By Jeffro on February 13, 2012
ThemeSorter.com which I wrote about back in March of 2011 has turned one year old and thanks to AppThemes.com, they will be celebrating by giving away a few prizes. One of the prizes they’ll be giving away is an AppThemes club Developer membership valued at $349.00. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on their celebration post explaining which AppThemes theme you are most interested in and how you would use it.
Congrats to them on not only sticking around for a year, but also for smashing their goal of 1,000 themes by the Summer of 2011.
Posted in News | Tagged giveaways, Themes, themesorter
By Jeffro on February 13, 2012
Looks like Jane Wells is in the unique position to potentially purchase a bakery located in Tybee, Georgia. Imagine a location where you could go eat delicious WordPress inspired bakery items with free WiFi. Seems like a good idea to me. If you are familiar with Kickstarter, keep an eye on the following website, BuyJaneABakry.com as you’ll soon be able to help Jane crowdfund the down payment.
Posted in News | Tagged bakery, jane, wordpress |
By Jeffro on February 10, 2012
Alex who also goes by Viper007Bond has recently installed Limit Login Attempts on his personal blog because someone is trying to brute force their way into his site. I’ve mentioned this plugin before and his post reminded me that I should probably give you all an update as to the results I’ve seen over the past few months.
Since January 1st, 2012 there have been 75 email notifications sent to my inbox letting me know of an IP address that failed to login to the back-end of WPTavern three times in a row. In almost every case, the notifications look like the following with the IP address being different.
3 failed login attempts (1 lockout(s)) from IP: 78.29.15.137
Last user attempted: admin
IP was blocked for 20 minutes
There have only been a few times when Webmaster and even fewer with Jeffro as the attempted username. I receive multiple notifications every day with some spurts of 3-4 different IP addresses failing to login. I have no idea if these are real people or bots trying to login but thankfully, Limit Login Attempts is keeping me abreast of all the failed attempts. It’s definitely a plugin you should consider installing for the sake of monitoring the activity of failed login attempts. This is also a reminder that if you are using admin as your administrative username or have that username within the Administrator role, you’re begging for trouble.
Posted in Plugins | Tagged admin, limit, login, passwords, Plugins |
By Jeffro on February 10, 2012
Ian Stewart shared some of his predictions as they relate to WordPress themes for 2012. His thoughts on Lighter themes as well as themes getting rid of the useless options are spot on. It’s a trend that’s made headway since the beginning of 2012 and it will only continue during the rest of the year. I’m not quite sure about his thoughts on using the default theme that ships with WordPress because it gives you a 1,000 hour head start. I’m sure many will beg to differ but it’s a good trend to see that with each default theme, the team will be trying new ideas and hopefully, begin inspiring everyone else.
Amongst the comments, Josh Leuze proposed that themes should have less features built into them.
Along with less theme options it would be nice to see less features built into themes. There are so many themes out there with poorly implemented breadcrumbs, slideshows, and other functionality that doesn’t really need to be built in when there are so many awesome plugins they could integrate instead.
And with all the time they save by choosing established plugins instead of rolling their own, they can concentrate on sweet designs instead
With that being said, do you know of any themes that concentrate exclusively on providing a rich, beautiful presentation of content without all the doo dads attached onto it such as sliders, breadcrumbs, flashy headers, etc.? A theme that takes each post type and turns that piece of content whether it be a video, image, or blockquote into a thing of beauty. I’m willing to bet that most WordPress themes be it free or commercial do not accomplish that task out of the box. Instead, it seems like it takes a skilled designer or team of designers to turn a specific WordPress theme into a great presentation of content. However, the monkey wrench thrown into the equation is that themes are subjective and what looks great to one person may look like crap to someone else. If you can find a theme that accomplishes everything I’ve mentioned out of the box, I think that gets you closer to a 1,000 hour head start.
Posted in Themes | Tagged ian stewart, predictions, Themes |
By Jeffro on February 10, 2012
It was an idea that was proposed by Jeremy Clarke about a year ago and soon, that idea will be turned into a reality. His idea was to fix the image caption system to allow links within the caption area of images. It’s an idea that I support as I’ve mentioned in a previous post as the image caption serves as the perfect opportunity to provide attribution and is especially useful for the Image Post Type.
Ticket #18311 which centers around this functionality has been blessed and looks like it will be added to WordPress 3.4 if all goes well. Everyone interested in this feature should follow the progress made on the ticket as well as test the patch and last but not least, provide feedback.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged captions, features, functionality, images |
By Jeffro on February 10, 2012
It's Capital P Dangit
Posted in WordPress | Tagged crosswords, filters, wordpress |
By Jeffro on February 8, 2012
WPLift has a cool post highlighting the different default themes that WordPress has had since its inception. According to the post, since WordPress was first created, the publishing platform has had a total of five default themes with Twenty Twelve being the sixth, slated to arrive with WordPress 3.4. It was a nice stroll down memory lane and a bit surprising that the amount of default themes was so low. However, it seemed like forever when Kubrick was the default theme for WordPress.
So the question is, how many of you remember using the first WordPress Default theme for your site?
Posted in Themes | Tagged default, history, Themes, wordpress
By Jeffro on February 7, 2012
Chris of LiftUX reached out to me the other day and wanted me to let everyone know that they are hiring for the position of Senior WordPress/PHP developer. The developer would also be helping to build out themes and plugins for UpThemes.
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Posted in News | Tagged developers, jobs, Themes
By Jeffro on February 7, 2012
Many people within the WordPress community are anxiously awaiting the first issue of the WPCandy Quarterly to show up in their mailbox. According to Ryan, that day is soon approaching as the first batches are currently being printed. However, since there is still some time before we’ll be holding the physical copy, Ryan has explained how he went about developing the first issue. Based on the video Ryan published showcasing the various designs that articles have gone through, it looks like the magazine will have an impressive display around the content of each article, giving it that magazine feel.
Posted in News | Tagged magazine, wordpress, wpcandy
By Jeffro on February 6, 2012
John James Jacoby of BuddyPress.org has announced that the BuddyPress Codex has received a much needed refresh. Here is the kicker, the BuddyPress Codex is powered by a WordPress installation where all registered users are an editor. Users can share information as in a traditional wiki but everything is housed on individual pages. Interestingly enough, this very idea was proposed a couple of times during the past few years for the WordPress Codex but it never gained much traction.
Head on over to the NEW BuddyPress Codex and check it out. It will be interesting to see how this approach scales.
Posted in BuddyPress | Tagged BuddyPress, codex, informaton, wordpress |
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