A zero day vulnerability has been recently found on TimThumb, a popular image resizing utility widely used in a lot of WordPress themes. This issue was first discovered and reported by Mark Maunder after his blog got hacked via the timthumb.php file/script. The TimThumb zero day vulnerability allows malicious users, hackers and other third parties [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 16, 2011
The WordPress dev team released the first Release Candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.2 a couple days ago. Release Candidates are versions of the software that are released after the beta phase and before the final release. Some important stuff to tak note for those who are using/testing WordPress 3.2 RC1: WordPress plugin and theme authors [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Our previous giveaway – MediaLoot Elite Membership giveaway was for graphic artists, web developers and design aficionados. This time, I have something special for all WordPress fans and users out there. In cooperation with WPMU DEV and AppSumo, JaypeeOnline will be giving away 3 1-year WPMU DEV Elite Memberships worth $420. For those who aren’t [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 9, 2011
Hello everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend, especially all the mother’s who celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday. Welcome to the 128th edition of the Weekend Roundup. My apologies for it being published late. Spent the whole day yesterday with the family celebrating Mother’s Day. Although this edition is late, it doesn’t mean that the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 22, 2011
To celebrate Easter, WooThemes is having a weekend sale on all their premium theme packages and club subscriptions. Instead of the regular 2-for-1 promo where you can purchase two premium WordPress themes for the price of one, this weekend they’re offering a 5-for-1 promo for any of their WordPress theme packages plus 20% off club [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Anthony Montalbano and JTPratt recently gave a presentation at WordPress Ann Arbor on WordPress Best Practices entitled “100 Things you Need to Know About WordPress“. Their presentation features a comprehensive list of useful WordPress tips, tricks and other essential WordPress-related resources. If you weren’t able to attend the event, don’t worry because these guys have [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 10, 2011
Hello everyone! Hope you’re all doing fine and having a good weekend as well. Since I’ll probably be out the whole day tomorrow, I made sure that I published this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup early. There are lots of very interesting and very informative articles so make sure you check each one. Enjoy! [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 1, 2011
If you’re a WordPress user, fan, theme/plugin developer or anyone who lives, eats and breathes WordPress then this new social network is for you. WordPress Junkies is a social network for all things WordPress. It aims to provide users a friendly and efficient environment to share and promote all WordPress-related stuff. WordPress Junkies was cofounded [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 1, 2011
One of the cool features of WordPress are parent/child themes. This feature allows users to customize a theme without having to worry about breaking or messing up the installed WordPress theme. When a child theme isn’t detected on the server, WordPress loads the “parent” theme. The TwentyTen default WordPress theme is a good theme for [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 23, 2011
WPZOOM, known for their premium WordPress themes has recently released a free portfolio style WordPress theme called Photoria. This is the third time that they’ve created and released a free theme, the first one was the Travelogue theme and the most recent one is the Profile theme back in November, 2009. From WPZOOM: At a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 11, 2011
WordPress.com announced the availability of premium themes for their users last month. The initial release only featured two premium themes – the Headlines theme by WooThemes and the Shelf theme from Theme Foundry. Last week, WordPress.com added more choices by adding three more premium themes – the Pretty Young Thing theme by StudioPress, Crisp theme [...]
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