One of the major advantages, which you can derive from adding twitter bootstrap framework to your WordPress Theme, is that, you need not start working on your website from the scratch. The existing WordPress theme can be added with a twitter bootstrap framework making the site even more responsive in every manner. Once the twitter bootstrap framework is added to the existing WordPress Theme, a person, usually the admin can easily make the changes in different areas along with installation of Plug-ins.

What is a twitter bootstrap?

Before taking use of the twitter bootstrap, it is essential to know about what twitter bootstrap is all about. Two developers of twitter created the bootstrap so that workload can be enhanced. Once the bootstrap was developed and made public, it was beneficial in creating websites, which were faster and took less time in loading. Below mentioned are some of the advantages of twitter bootstrap.

1. Simple layouts, which makes the working of the website easy globally

• Simple elements and codes for HTML and WordPress Themes

• Simple style for components of interface like pills, tabs, alerts etc.

• Plug-ins like Java along with different components can be added with ease.

Bootstrap examples page | Bootstrap Templates by ThemeForest

Starting the working process of building a responsive WordPress Theme with Twitter Bootstrap Framework

Before you start on the basic elements, you need to follow some steps that are essential
and mentioned below.

• Installation of WordPress

• Download and Unzipping the Twitter Bootstrap framework

• Installing the plug-in for test driving the theme
• bootstrap-demo-source-code

Once you have all the aspects along with you, you can easily open the WordPress directory with files and navigate to the themes, which you have installed. Once you get into the directory, you have to create a folder and name it as WordPress Bootstrap and put in the folder of Twitter bootstrap. After this process, you have to create a file and name it as index.php.

Once this process is done, you have to copy the code of source from the web portal and put it in the index file that you have created. Once you are through with this process, you will be having the source code with you, which will help in creating a new WordPress Theme with twitter bootstrap.

Once you have a static page of HTML, you can move to the next step of creating the CSS page. Before creating the CSS page, it will require a specially formatted WordPress comment before the style.css page, as it uses all your Meta information regarding the site and the theme, which you are using. The folder which you have created for index.php, create another folder and name it as style.css as WordPress requires a specified style.css name so that it can work in a better manner. Once you have created the folder, you can add the file name in the comment box.

Installing the new WordPress Theme with twitter bootstrap framework

Once you are done with the detailed process of making the folders and putting in the bootstrap framework, you are now ready to check the area of admin and install the new theme. Once you login to the area of admin, check the appearance and themes installed along with it. Once you start this process, you will notice that Twitter Bootstrap theme is installed which you can select. Once you see the new WordPress theme with Twitter Bootstrap, you can activate the new theme as the current theme of your website.

(Note: If you do not want users of your website to see the new theme, which you are testing, then you must take use of the test drive plug-in for the themes, which you have selected, Theme Test Drive plugin).

Once the new WordPress theme is activated, you can visit your web portal to check how it looks like. On checking, you will surely notice that the CSS of your website is not working. Reason behind this is that, you have to convert the static file into the WordPress theme that needs to be functioned.

Process of conversion

One must understand and know that, there are certain files, which are essential elements of the WordPress themes. The files are mentioned below.

index.php
style.css
header.php
footer.php
sidebar.php

It is essential to create a new file for every WordPress theme that you are creating with Twitter Bootstrap or any other Bootstrap framework so that you can take access to them without any confusion. Creating empty files and then putting in the files related to WordPress and Bootstrap would be a good and feasible idea.

Finalization

Once all the important files are created, the working process becomes smooth in all ways. As you will be having different files with different file names and themes related to WordPress and Twitter Bootstrap, you can even download the java files and update the header and footer with ease. With different files and folders to access, you can easily keep the files of Java into the header files and update them at an instance. Remember to take use of the Java Scripts that are recommended by WordPress and Bootstrap so that you can avoid useless hassles.

Once you have created the new WordPress Theme with use of Twitter Bootstrap framework, you can activate the new theme layout, add more content, and create navigation tools for the same to get in the working order for the users of your website.

Zac Gordon have written detail article on How to Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with Bootstrap.

AtContent Plugin Review

AtContent brands your post with your name by wrapping it in a special widget allowing to read and repost publications for free or for a fee.

The plugin can be found in a free version, available on WordPress.

Why to install?

• Your content gets branded with your name. With reposts and plagiarism prevention you always get credit for your work.
• You gain full control over your content with the opportunity to block unwanted copies.
• AtContent plugin increases your site’s search ranking by getting free backlinks for every publication.
• AtContent helps you to increase your readership by getting new audience on other sites.
• Content monetization has never been so easy and diverse!

Step 1: Installation and connection

When you download  the plugin, AtContent can be installed like any other plugin. After the installation, in the left side of the dashboard the AtContent Menu appears.

The menu contains the following options:

• AtContent – here you can brand your posts and get as many backlinks as many posts you have.  Additional features – plagiarism prevention, reposts monetization, comments and notifications also available here.
• Connection – on this tab you can connect your blog to AtContent and use all its advantages.
• Known Issues – here you can turn off AtContent processing for specific pages and customize AtContent integration with other plugins.

 Connection to AtContent platform

The AtContent plugin provides all its functions only when it is connected to AtContent platform. To connect the plugin you need to click the “Connect” button from AtContent or Connection tabs.

If you do not have an AtContent account you will be asked to create one. Connect with Facebook or fill in the fields:

Once the plugin is activated and connected,you get the ability to control your content all over across the Internet, not just on your blog.

Step 2: Settings

On the AtContent tabyou can brand your posts and get backlinks by clicking “Import”.

Additional options:

• Prevent plagiarism for all posts – disable usual browser tools to copy and paste text, e.g. Ctrl+C and context menu.
• Turn on paid repost for all posts – charge your readers for reposting any your publication. Mainly, this option is for people who have lots of quality content and don’t want to give it away for free.
• Import post comments into AtContent plugin comments – this turns all comments you already have to AtContent comments. AtContent comments are visible and can be answered on any website where the publication was reposted.
• Reset all AtContent settings– brings all settings to default.

Advanced settings:

• Turn off plugin features for a main page – this turns off widget wrapping for main page posts. This is done because widgets may have improper display in non-standard WordPress themes. When you have all your posts imported or have created the first post after plugin installation, uncheck this checkbox and look at the main page of your blog. If it looks ok,  leave it, if it is not, check it again.
• Turn off plugin comments – if you do not want AtContent plugin comments, turn it off  here.
• Turn off “Share and repost and get $$$” line – to turn off the invitation to share your paid posts check this checkbox.

Importing

For instant content branding, cloud backup and backlinks it’s needed to import your blog posts to AtContent. For this you only need to click the “Import” button on a plugin settings page and wait a few minutes. After the process is done every your post must get the following panel at the bottom:

If  it did not appear, go to the settings and uncheck the “Turn off plugin features for a main page” option.

Step 3: Creating paid and paid repost publications

AtContent plugin tweaks the publication process and adds the opportunity to charge your readers for reading or reposting your posts.  Look at the AtContent  Post Settings Panel at the bottom of the usual post editor:

• Process post through AtContent API – if this option is turned off you will disable AtContent plugin for this post.
• Protect post from plagiarism – disable usual browser tools to copy and paste text, e.g. Ctrl+C and context menu.
• Post type – Free/Donate/Paid/Paid Repost.
• Import post comments into AtContent – import WordPress comments to AtContent for interaction with reposters and their readers.

If you select “Paid” type of publication, the second text field will appear on the post creation screen. The upper field if for the free part of your post. Here you should add a brief description that attracts readers to buy the full version. The lower text field is for the paid part, which cannot be seen unless a reader pays the needed amount of money.

A paid publication with expanded purchase panel is displayed below:

Donatable and  paid repost publications can be created in the same way, except you select other publication type.

Example of a donatable publication
Example of a paid publication
Example of a paid repost

Support

For AtContent you can receive support on the official support forum. You are also welcome to send your emails to mail@atcontent.com or fill in a support form.

White Label Branding for WordPress

Are you a WordPress developer or a Web Designer who uses WordPress to develop websites for your clients? Have you ever wished that it was easier to customize the menu’s and logo’s in WordPress and to decide which menu’s the users have access to? With White Label Branding for WordPress you can do exactly this. Take full control over the branding in wp-admin and decide who has access to what features. With the latest version of White Label Branding you have the ultimate tool for customizing WordPress admin and your login screen.

Detail

Automatic IceCat product information

Icecat is an open catalog, wich means that all of the data is open to everyone!

• Icecat offers data of 5938 brands
• It has a total of 1521587 datasheetsavailable
• Click here for a full list of free brands

And best of all, most of them are free!

Detail

WP Boxer Pro

A WordPress plugin that will assist in creating beautiful content boxes by using 1 simple shortcode. Each of these boxes can contain a header, an image, some content and an optional link which can point to any given location. Boxes can be added to any section in your WordPress theme that supports shortcodes, so basically anywhere.

