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?
Category Archives: Tips & Tutorials
CSS to fight spams ?
This 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
Many 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. 
Create your own Flickr Badge
As you can see on the right hand side, I now have a Flickr photos and they come randomly. That was what I spent my all day on.
Anyway, implementing Flickr Badge was a pain in the a**. Why? Because I didn’t exactly know how they came into place. I have seen so many themes and most of the themes seem to have these Flickr Badges (of course I didn’t know the term before today, honestly). I was rather searching for Flickr plugins or Flickr widgets. I did find couple of them and tried to implement it but due to the way the sidebar was CSSed, I couldn’t get the desired result I was looking for. I was lost.
No Sidebars Defined?
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.