There was a security update on the newly released WordPress version 2.6.5 and I might have been late in upgrading it to this version. Usually, you will need to upgrade your WordPress if you do not want some other person hacking into your site. So, why not do it now?
Archive for November, 2008
WordPress’d @ 2.6.5
Sunday, November 30th, 2008CSS to fight spams ?
Friday, November 28th, 2008This post is not at all related to WordPress directly but I found this topic was quite useful for any site that has to forms to be submitted or emails to be shown on the website without having all the complex coding. There are at least 2 ways in which you can use CSS and fight spammers. Oh yes! no one likes to get a 1000 emails daily when only a few are really important. Email clients such as Outlook sucks with filtering spams (my experience) so the best way is to prevent the spammers from collecting your emails from your site.
The magic of Custom Fields
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Many of us don’t use Custom Fields much in WordPress. In fact, I didn’t know why it existed in the first place. What does it do? I am guessing many people who use WordPress don’t use this feature at all. But hey, I was recently studying several articles on what this could really do and I am still exploring. It looks like it does almost everything the easy way. You just have to know how to use it. 
Next Free Theme – Rockstar
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Just to give you a small hint on what I will be working on next. Rockstar is the theme name I have given. This theme will be primarily used for my own band’s (Nissim) website. Its like killing 2 birds with 1 stone (as they say). The features that I have included are pretty much required for every band and I am sure those who are searching for good looking rockstar theme for their bands will definitely benefit from this free theme. I will update on it more later..
New update on simpleX
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
simpleX is now version 1.1. The page level (menu) has been fixed so now you can add sub pages without a glitch. Here you can see 4 levels of menu.
If you find out any other bugs, please do report to me. Thanks!
Free simpleX theme ready for download
Monday, November 10th, 2008
UPDATE: Its now version 1.2.1 and tested with WordPress 2.7. Please download the new version. Also see Update Notes 1.2 and 1.2.1.
As mentioned in my earlier post, I have fixed a few bugs and I guess its now ready for release. There might be some issues but I will only know that when you can provide me some feedback. As I told you, this is not a perfect theme. I am just using this opportunity to learn to make WordPress themes. But, this theme is definitely usable if you are looking for clean, elegant design. Nothing complex!
simpleX Theme update
Sunday, November 9th, 2008So, its been 4 days I am trying to complete a simple WordPress theme – simpleX. Its been a great experience diving into the ocean and exploring. I have found quite many helpful bits here and there to enhance the features. Those simply are making me believe WordPress has a great future and I am more convinced that WordPress can indeed be used to create any kind of apps.
No Sidebars Defined?
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Interesting find! As I have already mentioned, I am working with my simpleX WordPress Theme. I didn’t have the functions.php page as I thought I didn’t require it. So, what next? I wanted to customize my sidebar css. I thought ‘are they widgets?’ So, there I go. Design -> Widgets and BOOM! I see a red highlighted box with No Sidebars Defined error.