Detail

LinkShare eStore Affiliates Plugin

LinkShare eStore Affiliates is a plugin that allows you to create a store featuring products from a wide variety of merchants, worldwide stores and more, in just minutes.

With the LinkShare Affiliates program you are given access to a wide variety of merchants and products, including Apple iTunes, Wallmart, Dell and many others. If you want to offer brand recognition and popular products on your website, Linkshare is a great choice.

Detail

White Label Branding for WordPress Multisite

Are you running a WordPress Multisite Network? Are you a WordPress developer or a Web Designer who uses WordPress to develop websites for your clients? Have you ever wished that it was easier to customize the menu’s and logo’s on each sub-site in your WordPress Multisite Network? Would you like to give each sub-site the ability to do their own branding? Look no further! This plugin let you control the branding of the main site and all sub-sites in a network of websites powered by WordPress Multisite.

Detail

Security Ninja

Security Ninja contains 19 separate security tests. Once you click the “Run Tests” button all tests will be run. Depending on various parameters of your site this can take from ten seconds to 2-3 minutes. Please don’t reload the page until testing is done.

Detail

• You’ve been contacted by a new potential client and you want to  get an idea for how well their site has been maintained
• You’re trying to diagnose server errors and want to see if an old WP version might be the cause
• You’ve come across something you haven’t seen before and want to see if it’s related to a new WP version
• Or, nefariously you might want to find sites with out of date WP installations that can be exploited
• At wp.io, we want to find out the version to include in the free WordPress site scan reports we provide (e.g. http://wp.io/site-report/www-pragmatic-web-co-uk-5-22/)

Here are on  WordPress Statistics page some charts showing what sorts of systems people are running WordPress on.
(You’ll need Javascript enabled to see them.)

We’ve found five neat ways of determining the version of a site. They don’t all work all the time but it’s rare that none will work. Here they are, in ascending order of difficulty:

1. Readme file

   The quickest and easiest way is just to look at the readme.html file which is automatically installedat the root of a WordPress site, e.g. http://wp.io/readme.html

2. Feed generator tag

   

   WordPress feed generator

   If you can’t access the readme file (and it’s blocked by the more security-conscious hosting providers like WP Engine for that very reason), your next bet is to look at the source of the site’s RSS feed – this is always found at www.yoursite.com/feed/ - e.g. www.pragmatic-web.co.uk/feed/. Often, the feed’s source XML will include a <generator> tag which will give you the version as a ?v=x.x variable – as depicted above.

3. Generator tag in HTML source

   Sometimes, you can just look at the HTML source of the page to find a generator tag like: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.5" /> - but this is very much theme-specific so you’re safer looking in the feed first.

4. Version of included files in HTML source

   This is a good one too. Look in the HTML source of a site’s homepage and there will nearly always be some script includes, a common one is the comment-reply file, which will look like this: <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.yoursite.com/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.min.js?ver=3.5'></script>. Note the ?ver=3.5 on the end of the script source. When included correctly by a theme, a version of the included file is always appended to the end of the file source URL. If no version is specified, the current WordPress version is used by default. You’ll often find other version numbers ARE included, but the comment-reply is usually just the WP version.

5. MD5 hash of publically-accessible files

   This is by far the most complex tactic, but sometimes necessary. As web software, WordPress must make at least some of its files available to browsers (stylesheets, JavaScript files, etc), for example the comment-reply script above. As WordPress evolves, over time many of these files are updated. By performing a MD5 hash of the various publicly-accessible files for different versions, it’s possible to deduce which version (or at least range of versions) a WP site is using. E.g. if one downloaded your site’s comment-reply.js file from http://www.yoursite.com/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.min.jsthen they can generate the MD5 hash of the file (which is a unique fingerprint of a particular file) and then compare that to a library of known hashes for various WP versions.

The easiest way to perform all of these checks is just to head over to wp.io and run a free site report on any WordPress site you’re interested in! wp.io connects WordPress sites, themes, users, professionals and industry benchmarks to create a unique database and network that maps the real, live world of WordPress. wp.io’s crawlers scan hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites, analyse and report on each one and then use the data connections between them to provide brand new insights into the WordPress ecosystem. wp.io offers:

• a free WordPress site scanner
• a dashboard to track and monitor your WordPress sites
• a directory of WordPress professionals
• a unique theme explorer

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What is Pharma hack:

If your website look like pharmacy related website instead of helpful Web resource or not displaying your own content on searching of keywords on Google or other search engines, Its mean your website site is effect by WordPress Pharma hack. The users when trying to search your site  with required keyword, the search engine will not display your website, it will display  pharmaceuticals companies related web pages.

According to Pearsonified: who was effect once and written a detail article on WordPress Pharma hack

The WordPress pharma hack quietly exploits your highest-ranking and most valuable pages by overriding the title tag and by inserting spammy links into the page content. Interestingly, the modified title tag and spammy links are only visible to search engines.

The three red arrows highlight <title> tags that were cloaked by the WordPress pharma hack. [Source: WordPress Pharma hack ]

This is the big lose for site owners because they tried enough to get  good traffic but they never know their traffic is not coming from search engines and traffic going down everyday because hackers have put their malicious code in your web pages that replacing your links and Google description by stealing search links.

There are lot of tutorials and articles on Preventing WordPress powered website (wparena’s: how to find remove and protect wordpress site from malware and Identifying removing and preventing malware on your WordPress site), but in today I am simple going to complie a list of useful articles and tutorials along with tips and tricks for diagnoses, fixes and prevention of  WordPress Pharma Hack.

Understanding WordPress Pharma Hack Penetration

There are different ways attackers insert the malicious code into  WordPress file to get control over the database, plugins files even on WordPress core file like adding code in .htaccess file.   According to Sucuri which can provide the best  protection service for your websites and  web servers, there are three parts for WordPress pharma hack to add malicious code:

•  Backdoor that allows the attackers to insert files and modify the database.
•  Backdoor inside one (or more) plugins to insert the spam.
•  Backdoor inside the database used by the plugins.

If you fix one of the three, but forget about the rest, you’ll most likely be reinfected and the spam will continue to be indexed.

As always, we recommend that you update your WordPress instance to the latest version. This goes for all of your plugins, themes, etc. WordPress is typically very secure, it’s when you’re running old versions, and/or out of date plugins/themes that run into trouble. Keep your stuff up to date, and it will minimize the risk of infection significantly.

[Source: Understanding and Cleaning the Pharma hack on WordPress]

For all other Web page security Golem Technologies. On the other hand, according to Pearsonified, These kind of attacks happened in two parts: There are malicious files in the WordPress plugins folder which contain identifiable PHP functions like  eval() andbase64_decode()but this kind of hack is not exception for such kind of hack. The only difference with Pharma hack inclusion, these functions stored in the WordPress database as strings, and they’re encoded backwards!  which open the backdoor for further run the string from the database. At runtime, a hack file in the plugins folder pulls these strings from the database, flips ‘em, and then runs ‘em as functions, and that’s how the deed gets done.

The hack pings Google Blog Search with queries like this one to see how many links a particular page has, and then it stores the results in the database. At runtime, the hack uses the number of links to determine which pages to target. [Source: WordPress Pharma hack ]

WordPress Pharma Hack Affects

In most (not all) cases the spammy links and/or content is cloaked or hidden from your sites visitors, it is only visible to search engine bots.  When a search engine bot makes a request for a page on your site in addition to the page being requested a search engine bot will identify itself in the user agent field.  Scripting languages such as php and javascript can read this value and determine when the request is coming from a search engine bot.

The form of the pharma hack varies from site to site, it can hit a single page or 1000s of pages, on some sites the hackers add 100s of hidden links to on-line pharmacy sites to the legitimate pages of a site.  On other sites the hackers use a cloaked or conditional hack which returns the spammy content only to a search engine bot.  Another common method is to add a php file to the site that returns the spammy content. The methods for accomplishing a pharma hack also vary from site to site, from some generic methods effective against all sites, to more specific methods that target the sites’ CMS such as WordPress or Joomla. [Source: Spam Hacks, The Pharmacy Hack, The Porn Hack]

According to websitedefender a Pharma Hack typically affects websites in three ways:
1. Results are visible on search engines only
2. Very difficult to eliminate
3. Highest ranked pages are targeted
Detail: Web security – SEO poisoning- pharma hack

Jaspal Sahota given detail WordPress Pharma hacks affacts on .htaccess file with other  vulnerabilities: Iif you know how to read .htaccess file, you’ll see that the planted code only works when the visitor is coming from Google, AOL or Yahoo):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (google|yahoo) [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (google|aol|yahoo)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (html|htm|php)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !common.php
RewriteCond /home/xyz/public_html/common.php -f
RewriteRule ^.*$ /common.php [L]
</IfModule>

Again, the final file (common.php) was planted. [Source: Pharmahack]

Protecting from WordPress Pharma Hack

There is very useful  article on WordPress prevention at FAQ_My_site_was_hacked. On the following list I have compiled a helpful articles which provide setp by step instruction about how to prevent from WordPress pharma hack attack:

How to Diagnose and Remove the WordPress Pharma Hack

You’ll have to dig through the two places where the hack is known to romp—your WordPress plugins folder and your WordPress database.

