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Around WordPress: CSS3, Sweave, Hacked, Date Changes, jQuery, and cURL

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:05:59 +0000

While there is still a lot of discussion on the upcoming WordPress 3.0, here are some other goodies from around the WordPress Community.

Plugins using date(‘U’) or time() may … – The timestamp has changed in WordPress 3.0 due to some time zone bugs. If you are using dates in Plugins and Themes, this is something you need to know.
file_get_contents : An Alternative to cURL – If you are using cURL in your Plugins, this might be a better alternative to check out, giving you better access to content and variables.
6 Tips to Build Better WordPress Themes – Binary Moon continues to impress with some great treats and the tips for building a better WordPress Theme is an excellent example. From thinking like your client and users to some great code, put this in your bookmarks.
Quick Tip: An Introduction to jQuery Templating by Nettuts+ – jQuery is becoming more and more popular in WordPress as well as general web design. JavaScript Templating allows you to easily convert JSON to HTML without parsing. Here is an example of how to create a jQuery templating plugin.
Did your WordPress site get hacked? by Donncha – Another well done article on what to do if your WordPress blog gets hacked. Tips and screenshots on things to look for and pay attention to. Again, upgrading immediately when an announcement comes out is the best fix and prevention.
FAQ My site was hacked « WordPress Codex – Just stumbled on another client who never got the word about the WordPress hacks going around last year. Here's another nag: UPDATE NOW! Once it's too late, it's too late.
25 Useful CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials by Dzine Blog – The amazing things you can do with CSS3 – here's more cool interactive and dynamic design elements to explore with CSS3 on your blog.
Matti Pastell – Create odf, pdf and html report from a single Sweave document – Not for the non-techy, this article talks about using reStructuredText (reST) markup and Python to create odf, pdf, and HTML reports from a single Sweave document. While not specifically for WordPress, these can easily be incorporated into WordPress blogs.
22 Useful Online Chart & Graph Generators from Hongkiat – If you need a chart in your blog post, then check out this collection of online chart and graph generators to make your point visual.

WordCast Recap: 3/1/10

Dave Moyer — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:42:31 +0000

It’s Friday once again! The WordCast network has been bringing you the best WordPress, blogging and social media news, tips, tricks, reviews and how-tos all week long, and we’re bringing the best of the best to you. From some important security details to the THEME TEAM!, look no further for the complete wrap-up of this week in blogging, WordPress and social media.

February 1 – 5, 2010

WordPress Hack Cloakes Itself to All But Search Engines

Automattic Hires Theme Developer Ian Stewart, Forms “Theme Team”

Donate to Your Favorite WordPress Project: Support a WordPress Developer Day

Learn to Write WordPress Plugins in 20 Minutes (video)

Around the WordPress Community: Dynamic Copyrights, Moving WordPress, Microformats, and Twitter to Blog

WordCast Conversations 7: WordPress and Blogging for Musicians and Bands

Our newest show, Plugin Picks premiered this week with Plugin Picks 1: Audio Player and Plugin Picks 2: Google Analyticator

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Have a great weekend, and we’ll see you on Monday!

WordCast 68: WordPress Security and Safety

Dave Moyer — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:00:35 +0000

Lorelle VanFossen takes Kym’s place this week for a very special edition of WordCast all about the recent attack on WordPress, what to do if you’re infected, what you can do to keep safe, and what you should and shouldn’t do when it comes to managing your blog.

Episode 68

Old WordPress Versions Under Attack

WordPress Security and How I’m Going to Take All Your Money

Upgrade WordPress

FriendFeed Discussion with Robert Scoble on WordPress Virus

How to Keep WordPress Secure

WordCast 62: Toodle off

Dave Moyer — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00:03 +0000

It’s a week of discovery on WordCast this week. We learned about a “secret” change in 2.8 that’s making some of the net mad, fascinating statistics about WordPress themes, and we even learned what a WordPress alert bar sounds like. All that and more in episode 62. We can’t believe we’ve made it this far… still.

Episode 62

WordPress ping behavior change changing the way the web should work?

Teens in Tech hacked:

CEO of b5Media steps down

Did you pay for your theme? 79% of people don’t.

Donate Friday instead of Follow Friday?

WordPress Tip of the Week: Grabbing your WordPress API key to get Akismet working

Kym’s pick: Easy Retweet plugin

Dave’s pick: wpStore theme

Voicemail from Darren

Email from Jim:

This may sound very elementary: When looking at PlugIns, many say they
aren’t tested on the latest WP version. Some are really outdated. How
do you know if something is going to work? And, are there PlugIns that
just will not with certain templates? If so, how does a user know it’s
a real issue vs their own installation problem.

Tweet from jonnyblackler: How do you improve your Google Pagerank?

Tweet from RGreenberg: How do you config Post by Email for self-hosted WP blogs?