Blogging Tips

BBPress 1.0 Final Released

The final 1.0 release of bbPress, the popular forum script and kid brother of the world famous blogging solution, WordPress, is now available. bbPress 1.0 alpha started around August of last year, and after several release candidates they have finally released bbPress 1.0 Final. The latest release is now available for download on the bbPress site. The current version is geared towards …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from Needless Productions
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 and filed under WordPress
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WordPress Adds Commercially Supported GPL Themes

There has been a lot of discussions lately about WordPress and it’s GPL policy for themes. Thord Daniel Hedengren posted about the latest twist in the GPL debate today.

WordPress have added a Commercially Supported GPL Themes directory to the themes area of WordPress. There is currently 9 theme websites displayed in this commercial area …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 and filed under WordPress
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Protect Your WordPress Blog From Password Hackers With Login Lockdown

Bad Neighbourhood released a nice little WordPress plugin today called Login Lockdown

The plugin was designed to stop hackers from gaining access to your blog via trial and error, something which is quite common with WordPress blogs since most people use the default username login ‘admin’. The plugin lets you set a number of retries to login into your blog. If the user doesn’t enter the correct details they are locked …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 19th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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WordPress 2.8 Features

WordPress 2.8 has now been released and as always, it’s a great improvement on the previous version. I’ve been using it on a couple of sites and so far the biggest improvement has been the theme editor with its colour coding and line numbering.

There are a few other good looking features, the widget interface has improved greatly and you can now arrange your dashboard into four columns. Under your General settings …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on June 18th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Why bloggers with hosted WP blogs should sign up to WordPress.com

Many self-hosted WordPress users are under the impression that because they have their own installation of WordPress that allows them to use plugins, themes and edit their CSS and other files freely they do not need a WordPress.com account. The truth is, if you’re running a hosted WP.org blog on a public server there are plenty of reasons that you should have an account, if not …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from Needless Productions
Posted on June 17th, 2009 and filed under WordPress
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WordPress Plugin Business Model

WordPress is without doubt the best blogging platform in my opinion. There are 3 good reasons for this : Frequent updates and developments from the creators Automattic, a large theme repository and a large plugin repository.

Documentation aside, WordPress doesn’t really give support to users, which you can’t really complain about since it is a free product. Though their forum is full of bloggers helping each other, whether it is with regards …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 16th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Boost Your WordPress Security with a Yubikey

The Yubikey plugin for Wordpress integrates with Yubikey password devices to give you provide you with a multifactor one-time password for your blog. A Yubikey is a small inexpensive, about $25 U.S. Dollars, USB password generator. These devices are used to make it considerably more difficult to gain access to a computer account by using a two-factor authentication process and one-time passwords.

The plugin uses …

Written by Ryan Edmunds from Needless Productions
Posted on June 10th, 2009 and filed under WordPress
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