WordPress Pharma Hack

This is quite a different attack vector than say brute-forcing passwords on a WordPress site. If you know a little about what you’re doing, this is actually pretty straight forward. In fact, you can script these things pretty easily; this example was written by a hacker over a weekend.

Pharma Hack Fix for WordPress

It is really a brilliant plan.  If it weren’t so illegal - it would be perfect.  As far as I can tell, they employee a 3 stage process.  (Thanks for the help figuring this all out from my friend David, who is a super knowledgeable dude with this sort of stuff.)

How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation

Step by step process on how to completely clean out and restore a WordPress installation that has been hacked.

How to find a backdoor in a hacked WordPress

What’s a backdoor? Well, when somebody gets into your site, the very first thing that happens is that a backdoor is uploaded and installed. These are designed to allow the hacker to regain access after you find and remove him. Done craftily, these backdoors will often survive an upgrade as well, meaning that you stay vulnerable forever, until you find and clean the site up.

Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Don’t Follow

A list of the top 5 tips that most WordPress administrators do not do, but should:

How to increase the safety of WordPress

In this article we will see a series of technical and not that improve the safety of WordPress in a shared and dedicated, by changing some settings and adding the appropriate plugin.

Secure WordPress Themes providers:

Note: Be careful to make changes in this file because modifying the configuration of a server can cause security concerns if not set up properly. So Always have a Backup.

Restricting access to wp-admin

There are different ways to protect your  wp-admin. By using WordPress plugins ”Enhance WordPress security with two-factor authentication plugins” and through adding a .htaccess file into a wp-admin directory like:

By restricting the IP address and create a .htaccess file including following piece of code:

order deny,allow
allow from a.b.c.d # This is your static IP
deny from all

By restricting  the directory with a password:

AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted"
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Require valid-user
Satisfy any

Source: You can read more about Hardening WordPress website with .htaccess file

Individually Blacklist IP Address

There are considerable number of spammers, scrapers, crackers, those need to be blacklisted to visit the website. Perishable Press every year blocked some IP address and they are giving solution on how to block IP address by using .htaccess file:

<Limit GET POST PUT> order allow,deny allow from all deny from 192.168.0.10 </LIMIT>

Source: Improve site security by protecting .htaccess-files

Ultimate IP Blocker

Want to ban a IP, but don’t know how to use .htaccess and only ban for some pages? Let ipBlocker help you, ban IP(s) with a easy way and many functions, no need any database supported.

Protecting WordPress wp-config file

Josiah Cole giving solution on how to secure your own Website by editing or creating own .htaccess file in the following manners:

1. Protects itself (security)
2. Turns the digital signature off (security)
3. Limits upload size (security)
4. Protects wp-config.php (security)
5. Gives access permission to all visitors with exceptions (security, usability)
6. Specifies custom error documents (usability)
7. Disables directory browsing (security)
8. Redirect old pages to new (optional)
9. Disables image hotlinking (bandwidth)
10. Enables PHP compression (bandwidth)
11. Sets the canonical or “standard” url for your site (seo, usability)

Add the following piece of code in .htaccess file to protect he wp-config file:

# protect wpconfig.php <files wp-config.php> order allow,deny deny from all </files>

Other useful links: How To Secure WordPress configuration file

Add the following code to Disable Directory Browsing:

# disable directory browsing Options All -Indexes

 Disables image hotlinking:

#disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?wparena.com/.*$ [NC]
#RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ – [F]
#RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.wparena.com/yourimage.gif [R,L]

Source- Almost Perfect htaccess File for WordPress Blogsa

Redirect WordPress Feeds to Feedburner via .htaccess (Redux)

.htaccess is a powerful tool which also help to redirect WordPress feeds to feedburner.

Redirecting your WordPress feeds to Feedburner enables you to take advantage of their many freely provided, highly useful tracking and statistical services. Although there are a few important things to consider beforeoptimizing your feeds and switching to Feedburner, many WordPress users redirect their blog’s two main feeds — “main content” and “all comments” — using either a plugin or directly via htaccess.

For those of us using Feedburner for all content and comment feeds, we have consolidated the previous htaccess code into a single redirect. Additionally, we improve functionality by verifying the requested URI and simplifying the regex used to match the target string. Check it out:

# temp redirect wordpress content feeds to feedburner 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC] 
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpressarena [R=302,NC,L]
</IfModule>

Source: Perishable Press | How to switch RSS to feedburner in Thematic

How To Stop Image Hotlinking through .htaccess | WP Recipes

IP Delivery to Stop RSS “Content Thieves”

Quads Zilla at Seo Black Hat explained how to know IP address who is stealing your RSS Feed and how to block IP address through .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^69.16.226.12
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newfeedurl.com/feed

How to maintenance page with a. Htaccess file?

You want to migrate your blog , switch themes , or to update WordPress , why not redirect your visitors to a maintenance page.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123\.123\.123\.123
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L]

Source – CatsWhoCode | Woueb.net | Protecting the WordPress wp-admin folder

Deny no referer requests [stop spam comments!]

If there are lots of spam comments on your blog, along with akismet, you can stop spam comments with .htaccess to prevent spammers posting comments on your blog.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourblog.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

Source – How to: Deny comment posting to no referrer requests

Force “File Save As” Prompt

By using this code you can force user not to open downloadable files instead you force them to save as:

AddType application/octet-stream .avi .mpg .mov .pdf .xls .mp4

Source – AskApache: THE Ultimate Htaccess | Forcing a Download with Apache and .htaccess

Improve Site Security by Protecting HTAccess Files

Jeff Starr presents on Perishable Press different  methods to protect .htaccess file. The following code below prevents external access to any file with .htaccess. Add the code below in your domain’s root .htaccess file.

Case-sensitive protection:

# CASE SENSITIVE METHOD
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

Weak pattern matching

# WEAK PATTERN MATCHING
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>

Strong pattern matching

# STRONG HTACCESS PROTECTION
<Files ~ "^.*\.([Hh][Tt][Aa])">
order allow,deny
deny from all
satisfy all
</Files>

.htaccess – gzip and cache for faster loading and bandwidth saving

In order to speed up site and save bandwidth, you can use.htaccess file to gzip text based files and optimize cache HTTP headers.

If your hosting provider like HostGator has mod_gzip module enabled, the best way to compress your content is to add the following lines to your .htaccess file:

mod_gzip_on Yes
  mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
  mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
  mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*

Source – There are other different ways for fast loading and saving bandwidth on:
.htaccess – gzip and cache your site for faster loading and bandwidth saving
WordPress Super Cache: Makes WordPress Faster

WordPress Safer Admin Plugin

Have you ever wondered how you can hide your WordPress Admin Panel so possible attackers won’t be able to find it and gain access to your WordPress site?

If you want to ensure that no one knows where your WordPress Admin Panel is, then this WP Safer Admin Plugin is the right tool for you!

Detail

WP-Restrict

WP-Restrict is a WordPress plugin that allows WordPress admins to restrict access to their web site based on IP addresses.

Detail

Redirecting Subdirectories to the Root Directory via HTAccess

One of the most useful techniques in my HTAccess toolbox involves URL redirection using Apache’s RedirectMatch directive. With RedirectMatch, you get the powerful regex pattern matching available in the mod_alias module combined with the simplicity and effectiveness of the Redirect directive.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/.*$ http://domain.tld/target.html 

Source – Perishable Press | How to redirect the spammers where you want

Removing Category Base from WordPress URLs

The below .htaccess code illustrates 2 different ways to redirect any request for /category/slug/ to /slug/. You should only redirect after applying the php hacks described earlier, otherwise you could end up creating a loop.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/category/(.+)$ http://www.askapache.com/$1
# OR
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.askapache.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Source: AskApache

Valiantly automatically fix URL spelling mistakes

This directive can be useful to auto-correct simple spelling errors in the URL

<IfModule mod_speling.c>
CheckSpelling On
</IfModule>

Source – Vortex Mind

Redirect the spammers where you want

Here is the script to add to your WordPress blogs (or into your site’s) .htaccess file:

# block comment spam by denying access to no-referrer requests
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*wparena.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ^http://the-site-where-you-want-to-send-spammers.com/$ [R=301,L]

Easily rename your .htaccess file

# rename htaccess files AccessFileName ht.access

Source: Stupid htaccess tricks | How to redirect the spammers where you want

20 htaccess hacks to prevent your wordpress site from hacking

Make your wp-login.php page xenophobic

Here’s the code that you should be copy paste to your root .htaccess file (where wp-login.php exist).

