Following yesterdays post about my sites being exploited by the “Cheap Pharma” a-holes, I was brought to the attention of another WP site (very popular in that) had similar issue too, Chris Pearson is the founder of DYI Themes, so I stated following his Twitter feeds to find help. Per Chris, the exploit was in [...]

I have been pretty behind on keeping up with all things WP and might have missed the boat on the latest WP pitfalls, but found it the hard way that my site(s) were hacked on my new server for the first time since WordPress 2.5. I have been up to speed on all upgrades, all [...]

Sometimes all you need is a second opinion or a fresh pair of eyes to figure out why a certain something with your WordPress powered site is not working as you intended, now you have help. I will provide a 30 minute review of your site 1 with WordPress related issues or concerns and provide [...]

WP Pro got its first reboot since inception, this Summer reboot is based on a design by Jason Reynolds and as before, powered by WordPress using a grid design build on the solid Blueprint CSS Framework, one difference is that the theme is not available for download. Some back-end stuff is pending, but to most [...]

We released another new advanced WordPress theme called MixedTape at HeadsetOptions. I originally posted the release notes here but decided to move it over to the site for distribution and support purpose. This advanced theme includes user customization options page that allows design customization from within WordPress admin panel, Google Adsense placeholders , widget sidebars, [...]

While numerous blogs discussing the facelift WordPress 2.7 received (what with new colors, icons and all), the two subtle details I noticed that hint at the shift in philosophy of what WordPress really is and what it plans to offer the end user (in terms of built-in options) were seldom noted. Here’s my brief two [...]

When I started helping wpSnap on some of their technical issues last year, I realized that there was a lot of room to improve with the way conditional tags were written and addressed to produce the site that has among other things, featured listings, blogs and other WP themes all meshed into one pile of [...]

The navigational aspect of a site, especially one that is database driven, should have menus that are dynamically generated as well- just like the rest of the sites content, but is seldom the case. The reason is not the lack of technique, but rather the importance of effective navigation and its attribution to the success [...]

This tutorial is running longer than we initially anticipated, we will break section 3 further into sub-sections. In our ongoing exercise to learn the nuts and bolts of a magazine style WordPress theme, we examine what has become by far the most ignored part of a theme design, the navigation menu. As important as they [...]

In continuing our efforts of slicing and dicing a Magazine style WordPress theme, we come to a very interesting juncture with Java interfaces. This probable is the most ubiquitous feature of most all magazine themes. If you think about it, it makes sense that magazine style themes use this non-obtrusive code to help manage content. [...]