Well, I have been very busy these last few months and completely neglected this blog, so in the spirit of trying to get back on the horse I’m gonna start things off with some good news.
Collis Ta’eed, Chris Moyer and I successfully launched the new PSDTUTS web site today!
Wow what a Wordpress theme that was. Thankfully everything went off without a hitch and the new theme has found a home on the net. Apparently when I turned off maintenance mode the PSDTUTS community was waiting, comments have been rolling in all day about the upgrade and it seems to be an overwhelmingly positive response to the changes Collis and I made to the themes design and … Continue Reading
Content is probably your single most important assets on the web. So maybe you should consider keeping it protected. If you are like the many others out there using Wordpress to manage your precious content, than you probably should do a few things to help make it more secure from the admin side. Image you were hacked and lost everything, how devastating would that be? Take some simple measure now that will save you tons of heartache in the future.
We can all agree that having a secure web site is very important but what people forget is that you need to actually do a little work to make it that way. Yes, Wordpress does a … Continue Reading
Recently Valen Designs had upgraded to a newer version of Wordpress and discovered that the wp-version for the meta generator in the head of our template was being added without any call to it. Previously you would add a line in you header.php file that would show what version of Wordpress you were using and was up to you if you wanted to leave it in or not. Now things are different. You actually need to tell Wordpress that you want to remove the meta generator. Why remove it you ask? It’s a security issue. If hackers know what version you use than they can use a technique specifically designed for that version to exploit your site.
The Remove-My-Version plugin … Continue Reading