# Redirect wp-admin and wp-login to specified address if not from specific ip
# Btw you're free to add additional directory as you see fit
# Note: This'll break your site if you have plugins/themes that depend on accessing admin-ajax.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} wp-login|wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123.456.789.
RewriteRule . http://www.domain.com/ [R,L]

# Or .. if you prefer to return 404 Not found instead of redirecting it, use below code instead
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} wp-login.php|wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^123.456.789.
RewriteRule . - [R=404,L]

Source – Hardening WordPress with Mod Rewrite and htaccess | 7 Tools For Fighting Spam In WordPress

The easiest way to ban a WordPress spammer

Require password for 1 file

<Files login.php>
   AuthName "Prompt"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /home/askapache.com/.htpasswd
   Require valid-user
</Files>

<FilesMatch "^(exec|env|doit|phpinfo|w)\.*$">
   AuthName "Development"
   AuthUserFile /.htpasswd
   AuthType basic
   Require valid-user
</FilesMatch>

Source: ultimate htaccess code snippets

Speed up your site by compressing and caching your content with .htaccess

In the following series you can compress and cache your site content with Apache and .htaccess file.

<ifModule mod_deflate.c>
  <filesMatch "\.(css|js|x?html?|php)$">
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </filesMatch>
</ifModule>

<ifModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 600 seconds"
</ifModule>

<ifModule mod_headers.c>
  <filesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
  </filesMatch>
  <filesMatch "\.(css)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
  </filesMatch>
  <filesMatch "\.(js)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, private"
  </filesMatch>
  <filesMatch "\.(x?html?|php)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=600, private, must-revalidate"
  </filesMatch>
</ifModule>

Turn etags off

<ifModule mod_headers.c>
  Header unset ETag
</ifModule>
FileETag None

Remove last-modified header

<ifModule mod_headers.c>
  Header unset Last-Modified
</ifModule>

Source: More on compressing and caching your site with .htaccess

Performance Optimizer Plugin for WordPress

The plugin will help you increase the performance of your WordPress website. We aim to do this by optimizing key features of the website’s loading process thus increasing the loading speed and limiting the bandwidth consumption.

Detail

References and other Useful Resource:

Protect your WordPress site .htaccess
Using htaccess Files for Pretty URLS
Web security: what is an .htaccess file
How to protect and secure your WordPress site
A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks
Comprehensive guide to .htaccess
Introduction to .htaccess
Forcing a Download with Apache and .htaccess
Hardening WordPress with htaccess

.htaccess Builder

To quickly and effortlessly deliver an htaccess file without having to remember anything about the apache server language used to construct the htaccess file!

htaccess Builder! is complete as is – however – depending on requests and sales it has the potential to grow to cover just about every function of htaccess.

Detail

If your site is infected, I cab help and assist you with removing Malware from your server and can clean up your WordPress site (Request at Wparena’s Facebook page and like it ). Even we can do basic penetration test free of cost to tell you about Valnurabilities in your WordPress powered Website.

Identifying Malware on WordPress Powered Website

There are different ways that can help you to identify Malware on your website. If you see any issue with Malware  on your site, first of all change your FTP, Admin, and database password and than try to use some online tools like Sucuri, Stop Badware and antiphishing to know more about latest threats and Malware.

Google Safe Browsing Diagnostics tool can help you to check vulnerabilities in your site and provide you the next step about protecting your site, detail you can read on  How to Identifying removing and preventing malware WordPress site.

Next you can use WordPress plugins to check about Malwares on your website, but before using these plugins do foolowing steps to make it more secure. Update all your installed Plugins, Test all Links on your site to make sure that your site not linking to site which contain Malware. All these checking you should don on Virtual Machine, so your actually Machine not be infected during any test. If you are not sure how to do that ask on  Wparena’s Facebook page or you can request in Comment to do it for you.

Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner

Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner is an excellent tool to check any Vulnerability in your site. The recent Timthumb.php vulnerability (discussed here) has left scores of unsuspecting bloggers hacked. It’s the perfect combination of not so easy to fix for the technically disinclined, and easy to find and exploit for the malicious – resulting in a disastrous number of compromised sites.

Regina Smola from wpsecuritylock, has explained about this Plugin and Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner plugin will scan your entire wp-content directory for instances of any outdated and insecure version of the timthumb script, and give you the option to automatically upgrade them with a single click. Doing so will protect you from hackers looking to exploit this particular vulnerability.

As well Elegant Themes authors provide a security patch and updates in their themes which use image re-sizing script called Timthumb, so their themes are more secure now. Woo Themes authors also update and mention the Security Flaw in their themes.

Detail

Exploit Scanner

Search the files and database of your WordPress install for signs that may indicate that it has fallen victim to malicious hackers. 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. How To Detect Malware in WordPress Using Exploit Scanner.

Detail

There is a huge list of Security Plugins to Protect Your WordPress Site, but few best one are complied by Jules on Quertime Editorial and inspired by Techlila. More Secure Plugins for WordPress: Security Ninja

Reversing engineering to a malware wordpress theme

Removing Malware from WordPress website

Make a COMPLETE and CLOSE review of your ENTIRE content and replace suspect files with fresh ones from trusted sources. Always keep 3rd party Plugins and theme up to date to minimize the risk of security issues as good as possible. Regularly check your content so you might notice unauthorized modifications pretty soon yourself because when notes of this type get overhand we will charge an admin fee for our additional work.

After finding any suspicious and malware infected ads, links, Posts or piece of code in your file, image or in script, remove all of them. If you are sure that your site has been hacked, Follow the steps provided by Go Daddy to get back it online:

• Take the site offline to avoid putting site visitors and customers at risk.
• Remove all offending code. This is only effective long-term in conjunction prevention.
• Fix underlying security vulnerabilities to prevent future attacks.
• Check for and remove “back doors” left by the hacker. A back door allows the hacker future access even after you secure the site.
• Check for and install updates, and research the software you are using to find out if other users have been affected.

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Other Resources:

Beginners Guide on How to Remove Malware Scripts and Files
How to Remove malware from website
How to Identifying removing and preventing malware WordPress site

In case if you Machine is infected with Malware you can get help from Different approaches to removing malware.

Protect Website from Malware

Finally all you have to protect your site for further attack and the best tool is the prevention. Try to keep upto date all your Plugins, Theme and Core WordPress and use scanners that can detect vulnerabilities. Before putting any ad or link on your site make sure its not distributing any  Malware and monitor them regularly. As well make sure user generated contents are no containing exploit links to Malware and they are clean for visitors without any suspicious link and executable files.

For maximum security please ensure your account password is secure (at least 6 mixed numbers and letters) and that it is changed regularly. Ensure that permissions for your folders are set to 755 and for files it is set as 644. Also check that no folders have insecure permissions such as 777.

For a password to be strong, it should:

•  Be at least seven characters long. Because of the way passwords are encrypted, the most secure passwords are 6-12characters long.
•  Have at least one symbol character in the second through sixth positions.
• Be significantly different from prior passwords.
• Not contain your name or user name.
• Not be a common word or name.

Other Resources:

Tips for Cleaning & Securing Your Website
How do I protect my website from malware
How to Protect a Website From Malware
How to get rid of code injected Malware on your website
How to Protect Your Website from Malware and Virus Attacks
How to Identifying removing and preventing malware WordPress site
5 Powerful Anti-Malware WordPress Tools

If you have any issue with your WordPress powered Website ask us on Wparena’s Facebook page.

Creating a New Custom-login Page

First of  all create a new php template with “custom-login.php” name and upload it in WordPress Theme folder ( wparena.com/wp-content/themes/your-theme). Add following code before uploading or after uploading you can edit your page and add the codes.

I am not sharing my piece of code because my client have some restriction. Although  Oliver Dale have explained how-to-create-a-custom-login-page-for-your-wordpress-theme, but I am sharing Kannan‘s code from his post “Custom WordPress login without using a plugin“. There are few reason to mention Kannan’s work, first of all he use jQuery  to show login error messages without page-refresh and redirect to the homepage when he is not login.

