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Tighten security on your WordPress site
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Tighten security on your WordPress site

Being the most popular CMS on the block comes at a price. Unfortunately, WordPress sites are the most sought after by hackers for many reasons. First, its the most used CMS and is used by millions of popular sites. Secondly, these sites are usually ranked high and generate a good amount of traffic. Lets take [...]

Hack: WordPress post thumbnail or TimThumb
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Hack: WordPress post thumbnail or TimThumb

I ran into a snag with one of my WordPress themes that uses TimThumb to automatically take an article image and display it on the homepage. What if I wanted to implement the_post_thumbnail(); (WordPress 2.9+ hack) and override my TimThumb image?? I was able to acheive this using some simple PHP in the index.php file [...]