Siobhan McKeown who I’ve noticed has made a name for herself within the WordPress community over the past two years has published an excellent guide with all sorts of tips on how to become one of the top WordPress professionals. While she nails it on multiple levels, I have a tip or two of my own. First, it’s WordPress with a capital P, dangit. Secondly, make sure you use the correct WordPress logo or else you’ll look stupid within the WordPress community and serious players will fail to take you seriously. Last but not least, do not use the word WordPress within the domain name. For example, www.wordpressdevelopers.com. This is considered trademark infringement and is another way for no one within the WordPress community to take you seriously.
Four Common Sense Ways To Improve Security On Your WordPress Powered Site
Generally common sense material listed in the article but it’s always good to remind people about these techniques. As far as I’m concerned, just being in the know and having the awareness of what’s going on is half the battle.
On a final note, while website security can seem daunting and intimidating, it’s something that should be approached from a standpoint of keeping aware and in the know such that, if issues do arise on your website, you are able to calmly resolve the issue and get your website back to where it was, knowing full-well the scope of the security measures in place.
Easy Way To Highlight Guest Posts
If you’ve read a guest post on this site recently, you may have noticed a special block I created just for them which is styled differently than the rest of the post. The block contains information about the author of the post, an avatar image and a link to the URL of their choosing. This way, I give the reader clear indication that the post they are reading is not mine. I know you’re just dieing to see how I accomplished this little feat so let’s get onto the code snippets.
Back in late April, I inquired on the forum if anyone had any experience or plugin suggestions regarding highlighting guest blog post authors. I was hoping to find a plugin that would add a div box which pulled in a users gravatar via their email address while I manually filled out the content in each post. I didn’t come across anything like that but thanks to the members of the forum, they offered a way in which I could add some CSS to my themes style sheet and then wrap the guest author content within that Div class so it would be styled accordingly.
Here is the CSS code I added to me theme.
.guestposter { border: 1px solid #dddddd; padding-bottom: 16px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; font-style:italic; background: #E9E4D4; } .img-gravatar{ float:left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; } |
Once this was added to my style sheet, I was able to manually assign the guestposter class to a block of content which dealt with the guest post author.
<div class="guestposter"><img class="img-gravatar" src="link to the image" alt="alt text" title="titletext" width="50" height="50" />This is a guest blog post written by <strong>My WordPress</strong>, author of the blog, <a href="http://www.wordpress.org" target="_blank">WordPress</a>.</div> |
Of course, just substitute the code with your own stuff and you should be all set. I don’t publish guest posts that often so copying and then pasting this code snippet isn’t too bad.