Full Code Preview of Custom login Template

< ?php
/*
Template Name: Custom Login
*/
global $user_ID;

if (!$user_ID) {

if($_POST){
//We shall SQL escape all inputs
$username = $wpdb->escape($_REQUEST['username']);
$password = $wpdb->escape($_REQUEST['password']);
$remember = $wpdb->escape($_REQUEST['rememberme']);

if($remember) $remember = “true”;
else $remember = “false”;
$login_data = array();
$login_data['user_login'] = $username;
$login_data['user_password'] = $password;
$login_data['remember'] = $remember;
$user_verify = wp_signon( $login_data, true );

if ( is_wp_error($user_verify) )
{
echo “<span class=”error”>Invalid username or password. Please try again!</span>”;
exit();
} else
{
echo “<script type=”text/javascript”>window.location=’”. get_bloginfo(‘url’) .”‘</script>”;
exit();
}
} else {

get_header();

?>
<div id=”container”>
<div id=”content”>

<!–?php the_title(); ?–>
<div id=”result”></div>

<!– To hold validation results –>
<form id=”wp_login_form” action=”" method=”post”>

<label>Username</label>
<input type=”text” name=”username” class=”text” value=”">
<label>Password</label>
<input type=”password” name=”password” class=”text” value=”">
<label>
<input name=”rememberme” type=”checkbox” value=”forever”>Remember me</label>
<input type=”submit” id=”submitbtn” name=”submit” value=”Login”>
</form>

<script type=”text/javascript”>
$(“#submitbtn”).click(function() {

$(‘#result’).html(‘<img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/loader.gif” class=”loader” />’).fadeIn();
var input_data = $(‘#wp_login_form’).serialize();
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: “<?php echo “http://” . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>”,
data: input_data,
success: function(msg){
$(‘.loader’).remove();
$(‘
<div>’).html(msg).appendTo(‘div#result’).hide().fadeIn(‘slow’);
}
});
return false;

});
</script>
</div>
</div>

<!–?php

get_footer();
}
}
else {
echo “<script type=’text/javascript’–>window.location=’”. get_bloginfo(‘url’) .”‘”;
}
?>

Because we are using jQuery, so never foregt to add jQuery library in your header.php file as follow

jQuery library in header.php file

<script src=”http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.4.js”>< / script>
</pre>
<h2>Step7: Adding jQuery’s ajax function</h2>
<pre name=”code” class=”javascript”>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
$(“#submitbtn”).click(function() {

$(‘#result’).html(‘<img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/loader.gif” class=”loader” />’).fadeIn();
var input_data = $(‘#wp_login_form’).serialize();
$.ajax({
type: “POST”,
url: “< ?php echo “http://” . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>”,
data: input_data,
success: function(msg){
$(‘.loader’).remove();
$(‘
<div>’).html(msg).appendTo(‘div#result’).hide().fadeIn(‘slow’);
}
});
return false;

});
</script>

Add New Blank Page

After uploding your new page template, go to “New Page” under pages from the WordPress Deshboard. Name the page as your own choice and select the template type from Template list “Custom Login”  and Publish it. Now you can add this page wherever you want for further instruction read this post WordPress Shortcode with loop, meta, category, pagination, Gallery and Plugins

Customize the WordPress Login Screen Logo

You can replace the WordPress logo from WordPress login page by replacing “logo-login.png” image file. Login to hosting via ftp and brows /wp-admin/images/ and replace with your own logo but the name must be same. You have to change the image link as open wp-login.php file and change following line according to your own url.

<div id=”login”><h1><a href=”<?php echo esc_url( apply_filters(‘login_headerurl’, ‘http://wparena.om/’) ); ?>” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( apply_filters(‘login_headertitle’, __( ‘WordPress Arena’ ) ) ); ?>”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a>

You can customized the WordPress login screen by using the following WordPress Plugins.

White Label Branding for WordPress Multisite

Are you running a WordPress Multisite Network? Are you a WordPress developer or a Web Designer who uses WordPress to develop websites for your clients? Have you ever wished that it was easier to customize the menu’s and logo’s on each sub-site in your WordPress Multisite Network? Would you like to give each sub-site the ability to do their own branding? Look no further! This plugin let you control the branding of the main site and all sub-sites in a network of websites powered by WordPress Multisite.

Live preview | Detail

Pathway – Custom WordPress Login Page

Are you bored default wordpress login page ? Pathway let you customize your wordpress login page, You can customize unlimited design from the admin options, and bring to your clients a new login page design.

Live preview | Detail

Wp Nice Screen Login – Customize Admin Login Page

WP Nice Screen Login is the final solution to customize the “Wordpress Admin Login Page”. You can choose from 5 default themes to redesign the Login Page, and bring to your clients a new professional page to login

Detail

Login Logo

This plugin allows you to customize the logo on the WordPress login screen. There is zero configuration. You just drop the logo file into your WordPress content directory, namedlogin-logo.png and this plugin takes over.

Detail

Custom Login

Activate this plugin and customize your WordPress login screen. Use the built-in and easy to use settings page to do the work for you. Theres no need to understand CSS at all! Now featureing a HTML & CSS box for advanced users to up the customization!

1. Works great for client site installs.
2. Comes with a Photoshop template included in the library files (default theme).
3. Read more about the Custom Login Plugin & most recent blog post.

Detail

WordPress Admin Colors & Branding

Customise the WordPress admin interface with you own color scheme and logos. Perfect for delivering a white label WordPress for clients and customers. This is the only plugin available that allows dynamic color choice for the admin interface, designed specifically for WordPress 3.2 and WordPress 3.3.

Detail

Ninety Ajax Login/Register for WordPress

Our Sidebar Login/Register plugin for WordPress does exactly what it says on the tin; Logins and Registrations with a touch of AJAX magic. Simple! It also has a nice ‘logged in’ view, and a lost password form for those forgetful folk.

Detail

Single Sign-On For Magento And WordPress

Scenario where you’d want to use this extension:
You are creating a website, or own a website, that is built using a mixture of Magento and WordPress. It may be that WordPress is used to manage pages and a blog, while Magento is used purely for it’s e-commerce functionality. Or perhaps all your pages and e-commerce functionality are managed through Magento, and WordPress is simply there as a blog platform.

Detail

Other Resources:

How to Change WordPress Login Page
Create a custom login page in WordPress
How to Create a Custom Page in WordPress
WordPress Tips and Tricks – Custom Login Page
How to Create a Custom Login Experience for WordPress Subscribers
How to Create and use Custom Page Template in WordPress to Create a Sales Page

Shortcodes were introduced in WordPress 2.5, and allowed the Gallery feature allows the option to add an image gallery to a Post or Page on your WordPress blog. but now you can us shortcode for your theme by using WordPress plugins and can create your own function to display requires result. I was working on my client web site and was required to display one category post on a specific page, I tried few plugins but did not get the proper result so one of blog fellow have given a solution on Simple Recent Posts Shortcodes for WordPress, which help me a lot and here is my code for The Corporation WordPress Theme:

<?php
function my_recent_posts_shortcode($atts){

global $post;

$myposts = get_posts(“showposts=5&category=32″);
foreach($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>

<img width=”120″ height=”120″ <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<div class=”latest_news_box”>
<h3><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<p><?php the_content_limit(520); ?></p>
</div>
<?php
endforeach;
}
?>

There are different requirement to display content on your blog, Kevin Chard have wriiten lot of usage of shortcode on his blog. You see shorcode usage on the following link: wpsnipp/shortcode. and  Filip Stefansson, the Founder and editor of WP-Snippets, explained in detail about shortcode usage on this link: Getting Started with WordPress Shortcodes (+Examples).

WordPress Plugins for Shortcode

Slider gallery shortcode

This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress. With this new shortcode, you can create a slider gallery in seconds just by typing while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will display the images that you have uploaded to the current post or page.

If you need more options, this simple shortcode features multiple attributes that you can set. You can:

• add controls to go back and forward through each slide
• select an specific transition between images (fade, zoom, scroll, curtains, grow, toss and many more)
• show the image title
• set the size of the images displayed in the slider
• wrap the image with a link to the image file
• adjust the transition speed
• set the pause between transitions
• set the initial delay before the first transition
• exclude some selected images.

TitanEditor – The Shortcode Editor On Steroids

Features

• Drag and drop Functionality – Drag, drop, move or delete your short-codes until your satisfied.
• Page template Manager – No more messing around inside your default pages and posts, create your own page templates filled with short-codes.
• Button shortcode editor – Create as many button styles and shapes you want.
• Most common shortcodes included – Buttons, tabs, accordion, toggle, slider, images, columns, lists, message boxes, video, quotes, separator, blog elements, galleria and pre/code
• Quick fill – After adding your columns your able to fill them all by just one click.
• TitanEditor Page Attributes – After creating your page template and you’ve filled and rearranged all components then just create a new page and select your page template from the TitanEditor Page Attributes window and your done.
• Clever editing – Not happy after seeing your freshly baked page, then just select the template through TitanEditor and edit it, TitanEditor remembers where you have left and opens the page just as you left it.
• Screencasts Included – Watch the videos for full instructions on how to use the editor, once your used to it you never return to the wp-editor ever again.
• Blog Post compatible – Your also able to create a nice looking blog post that looks different then any other blog post. Just create a page template ad your content through the editor and assign this page template to that blog post.
• Editors Option Panel – A option panel from where you can enable or diasble the stylings, so if you want to use your own then you only need to disable it.

