new comments.
If your group needs to review documents, the Comment Author Checklist plugin (a WordPress plugin for writers’ critique groups and any other group blog doing some kind of document review) prints a list of registered users and crosses people’s names off the list once they’ve commented on a post.

The Digress.it plugin from Digres.it and Visudo Labs lets you comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text.

Reference: Beginning WordPress 3

Jay Hafling

Nur — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:35:29 +0000

Jay Hafling: Freelance web designer & WordPress themes development
Theme Name: Jay hafling
Theme URI: http://www.jayhafling.com/

BryceCornet

Nur — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:25:24 +0000

BryceCornet.com | Official Website of Up-And-Coming Race Driver Bryce Cornet
With fifty podiums and four track records in his kart racing career, Bryce Cornet is the perfect candidate to become a professional race car driver.
Theme Name: Bryce Cornet Custom
Author URI and Theme URI: http://www.ilabmedia.com/
Description: A custom wordpress implementation by iLab New Media
Author: Andy Ward