WordPress is a great platform – it’s easy to use, fast, reliable, and very popular. Unfortunately, that also makes it a big target for hackers. A few weeks ago, FerretArmy.com got hacked – essentially, it was serving malicious content from an injected iFrame. In addition, the administrative panel was intentionally broken in an effort to [...]
I’m continuously amazed at the versatility of WordPress. As a blogging platform, it’s incredible. However, it’s also incredibly useful as just a general website engine – it creates the shell, and the internals can be done up however you please. At most, you only need to know a modest amount of PHP to create a [...]
I just recently changed to a new theme for my site. Since then, I’ve been doing my first real digging into the internals of how theming works and how to talk to the back end of WordPress. It’s been a suprisingly pleasant venture – all your content is easily accessible and the interface is clean. [...]
There’s a handy new WordPress iPhone/iPod Touch app that enables connectivity to your WordPress blog for easy management – writing articles, managing comments, etc. The best part is that it works with both WordPress.com and any self-installed blogs (like my own). I recently converted from an iPod Touch to an iPhone, so this is hopefully [...]