Tabbed Content Shortcode

A clean, easy to integrate, reusable tabbed content area for your WordPress themes!

Features

• Reusable , add as many as you want on the page!
• Easy to use, activate and copy-paste the sample shortcodes to begin
• Auto sizing on a tab by tab basis
• Help and information admin page
• Easy to integrate into any design

SWS: Nivo add-on for Styles With Shortcodes

Styles with Shortcodes is a great plugin that makes life easier using WordPress whether you are a seasoned developer, designer or just a normal user!

Live preview | Detail

Shortcodes Ultimate

With this plugin you can easily create buttons, boxes, different sliders and much, much more. Turn your free theme to premiun in just a few clicks. Using Shortcodes Ultimate you can quickly and easily retrieve many premium themes features and display it on your site. See screenshots for more information.

Detail

Display Posts Shortcode

The Display Posts Shortcode was written to allow users to easily display listings of posts without knowing PHP or editing template files.

Detail

Category Post Shortcode

This plugin allow you to display post list in your page or post by using shortcode.

Detail

List category posts

The shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can also display the post author, date, excerpt, custom field values, even the content! The [catlist] shortcode can be used as many times as needed with different arguments on each post/page.

Detail

Category Shortcode

This plugin creates the [Category]] Shortcode. The code takes 5 arguments:
number: the number of posts to display. 0 equals the default number. -1 equals the total available.

Detail

Available shortcodes for WordPress Hosted Blog

Miscellaneous | Video | Images and Documents | Audio

Detail

In case, you are using WordPress for your client or have made lots of customizations on core WordPress files, then might not want this message to displayed, because it will overwrite all the files and client site will lost all the changes.

So there are few option to hide it from dashboard through some function adding in function.php file, by using  WordPress plugin to hide this message and manually removing the code from WordPress core file. Different bloggers had provided the solution on their bog like like as follow:

1. Just Open functions.php file from wordpres theme and put following code in that file: (from wordpressapi)

add_action('admin_menu','hide_update_message');
function hide_update_message()
{
remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
remove_filter( 'update_footer', 'core_update_footer' );
}

2. All you have to do is simply open the theme’s functions.php file and add this: (wpbeginner)

add_action('admin_menu','wphidenag');
function wphidenag() {
remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
}

3. To get rid of the “Please update now” message in your WordPress dashboard, simply paste the following code on your functions.php file. (wprecipes)

if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_users' ) ) {
  add_action( 'init', create_function( '$a', "remove_action( 'init', 'wp_version_check' );" ), 2 );
  add_filter( 'pre_option_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;" ) );
}

4. You can optionally put this code with a condition so that the update message will only be shown to the site admin or other user roles depending of the if-statement in the code snippet below. (fredrikmalmgren)

function hideUpdateNag() {
    remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
}
if ( !current_user_can('activate_plugins') ) {
    add_action('admin_menu','hideUpdateNag');
}

5. Removing the update message is very straightforward to do – simply add the following lines of code to your functions.php file:(vooshthemes)

remove_action('wp_version_check', 'wp_version_check');
remove_action('admin_init', '_maybe_update_core');
add_filter('pre_transient_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;"));

All the above almost do the same thing, If still not satisfied requirments you can use WordPress Plugin to hide “WordPress Upgrade Message” from users and clients dashboard.

Hide Update Reminder

This plugin allows you to hide the update WordPress reminder from all users that are not assumed Administrators (cannot upgrade plugins).

If you have multiple users then this means those who are not admins don’t need to see the message. Useful for CMS based sites, so the client doesn’t see the notice.

Detail

If you want to display notifications to your user when you update something or when you wish to make an announcement. The plugin
“WP update notifier“ is simple yet effective and extremely usefull.

Disable WordPress Core Update

Completely disables the core update checking system in WordPress. The plugin prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed in the admin area. Ideal for administrators of multiple WordPress installations.

Detail

All you have to play with the design and one image that fit with your design. A tutorial by DAN CEDERHOLM explained step by step procedure. Here is my CSS lines which I  get after modification.  Due to my client, I am unable to   provide the link of this implementation but still you can get idea from my code.

/* ======= index page cat. display ===================*/
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1110px;
}
.cat_a {
display:block;
color: #FFF!important;
background-image:url(‘cat-tab-bg.png’);
min-height:40px;
padding-top:10px;
padding-left:10px;

}
.cat_a:hover, .hov_sh:hover {
text-shadow:2px 2px 2px #661111;
text-decoration:none;
}

.cat_ico {
float:right;
position:relative;
top:-11px;
}

#faux {
background: url(‘cat-bg.png’);
margin-bottom: 5px;
overflow: auto; /* Paul O Brien Fix for IE www.pmob.co.uk */
width: 100%
}

#leftcolumn {
display: inline;
width:264px;
padding:0px;
float:left;
margin: 0px 10px 10px 10px;
position:relative;
}
#leftmiddle {
display: inline;
padding: 0px;
width: 275px;
float: left;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
position:relative;

}
#rightmiddle {
display: inline;
width: 270px;
float: left;
margin-left:12px;
position:relative;

}
#rightcolumn {
display: inline;
position: relative;
padding: 0px;
width: 256px;
float: left;
margin-left: 13px;

}
.clear { clear: both; background: none; }

In case if you are not satisfied with above solution, here I am compiling a list of resources where you can get more infor about how to get Equal Height Columns with jQuery and CSS.

Tutorials: equal Height Columns with jQuery

Tutorials:How jQuery Works

A basic introduction to jQuery and the concepts that you need to know to use it.

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Equal Height Columns with jQuery

This concept has been adapted into a full-fledged jQuery plugin. Check it out here. And then read on to learn how this technique is done.

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jQuery equal height columns plugin

 If you are looking for a plugin which will calculate the heightest column and than assign that height to the rest of the panels than you should visit: Equal Height Columns with jQuery.

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Quick hits with the Flexible Box Model

I’d bet that you’ve done your fair share of styling elements to be arranged horizontally or vertically on a page. As of yet, though, CSS has lacked a suitable mechanism for this task. Enter the CSS3 Flexible Box Module, or Flexbox for short.

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Equal height – javascript

Many people have problems getting the heights of their divs the same length. There are good, valid, ways of doing this with only CSS. This isn’t one of them. This uses javascript to find out which div is the longest and then set the others to be the same length as that one.

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Making DIVs, using the CSS “Float Left” property, all have uniform heights;

Would you believe that was the best title I could come up with? Honestly, if you can think of a better one shoot me a line – I want to hear from you.

Okay, I’m a big fan of Fluid Design. I love to design websites/webapps that flow into the space available, from giant screened desktops to mobile phones, and always look like they were designed with exactly that screen size in mind.

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Elixon Fixheight

Creating equal height columns with CSS is not as easy as it may first seem. Elixon FixHeight is a solution that works in all common web browsers.

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jQuery: Boxes of Equal Height

Ever had parallel boxes on a website you’re developing, and wanted them to have the same height, but still wanting them to have dynamic height, i.e. not having to lock them to a certain height in the CSS? I certainly have, and it’s usually difficult. But jQuery provides a simple sollution!

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Tutorials: equal Height Columns with CSS

Equal Height Columns with Cross-Browser CSS

Creating equal height columns with CSS is not as easy as it may first seem. This tutorial highlights the display problems that occur with multiple column layouts, and then shows a simple solution that works in all common web browsers. The method shown here is 100% CSS hack-free, image-free and JavaScript-free so it can even be used on the most strictly coded websites.

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Nesting sites expanding

Russian language article: he will give way to layout the sprawling site (and others, as it turned out, I do not know how to typeset), which use the last 2-3 years. This method is used for complex modular networks, it is easy to use, but difficult to understand and it has several drawbacks. In general, the information here useful and web designers, since the very model of the site must be properly prepared.

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Faux Columns by DAN CEDERHOLM

One of the somewhat frustrating properties of CSS is the fact that elements only stretch vertically as far as they need to. Meaning, if a 200-pixel tall image is contained within a<div>, the <div> will only expand down the page 200 pixels.

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Fluid Width Equal Height Columns

Equal height columns have been a need of web designers forever. If all the columns share the same background, equal height is irrelevant because you can set that background on a parent element. But if one or more columns need to have their own background, it becomes very important to the visual integrity of the design.

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Equal Height Blocks in Rows

There are plenty of solutions for equal height columns using jQuery (like this one by Rob Glazebrook). The basic idea is to measure all of their heights and then set all their heights to that of the tallest one.

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50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)

Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community.

