A security release for WordPress has just been rolled out and it’s recommended that all WordPress sites upgrade as the release will prevent your site from being targeted from a newly discovered exploit.
Read more on the WordPress.org Blog
Logging-In To WordPress
October 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The login page for all default WordPress sites is http://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php
Here is the login process in detail
In your browser’s address bar type your domain name followed by /wp-login.php
You should then see the default WordPress login page
Complete the username and password fields
If you wish to remain logged into this WordPress website for future visits check the “Remember Me” check-box
Click Login. A successful login will redirect you to the WordPress dashboard screen
WordPress Theme Frameworks Using a Parent/Child structure
October 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
My Personal Favorite:
Hybrid by Justin Tadlock
Others Include:
- Sandbox (the grand-daddy of WordPress theme frameworks)
- Thematic
- The Buffet Framework
- WPFramework (not publicly released at time of writing)
Theme Frameworks that do NOT use a Parent/Child Structure
- Carrington
- Thesis (Commercial Theme)
WordPress Tiny MCE Visual Editor Toolbar – Text Formating Buttons
October 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There are four primary buttons in the Visual Editor ToolBar that allow you to control the basic formatting of text in your posts:
Sets selected text as bold.
HTML view: <strong>Bolded Text</strong>
Sets selected text as italicized.
HTML View: <em>Italicized Text</em>
Sets selected text as strike-through.
HTML View: <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Strike Through Text</span>
Sets selected text as underlined. This button is located on the second row of the visual editor toolbar, accessed by clicking the “Kitchen Sink” button.
HTML View: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">underlined</span>
Series: WordPress Visual Editor Tool Bar – Introduction
October 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WordPress comes equipped with some great features to allow you to easily format your blog posts and pages without knowing or even seeing the underlying HTML coding. While die-hard coders and advanced users may tell you to get rid of the editor I think it’s more valuable to learn to use the editor effectively, especially if the thought of learning HTML gives you hives. This article will cover the features and options included in the Visual Editor toolbar as it comes with WordPress and break down the function of each button along with how and when to use them! Many of the options are self-explanatory but some are not.
The Visual Editor, sometimes refereed to as the, Rich Editor or WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) Editor, is comprised of a sub-set of features from the much more extensive TinyMCE – Javascript WYSIWYG Editor. TinyMCE has a mind boggling number of options available. WordPress has, wisely, chosen to include only the most relevant functions to include in the WordPress edit post/page screens.
Here is the Toolbar as it looks when you start.
See that button at the end, with all the colored dots in rows? 
Click on it and the toolbar will expand to display more formatting options.
It should now look like this:
A whole new world of formatting options are now open to you! Hover over each of the buttons in the toolbar has a tool tip that will give a hint as to it’s function when you hover over for a moment to get a general idea of what each one does. Some plugins will add buttons to the visual editor toolbar. We will be covering the buttons available in a basic installation of WordPress.
We’ll continue this series by looking at each of the buttons and their functions individually.
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