5 Steps To Better Sidebar Navigation in WordPress
How to get super fancy vertical flyout menus for your sidebars. BOOYAH.
6 Things You Need To Do Today To Protect Your WordPress Blog From “Large Scale Attack”
According to Daring Fireball and his sources in the WordPress community, there is a “large scale attack” against WordPress going on right now. As far as I can tell, this attack involves malicious code being put on sites (sounds familiar) and the only way to make sure that your WordPress site doesn’t become one of […]
How To Switch Your Web Hosting Services
I have been hesitant to post on this topic in particular because I don’t know that there is an easy, one-size-fits-all answer to how to best migrate your blog from one hosting company to another. Most web companies store their information in their own ways and have varying degrees of data access they provide to […]
Multiple Feeds: Who In The What Now?
Despite what you may think, ABDPBT is not just one blog. It’s a collection of five blogs that are linked together, as I’ve said before, with the technological equivalent of spit and duct tape. There are several reasons for this: 1) I wanted to specialize different areas on different topics, and not force people to […]
Another Easy–If Inelegant–Way To Increase WordPress Security: Blank HTML Page in Plugins Folder
My experience of late has made it clear to me that one of my missions will now have to be increasing the security of WordPress blogs, whether I like it or not. I did contact a blog security “expert” for help with this problem–nearly two weeks ago, I contacted him, based on a referral. But […]
5 Ways To Increase The Security of Your WordPress Blog
Security isn’t really an issue for most bloggers. Well, at least not until it is. And when that happens, you kind of get a quick education on the topic of keeping assholes off your blog’s administrative pages. In the interest of pooling resources, I thought I’d share some of the hard-won education I’ve received over […]
WordPress: Start Using The HTML Interface
Chances are, if you’re new to blogging, you’re using the visual editor in WordPress to type out your posts. The visual interface is what is referred to as a WYSIWYG editor (“What You See Is What You Get”) because it attempts to render the post in the input box exactly as it will appear on […]
Typo: A New WordPress Theme Available For Download (Free)
Chris Coyier is a web designer and the mind behind CSS Tricks, one of my favorite web design blogs and source of many remedies for CSS-related disasters I’ve encountered in the past year. Recently, Chris took on the project of creating a new theme for WordPress, called Typo, that is run completely typographically, which means […]