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WordPress Theme Development Tutorials

Creating a Subscription Site Using WordPress

This is a great WordPress tutorial for beginners to intermediate users who want to learn how to easily and effectively create subscription sites and use WordPress as a content-management-system.

• create and personalize the WordPress registration page and login page
• create custom registration fields in order to gather information tailored to your site
• create new post types and post type templates for your premium content
• and restrict content to only registered users and redirect all others

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WordPress, Beginner to Master

Throughout this six-part beginner-to-master series, we’ll be using the advanced features of WordPress to create our own portfolio & blog, complete with an options page, multiple styles and support for the new WordPress features.

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Deploy Your WordPress Blog to the Cloud

For the last decade, hosting a large scale web application has been a daunting task, reserved only for experts. Not anymore; when Amazon opened its server architecture, everything changed. Computer hardware moved to the cloud, and became available to any and all developers. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress in the cloud.

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User Friendly Short Codes with TinyMCE

WordPress short codes are everywhere: in practically every theme and many, many plugins. They are extremely useful and provide huge amounts of extra functionality. With all of their greatness, however, there is one major problem with them: they are not very user friendly, particularly for users who are not familiar with programming, especially when a short code accepts more than one parameter. So, in order to help the non-users, we need a new solution.

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HTML5 WordPress Music Player & Settings Page Integration

This music player has finally made its way to WP! The design was originally created by Orman Clark after which Saleem from Codebase Hero created a jQuery plugin out of it.

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HTML5 and Dreamweaver Websites

Lawrence Turton, expert instructor in all things HTML5 -related, guides us step by step through creating a complete website using the latest web technologies. And for those of you dragging your feet on learning the latest features of Dreamweaver CS5 and 5.5, Lawrence shows us how DW integrates in with all this emerging coolness taking over the web. Here’s some of the highlights of what you’ll learn….

How To Create Tabs On WordPress Settings Pages

Using tabs in a user interface can help you better organize content, so it’s only natural that WordPress themes that have a lot of options would benefit from tabs on their settings page. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tabbed settings page, and you’ll get to download a WordPress theme that implements the code.

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Load Next WordPress Posts With AJAX

How to replace the standard “Older Posts” links on your blog. Our plugin will create a button toinstantly load the next page of posts, without reloading the page (Similar to what Twitter used to do at the bottom of profiles)

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WordPress as a CMS -Part 1, Part 2 and  Part 3

When most people think about WordPress, they think about blogs. If you look at the front page of WordPress.org, they talk a lot about blogging as well. What they don’t tell you is that WordPress can also double as a very powerful CMS ; you just have to set it up properly. It can be a bit tricky to get setup and working the way that you want; but this is where I come in.

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Building Your WordPress Website with iPad in Mind

How you could get your WordPress website looking great on an iPhone, now it’s time to take a look at how you can get it looking fantastic on an iPad. iPad users interact with their devices quite differently to how desktop and laptop users interact with theirs.

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How to Display an Admin Notice For Required Theme Plugins

Typically build all the functionality needed directly into each theme I release, but sometimes it makes sense to refer to a 3rd party plugin to achieve what you are looking to do. For instance, most of my video-centric themes require the Press75 “Simple Video Embedder” plugin for embedding videos within each post. In my opinion.

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Customizing the WordPress Dashboard For Your Clients

Have you recently started using WordPress for your client’s project and want to further impress your client with better packaging? This article will focus on packaging WordPress so that, in just few minutes after completion of a project, it will feel more unique to the client and not have the generic feel.

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Create Perfect Emails For Your WordPress Website

Whatever type of website you operate, its success will probably hinge on your interaction with your audience. If executed well, one of the most effective tools can be a simple email.

WordPress users are in luck, since WordPress already has easy-to-use and extendable functions to give you a lot of power and flexibility in handling your website’s emails.

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WordPress Custom Fields 101: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Now we will go into sharing some of the cool tips, tricks, and hacks for custom fields. Custom fields are limited to your imagination only, so there are tons of cool tricks that we might miss.

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Add a Customizable Header image to your WordPress Theme

WordPress 3.0 brought a host of new features with it and one was the ability to change your theme header from within the admin panel, under the “appearance” tab and was built into the TwentyTen theme. What if you want to add this functionality to your own theme ? Thankfully it’s pretty easy to do by adding some custom code to your theme’s functions.php file.

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Useful and Time Saving WordPress Code Snippets

Coding in wordpress is pretty state of the art and the code and logic behind the wp theme is much the same. So you can use many source codes and snippets to save your time while coding for wordpress. We are going to share with you some useful wordpress code snippets to save your time and you can design a great wordpress theme with these handy and ready to work code snippets. So build yourwordpress plugins or theme with these ready made code snippets.

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How to Display Ads Only to Search Engine Visitors in WordPress

From our experience and research of many industry experts, it seems that Search Engine visitors are more likely to click on targeted advertisements then your regular readers. In this article, we will share a technique that will let you make more money from your blogs by simply displaying ads to your Search Engine Visitors ONLY. Whereas your regular visitors do not see these ads. This works very well with targeted Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ad units such as Google Adsense.

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Killer hacks to enhance WordPress editor

When you’re a blogger, the editor is indeed something very important because it is the tool used to write your posts. In this article, I’m going to show you some hacks and tips to enhance WordPress editor. Enjoy!

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Turn your commenters into subscribers!

Only a small percentage of your visitors leave a comment. This group of people is probably also interested in subscribing to your newsletter, if you have one.

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Hosting Client Sites on a WordPress Network

Regular updates keep WordPress secure and expand the feature set, ensuring the platform meets both the developer’s and their client’s needs.

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How to Add “delete” and “spam” Buttons to Your Comments

Comment section in a site is really important. It represent interaction between you and your readers. It also keeps posts alive and is an important indicator of a popular post.

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Move WordPress Admin Bar to the Bottom

Not everybody likes the WordPress Admin Bar, which exists since WordPress 3.1, at the top of the browser. With just a bit CSS you can change it. The following function provides CSS directly in the footer of backend and frontend. It displays the Admin Bar at the bottom.

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20 Helpful WordPress SQL Queries Snippets

WordPress keeps every single scrap of information that is fed into it in a MySQL database, whether that be posts, pages, comments, blogroll, the plugin settings… everything. Yes, the WordPress admin backend is fantastic and it does allow you to control and edit all aspects of this information with ease. Up to a certain point anyway.

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Speeding Up Your WordPress Website: 11 Ways to Improve Your Load Time

It’s an important question, particularly for businesses who want to scale their website. Of course, the procedures necessary for speeding up your website are going to differ depending on whether you have a site the size of something like WPMU.org or a lamoid little homepage like my own.

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How to Embed Google Talk Chatback on Your WordPress Site for Live Support

Making live chat available on your website is a strategy that has been shown to dramatically increase sales. Customers appreciate the ability to get in touch with you instantly.

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Comment Form Hooks Visualized

Most themes (e.g. TwentyTen) use the comment_form() function to insert the comment form after posts. There are quite some hooks inside the function but they are hard to localize. The codex documentation isn’t too helpful, neither.
To give you an easy overview the following diagrams visualize the points where the various hooks are anchored. The number of available hooks depend on the discussion settings and the user’s capabilities.

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Admin Bar Tricks

there are many awesome ways to make it do virtuallywhatever you want. In this DigWP post, we round up a ton of tips, tricks, and plugins for ultimately mastering the WordPress Admin Bar.

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How to Add Post Thumbnails to the WordPress Post and Page Management Screens

If you’re producing a lot of content on your WordPress site, it can be handy to see the main image associated with each post when viewing the post or page listing screen. Adding in the post thumbnail creates a visual association for each post or page.

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Adding Input Fields To Comment Form

Most comment forms contain the same input fields: Name, Email, URL and the comment text field. This is sufficient for most use cases but there are situations where you might want to know a bit more about your commenter: their age, the city they live in, or the color of their underwear. This article explains how to add an input field, store the data in the database and how to display the additional data in your blog if your theme uses the comment_form() function provided by WordPress.

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How to Sync A Local & Remote WordPress Blog Using Version Control

Ever wondered how you might use Version Control with WordPress? If you prefer to work on your WordPress projects locally but have to get them to sync remotely, this tutorial is for you. You have probably tried to synchronize between the two setups by manually uploading the changed files and using PHPmyAdmin to export and import your database once changed, and (very likely) broke something in the process.

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WordPress Plugins Related Tips and Tutorials

WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugins are PHP scripts that alter your website. The changes could be anything from the simplest tweak in the header to a more drastic makeover (such as changing how log-ins work, triggering emails to be sent, and much more).

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Best examples of jQuery Sliders Effects and WordPress Plugins

jQuery are the best way to display your row images to present to your visitors. There are lots of option and customization that can create very simple, beautiful and good looking image sliders. Yesterday I written a tutorial on HOW TO: Create A Vertical Scrolling News Ticker on WordPress With jQuery Carousel.

