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TimThumb Vulnerability Uncovered

posted on August 18th, 2011

About two weeks ago a vulnerability in a PHP plugin that is quite popular in performing image resizing tasks, and that I’d incorporated into my WEBphysiology Portfolio Plugin, was uncovered. I found out based upon an email that came out of my local WordPress Meetup group. The issue had to do with Read More→

On April 25, 2011, Facebook released the [Send] button. The [Send] button provides a means to share a web page with someone directly, as opposed to the [Like] button’s behavior of placing the entry on your wall for all your friends. Of course, the [Like] button is handy too. Fortunately Read More→

The History of WordPress

posted on February 12th, 2011

Here’s a very cool synopsis of the history of WordPress as well as just how much of a force it is in today’s blogging and CMS world. WordPress truly is king. The only question is whether it will be manageable given the astounding number of plugins and themes available. My expectation, given the product enhancement path I’ve experienced, is an astounding Yes. My recommendation Read More→

WordPress Theme Anatomy

posted on January 20th, 2011

This has to be one of the best diagrams that pulls together all the working parts of a WordPress theme. My hat is off to Joost de Valk for pulling this great illustration together and granting me permission to share it with the visitors to my site. Read More→

WEBphysiology Portfolio WordPress PluginI think we are ready for a break and to get back to the other web development business at hand, but we are truly happy with recent enhancements to our WEBphysiology Portfolio plugin for WordPress and wanted to let everyone know what’s been going on. Read More→

Medium WP Blue ButtonSorry for the intrusion but wanted to let you know about this issue right away. Today, WordPress released an update, which they have labeled as a critical security update. Read More→

WordPress Security

posted on December 29th, 2010

padlockToday I happened to come across a great article (update – article no longer exists, so, link removed) that has some details on hardening a WordPress install. I already follow Read More→

WEBphysiology Portoflio Plugin Released!

posted on October 18th, 2010
WEBphysiology Portfolio WordPress Plugin

WEBphysiology Portfolio

Hoorah!  We now have a much better understanding and appreciation for all those developers who have shared their work with us and others.  As of today, our first publicly available WordPress plugin, WEBphysiology Portfolio, has been released via the WordPress Plugin infrastructure.  It took awhile to work through the process, in addition to coding and testing the plugin, but we are very happy to join this community and feel good about giving back just a little.
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Adding Widget Areas to a Page

posted on September 7th, 2010

In this post I want to cover how one can add widget areas to a page. The example I’m going to use is something I had done on a TwentyTen child theme to make the home page consist of two widget areas. The left widget area is meant for Read More→

Child Themes and the function.php File

posted on August 30th, 2010

In my last post, “Customizing a WordPress Theme – The Right Way“, I mentioned that the function.php file is used to add new functionality to your Child theme. Many times this may be to add additional HTML elements and tags to allow for use in styling (i.e., CSS). Another use of the function.php file within a Child Theme is to Read More→