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Best WordPress Security Articles

Jean Galea — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:16:45 +0000

http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/11-best-ways-to-improve-wordpress-security/

http://speckyboy.com/2009/09/22/20-powerful-wordpress-security-plugins-and-some-tips-and-tricks/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/01/10-useful-wordpress-security-tweaks/

http://digwp.com/2010/07/wordpress-security-lockdown/

http://aext.net/2010/05/wordpress-security-plugins/

http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2010/04/20/wordpress-security-a-comprehensive-guide/

http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/wordpress-security-tips/

http://wordpress.org/news/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

How to use WordPress 3 Custom Menus

Jean Galea — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:36:55 +0000

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus

http://www.cozmoslabs.com/2010/06/28/wp_nav_menu-shortcode/

WordPress 3 Current Page Style in Menu

Jean Galea — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:55:01 +0000

In WordPress 3 when you create a custom menu, you can also assign a different style to the menu item representing the current page. WordPress automatically assigns a class to the menu item of the current page: current-menu-item.

All you have to do is add styles to this class in order to have a different looking menu item for the current page.

Easy Styling of TinyMCE Editor in WordPress 3

Jean Galea — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:45:00 +0000

Just add the following to your functions file:

add_editor_style();

Then create a file called editor-style.css with the rest of your theme files, and put all the styles you want to use in the editor there.

WordPress Development Plugins

Jean Galea — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:02:56 +0000

Here are a few plugins that can help you while developing on WordPress:

WP Developer Assistant – because it has some reports and features which are very handy
Debug Queries – Analysis of queries
Debug Objects – Evaluates many values
FirePHP – as Plugin for WordPress to access specific content without crawling through your source code

WP E-Commerce Multilanguage

Jean Galea — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:34:08 +0000

Out-of-the-box, the default language for the WP E-Commerce plugin is English. As of this writing, the plugin lacks a convenient way for the customer to switch between languages, though hopefully, this is an upcoming feature. However, you may choose an alternate language for display on your store. There are currently nineteen language files available, and whichever one you select will be the one displayed on all of your stored pages. As there is currently no easy way for customers to switch between languages, choose whichever language your customers will expect.

WPML are working on a plugin that integrates with WP E-Commerce and thus gives it multilanguage facilities. You can read more about it here.

Including an Edit link on the WordPress front end

Jean Galea — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:45:38 +0000

As you have probably seen, many themes have an Edit link visible on posts or pages when viewing them on the front end, provided you are logged in to the site with editing rights. When designing your own theme it is probably a good idea to implement this feature, especially for sites which will have alot of content. The simple reason is that it is much easier to find a page from the front end than from the back end, thus you will make life easier for the site administrators.

Use WordPress functions outside of WordPress

Jean Galea — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:02:26 +0000

Just add the following piece of code in your file to have access to WordPress functions:

require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/blog/wp-blog-header.php');

WordPress Custom Media Tabs

Jean Galea — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:19:17 +0000

http://orangesplotch.com/blog/wordpress-media-plugin-tutorial-1-custom-media-tabs/

Plugins to Add Multiple Columns on your WordPress Page

Jean Galea — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:54:20 +0000

Set from within the Page/Post itself using shortcodes (My favourite)

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-columns

[column width="47%" padding="6%"] Column 1 content goes here. [/column]
[column width="47%" padding="0"] Column 2 content goes here. [/column]

Set from the template file

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multiple-content-blocks/

Using MultiEdit (Similar to previous option)

http://blog.page.ly/multiedit-plugin/

Set from WP-Admin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secondary-html-content/

Using the More button

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/02/04/split-wordpress-content-into-multiple-sections/

Quite a complex solution, but looks great, uses the tag

http://www.code-styling.de/english/development/wordpress-plugin-page-columnist-en

More information

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/25/advanced-power-tips-for-wordpress-template-developers/