With the release of WordPress 3.2 came a redesign of the admin interface, and with that a gruesome new font, line heights and margins. The new design looked that terrible that I – for the first time ever – switched from the plain HTML editor to the visual editor. The visual editor uses an eye [...]

Categories: Web Development

Two WordPress releases in short time, that puts some pressure on system administrators and website owners. That is, if you update your blogs as soon as the updates come out, and not weeks afterwards. WordPress 3.2 is not a security update, which means that webmasters have more time to update their blogs to the new [...]

Categories: Web Development

It seems that the WordPress developers have a thing for releasing a new version of WordPress shortly before I’m going to bed. Whenever they do it means that I have to stay away to find out if it fixes security vulnerabilities. If it does, I update all of my blogs immediately. Instead of going to [...]

Categories: Web Development

Blogging with WordPress is an easy, quick way to get your posts to viewers without sitting down and plugging through an entire website of code yourself. However, there are certain aspects of the program that cause some users pause. For example, many posts benefit from a nice, clean thumbnail seated just to the left of [...]

Categories: Web Development

An update for the popular blogging software WordPress was just released. The developers classify the update as a security update, it appears however that it fixes no zero day vulnerability. The WordPress blog lists the following security enhancements and fixes in WordPress 3.1.3. Various security hardening Taxonomy query hardening Prevent sniffing out user names of [...]

Categories: Security

WordPress has just released a new version of the popular blogging platform. WordPress 3.1.2 is a security update which makes it a mandatory update for all self-hosted WordPress sites. The update “addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts” notes Ryan Boren at the official WordPress blog. The WordPress developers suggest to [...]

Categories: Security, Web Development

The developers of the popular WordPress blogging script have just released an update that raises the version of WordPress to 3.1.1. WordPress 3.1.1 is a security update which means that it is a mandatory update for all webmasters who run public self-hosted WordPress blogs. The blog post that announced the new version of WordPress mentioned [...]

Categories: The Web

A core website metric is the page loading time. It determines the time it takes to fully load a web page. With each passing second, visitors are more likely to close the tab or hit the back button. The page loading time has long evolved, and studies have shown that a faster page loading time [...]

Categories: Web Development

I’m currently working a bit on the technical backend of this WordPress blog. You may know that I have started to create custom category pages for each blog category (like Windows, Firefox or Google) here at Ghacks which allowed me to add custom contents to each. I have added a custom heading and a short [...]

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