Category Archives: WordPress
WordPress Theme Preview: Lucent
Hey folks. Today I wanted to share a theme that we are working on releasing very shortly for purchase at ThemeForest. We are currently going through the final phases of testing it to make sure it works well in different set-ups and once that’s done, it will be on its way to ThemeForest.
In the meantime, here’s a screenshot of the frontpage. Let us know in the comments what you think about it.
WordPress 3.3.2 Available For Download
Last night the WordPress team released WordPress 3.3.2 which is available for download and update in the built-in updater. The release is a bug fix and maintenance release and includes security updates for the following libraries (taken from the WordPress blog post):
- Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media.
- SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins.
- SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash content, and may still be in use by plugins and themes.
The release also addresses the following bugs (taken from the official blog post):
- Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances, disclosed by Jon Cave of our WordPress core security team, and Adam Backstrom.
- Cross-site scripting vulnerability when making URLs clickable, by Jon Cave.
- Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in redirects after posting comments in older browsers, and when filtering URLs. Thanks to Mauro Gentile for responsibly disclosing these issues to the security team.
As always we recommend that you update right away in order to keep your WordPress installation secure and prevent breaches. If you are on our maintenance plan, your site has already been upgraded.
Auto-Generating a Select Menu in WordPress With a Custom Menu Walker
While working on the new website for BestAppSite, I wanted to have the functional <select> drop-down menu for smaller screen sizes, such as for the iPhone. These menus behave nicely and save valuable real-estate when you have many items to present.
Creating the menu itself isn’t very hard in plain HTML. The theory is to add the code for the drop-down underneath the default unordered list menu and then display/hide it using the media queries in the CSS. Couple that with the simple javascript snippet to open a URL from a drop-down selection, the menu itself is no problem.
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Hey Photographers, Do This Now To Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Working directly on a photographer’s website, I always want to spend quite some time on the performance side of things, especially since you could argue that the website is so vital to the photographer getting any business.
Unfortunately, many photographers neglect performance when building their own sites in WordPress, so this post is for you guys. Simple instructions on what you should do to speed up your site (if you are running WordPress that is…).
How long will this take you? Probably under 15 minutes!
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Upgrade Your WordPress Installations to 3.3.1
Just yesterday a new version of WordPress was released. WordPress 3.3.1 is a security update that comes with 15 nice bug and security patches. Since this update doesn’t alter the database in any way it is a very straight forward one that should be foolproof.
As always we recommend backing up your files and database before doing any update on your site. All of our clients on our WordPress Updating Plan have already been upgraded safely to WordPress 3.3.1.