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HOW TO: Create A Vertical Scrolling News Ticker on WordPress With jQuery Carousel

I had to design a Vertical Scrolling news ticker for my client. Initially,  I thought it’s hard to figure it out, but thanks to a tutorial “ Create A Vertical Scrolling News Ticker With jQuery and jCarousel Lite“.  I learnt from this tutorial along with other and  modified  the code and made it into something I wanted, hope this would help you too.

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How to Convert Plugins to Use Custom Post Types

If you’re a plugin developer whose been using custom tables for storing information in WordPress the transition to custom post types may be daunting.

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Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know

Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordPress over other alternatives.

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How to: Create a Dashboard Feed Reader for Your WordPress Theme or Plugin

Dashboard widgets in WordPress are actually meta boxes. They’re used in other places too, like the Edit Post or Page screen. They can be dragged around, shown or hidden from the Screen Options menu, collapsed and expanded by hitting the tiny arrow on the right side of the box titles. But hey, you should probably know that already!

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Essential Plugins for Every WordPress Installation

One of the reasons why people gravitate toward WordPress is the seemingly unlimited numbers of open source plugins available. Today, I’d like to go over a few plugins that I think absolutely warrant your attention. I’m sure I’ve missed some, though, so make sure to chime in within the comments! Hopefully, this article will morph into an absolute monster of a list that can act as a reference for fellow WordPress developers.

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How to create your own WordPress functionality plugin

A common, yet unfortunate practice in the WordPress community involves filling themefunctions.php files with tweaks and functionality that is key to a site. The reason this is a bad idea, in short, is that it will tie your critical site functionality to a theme that will eventually change. Good news, though: there is a much better, smarter alternative. It’s called a functionality plugin.

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How To Improve Your WordPress Plugin’s Readme.txt

If you’re a plugin developer and you just love to write code, then writing a readme.txt file for a plugin in WordPress’ repository might be your idea of hell. When you’ve written all of that lovely code, why must you spend time writing about how to use it?

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9 Ways of Showing WordPress Plugin Authors our Gratitude

WordPress is one of the biggest website platforms used in the world. Its official plugin directory lists more than 13,000 plugins, but there are also more of them available on the internet. Even if these plugins are for the major part free, the investment in terms of time for those who created them, and continued to support and fixing them is huge.

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WordPress Security Related

How to Get Better WordPress Security

If you have a WordPress powered website, then security should be of utmost importance. WordPress now powers more than 50 million websites, making it a target the same way hackers target Windows computers. You know you’re “mainstream” once you start becoming a (worthwhile) target. You can see that from the second announcement this year that thousands of WordPress websites were hacked.

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How to protect your WordPress site as hackers exploit TimThumb security hole

A month ago we told you about a serious security whole in popular image manipulation script, TimThumb. Used by hundreds of WordPress themes this was a particularly far-reaching exploit that opened up many sites to hackers who could gain entry and do pretty much what they wanted.

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Is Your WordPress Website Distributing Malware in Google Image Search?

It turns out that thousands of hacked sites are infecting Google image search results with images redirecting to Fake AV sites. And, unfortunately for you and for me, WordPress sites are a prime target for this kind of attack. A PHP injection into a WordPress site can generate spammy websites, hijack Google Image SERPs and result in your WordPress website tossing unsuspecting Google Image searchers to a FakeAV site.

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Cleaning up an infected website – Part I: WordPress and the Pharma Hack

This is part one of a small series of posts showing how to clean up sites. We will start with how to clean up “Pharma Hack” on a WordPress driven site due to the popularity. You can follow the series here:http://blog.sucuri.net/category/guides.

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6 .htaccess Tricks for Better WordPress SEO & Security

Here are six htacccess tricks that will help improve the security and SEO quality of your WordPress-powered site. We do this using .htaccess to establish canonical URLs for key peripheral files, such as your robots.txt, favicon.ico, and sitemap.xml files.

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How to Automatically Backup Your WordPress Site to Dropbox

Last year Dropbox announced that they have 4,000,000 users, a number which is likely to double very soon. In case you’re out of the loop, Dropbox is a cloud-based storage and file sharing service. It’s become very popular, due to its ease of use and the basic offer of 2GB of free storage space.

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8 Tips to Secure a WordPress Site

Security is one of those topics that comes up time and time again. You hear the advice, you know you should do it, but somehow, you never get around to it.

The tips in this post are designed to help make your WordPress installation safer and less likely to be hacked or spammed. If you’re short on time, just start at the top and work down. I’ve (roughly) ordered them so that the most important tweaks come first.

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Quick Tip: Backing Up Your Blog with VaultPress

As with almost every other web app, WordPress stores information in a database. There’s always a chance that your data could be lost or corrupted, and it’s wise to have a solid backup strategy in place. This is where VaultPress enters the scene to save the day, providing complete backup and security for your WordPress site.

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11 Quick Tips: Securing Your WordPress Site

WordPress is the most used open-source platform nowadays for any type of websites: whether it is blog, CMS or any other custom solution. WordPress is naturally based on PHP (among other languages), so, as a PHP developer I always make sure to cover/apply some tips for WordPress to make secure and speedup the site which I develop. In this WordPress tutorial you will find tips and tricks for securing WordPress and otimizing your WordPress blog.

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Securing Your WordPress Website

Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially. It is now rare for a new website to not get comment spam withindays of its release, even if it is not promoted at all.

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10 Steps to Securing Your WordPress Installation

WordPress is open source which means that everyone, including hackers with a malicious intent, can scour the source code looking for holes in its security. That is why I’m going to show you some good precautionary steps to take to protect you, your WordPress and most importantly, your users.

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WordPress Data Analysis

How To: Display your Google Analytics to the Public

Have you ever wanted to show off your Google Analytics data to your blog visitors? If you sell advertising on your site then this is a very handy metric for advertisers to base their buying decision on. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t make this very easy at the moment but there is a WordPress plugin called Google Analyticator which will let you do just this. It also does a lot more

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How to Get Facebook Insights for Your WordPress Site

More than 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day by using one of their social plugins. However most sites that we see are not taking full advantage of what facebook has to offer. Were you aware of the fact that you can get facebook insights for your WordPress site?

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Displaying WordPress Site Data Via jQuery Charts

In this tutorial we will use the jQuery Charts Plotting plugin, JQplot, to create a new WordPress plugin which can display some of your blog’s traffic, popular categories, and more with some beautiful visual charts. Looking for a way to pimp out a client’s dashboard (or your own!) with some useful infographics? Look no further… we’ll show you how it’s done right here.

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Troubleshooting and Debugging WordPress

How to tweak your website images for maximum SEO

Most of the bloggers use images to improve the search engine optimization and to enhance the website content. And this is fact that photos and graphics bring more organic traffic to their site, specially if we are thinking about Google Image Search.

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Your Complete Guide to Troubleshooting WordPress

Before you start tearing your hair out, before you start posting frantically on support forums, you can follow this guide to get a handle on what’s gone wrong and how you can fix it.

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Troubleshooting WordPress: Common Fatal Error Messages and How to Fix Them

There are some WordPress problems that crop up again and again. And there are few people better equipped to deal with them than the many Support Pros across the WordPress Universe. I’ve teamed up with WPMU DEV’s awesome Mason James, big-boss of our own Support crew, to look at some common WordPress problems. Over the next few weeks we’ll look at how you can address them.

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Debugging & Troubleshooting

It is safer to activate the plugin without any current pages or posts already in the system. The plugin adds in extra meta information into the database about a page when it is saved, and all previous pages or posts wont have this information in there. We recommend activating these plugins from a fresh install of wordpress.

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WordPress Post Management Related

Three Ways To Display Your Latest Google+ Updates On WordPress

The Google+ Project has been growing rapidly since it’s launch. Many are tipping the service to steal a huge chunk of FaceBooks traffic. Although I have signed up, I haven’t posted much on Google+ as I have been busy over the last few weeks, though I can certainly see the appeal of the service, particularly it addresses the main issue with Facebook by allowing you to allocate friends into different circles.

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How to Create and Setup Google+ Brand Page for Your WordPress Site

It was invite only and very limited. They were not allowing any business to join. Some businesses created a profile as a personal account, and they were all banned. Finally Google has given an official go-ahead to all businesses. You can now create your own Google+ Brand page.

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Writing WordPress Guides For The Advanced Beginner

Creating WordPress tutorials is a fantastic way to help build the WordPress community and to increase your Web traffic. That’s no secret. Just Google “wordpress tutorial” and you’ll see hundreds of results. The complete novice will find scores of well-written tutorials clearly demonstrating the basics of the WordPress dashboard and of activating the default template, in simple jargon-free language.

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