WordPress AntiVirus Protection

Posted on September 7th, 2011

AntiVirus for WordPress is a smart and effective solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections. Special feature of this plugin is Manual testing with immediate result of the infected files, and Daily automatic check with email notification.

This really works.. I installed this plugin on a theme running  on justhost.com and it found a permalinks hack similar to the one on this link

http://mashable.com/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack/


Add Maintenance Mode to WordPress

Posted on September 6th, 2011

Link to Plugin

This plugin adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.

When the maintenance mode is activated, the following message is being displayed:

 

Of course you can fully modify this message in the plugin’s options.


How to create a simple WordPress theme

Posted on January 23rd, 2010

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple WordPress theme. When building your own theme, you can use our Free WordPress themes for reference.

How to create a basic WordPress theme?

To start building your theme, first create a sub-folder in the wp-content/themes directory in your WordPress folder. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will call the folder “tutorial_theme“. The name of the folder should correspond to the name of the theme you want to create. To do this you can use either your favorite FTP client or the File Manager tool in your cPanel.

Before you start creating the theme, you should decide how the layout of your website will look like. In this tutorial we will build a WordPress theme that consist of a header, sidebar, content area and a footer ,as shown below: (more…)