WordPress is continually under attack from hackers trying to exploit out-of-date code, buggy code, and permissions errors. There are many resources available to assist you in hardening your wordpress site. For general security purposes, you may want to start here. Password Protect Your wp-admin Folder You have a good password. You aren’t using the...
Read MoreLinking to External URL’s in the Post Title
With a new look here at the blog (and new features) I had to add one more to the theme – linking directly to referenced URL’s in the post title. Sometimes I like to post short entries (like this) about a site. Instead of you clicking on the permalink to see the post and THEN clicking on the external link, this sends you directly off-site. Take...
Read MoreDMCA Notice Forces 1,450,000 Education Blogs Offline
DMCA Notice Forces 1,450,000 Education Blogs Offlinevia TorrentFreak. This is pretty egregious behavior. Blanket actions that affect this many children and teachers are standard now? Oh, they are just kids right so what are they going to do about...
Read MoreLinking to External Links in WordPress
The main problem they face is that they have to make a new post in order to just tell the readers to go to another site. We have a solution for this problem and that is through a custom field hack which allows the WordPress blogger to link to the external resources in their post title Kind of meta, but this allows you to use the title of your wordpress...
Read MoreAdjust the font-size of your menu items in the WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme
You rocking the twentyeleven theme too? You can make the text larger in the menu by adjusting attribute in the style.css file. The header.php file has a <nav id=access...> tag in it. That’s the secret. Open up style.css and search for #access. The navigation is an unordered list so modify the #access ul attribute and make the text any size...
Read MorePassword Protect Your Web Development Folder
We can use simple password protection to keep users from seeing your latest development on the web until you are ready. By using the .htaccess file in the folder we want to password protect and an .htpasswd file outside of the /public_html/ folder to specify the users we will be able to lock out the public until our theme / project / site / etc. is...
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