WordPress 2.5 Vulnerability Requires WordPress 2.5.1 Upgrade
Posted by Snap! on April 27th, 2008
As you may have noticed, we are missing a few blog posts (nothing significant) and some comments as a result of a recent database issue which is being investigated. Just so you are warned, multi-author WordPress install such as our own site should not be running version 2.5 for the reason we all have come to know as CVE 2008 1930. Upgrading to version 2.5.1 now will save you a lot of hassle, trust me us this.
We believe a recent attack on our site due to that WordPress vulnerability was responsible for the issues we encountered lately. We assure you that we have taken all the steps necessary to rectify it. Although the BBPress powered WP News Forum was linked, we were able to restore all the fields and posts without any loss of data.
Here are some symptoms and diagnosis for the issue:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172004
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168964
We will post a detailed step by step correction process once we confirm the issue was indeed related. Although having a backup of your database from pre-2.5 might help, we feel it can be accomplished without any backup.
Sunny has a post detailing some WordPress 2.5 troubleshooting tips!
Tagged: Tutorials, Web Tools, WordPress, WordPress 2.5, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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New WordPress Themes Updates #2
Posted by Snap! on April 23rd, 2008
As you may have noticed, we are behind in updating these pages. Without making any excuses, we will strive to bring the pending themes to current as quickly as possible. To facilitate it, we decided to preview 12 themes in the WP Themes section instead of the usual 6. This will remain in its current state until we are able to bring the pending themes to zero (or close to).
Thanks for you patience, a special thanks to our friends who are volunteering to help us out and continued support of WP Snap!
Tagged: Blog Posts, General, New WP Themes, WordPress, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Design Inspiration by Squid Fingers
Posted by Snap! on December 27th, 2007
These free patterns from Tennessee based designer Travis Beckham are a treat!
There are over 150 of these classic designs on his site Squid Fingers. Check em out.
Tagged: Design, Design Inspiration, Fractal, Free Downloads, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Resources, Graphic Designers, Graphics, Inspiration, Nature, Resources, Squid Finger, Travis Beckham, Web Design, Web Tools, free, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Theme Test Drive Plugin for WP Designers
Posted by Snap! on December 6th, 2007
Here’s a neat little plugin by Vladimir that allows WordPress designers and admin’s alike to test drive a new theme while the users/visitors of your site still enjoy and experience your “current theme”.
Of course your cache needs to be disabled while you are testing, but sure beats the old method of using Theme Switcher plugin with /?wptheme=newtheme to switch back and forth.
Give this plugin a test drive!
Tagged: Design, Design Tools, New Release, Resources, Test Drive, Tricks, WordPress CMS, WordPress Plugins, WordPress developers, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Google Penalizing Paid Links: Expert Review
Posted by Snap! on November 2nd, 2007
The Great Google God slap of ‘07 left many high-profile sites with a bloody nose. While there was much speculation elsewhere, StomperNet Faculty had a relaxed talk.
Levering the experience of internet and technology geeks such as Leslie Rohde, Chief Technology Officer of StomperNet, Dan Thies from SEO Research Labs, Jerry West from Web Marketing Now and Andy Edmonds, former head of Web Analytics at Microsoft, each one of them gave reasoned, researched and interesting opinions on what’s REALLY going on with Google, and how online businesses and blogs would get affected in the near future.
Enjoy the Podcast.
Tagged: Google, SEO, internet, wpsnap
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WordPress: Best Open Source Social Networking CMS
Posted by Snap! on October 29th, 2007
According to Matt, Packt Publishing has revealed that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System award. WordPress came out ahead of Elgg and Drupal.
Tagged: Open Source, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Red, Selection, WordPreciousss, WordPress CMS, WordPress Professionals, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Best WordPress Themes Demo is back!
Posted by Snap! on October 26th, 2007
The latency issues we had been experiencing have been resolved. Hopefully, there won’t be any more glitches.. if you do find some, please bear with us as we would try to fix it at the earliest. Thanks!
Tagged: Best WordPress Themes, Best of WordPress, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Sandbox Theme, Selection, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Site Issues and Theme Demo Down
Posted by Snap! on September 24th, 2007
We are experiencing some issues with the site and as you can tell, have been behind for the past 3 weeks and parts of our site (like the demos) are not working! Our host is trying to help, but we might need a larger server. We appreciate your continued support and hope to be able to get back in full swing shortly.
Tagged: PimpDaBlog, Selection, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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WordPress Themes for Aug 20-23
Posted by Snap! on August 23rd, 2007
Minyx 2.0 Lite, Terra Blue and FTW are new releases featured on wpSnap!
Confidence Coffee is a fixed width, three-column layout in brown and white.
Bicycling is a fixed width 979px, three-column layout, tested in the newest version WordPress 2.2 and WordPress 2.2.2.
Words of Wisdom is a 2 column dark WordPress theme.
Simply Beautiful is a neat 2 Column, easily customizable WordPress theme.
Green Art is a clean green blue theme with Widgets support by Depi.
Paradise Philippines is a cool WordPress theme, ideal for travel, communication and transportation related blogs, or even a personal blog.
Shadow Green is a neatly organized two columns layout with a widget-ready sidebar and 3 columns in the footer. It is gray in color with nice green headings.
4u Hemingway Red is a red version of 4u Hemingway theme by Utombox.
Particles is a lightweight 4 Column Theme from Devlounge.
Symbiot is a neat widget-ready 3 column WordPress theme with right sidebars and a fluid width.
Summer Sky is a neat 2-column WordPress theme.
Lvive is a professional WordPress Theme with rounded edges.
Tagged: Best WordPress Themes, Bicycling, Confidence Coffee, FTW, Keyboard Shortcuts, Misty Blue, New WP Themes, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Prosumer, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Upgrades, green art, lvive, minyx 2.0 lite, paradise philippines, particles, summer sky, symbiot, terra blue, words of wisdom, wpsnap
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How to Easily Add or Change Sandbox Design
Posted by Snap! on August 20th, 2007
There are many new designs that came out of the Sandbox design competition and each design comes with instructions on how to install them. Not following my gut, I decided to instead follow the included instructions and I find out that it never worked for me. So I decided to write my own instructions for those who are planning on using the Sandbox based designs without having to deal with the hassles I faced. BTW, if you have not noticed it already, we started featuring Sandbox competition designs and hope to have more for you soon.
What the instructions say?
It is critical to read this to understand the base structure and why it probably never worked for me.
If you plan on using a Sandbox design, you’ll need the Sandbox theme in the following folder with a file structure like:
/wp-content/themes/sandbox/style.css
This makes sense, Sandbox is a complete theme and when activated works as is.
The instruction also recommends the design file structure is set as below:
/wp-content/themes/some-design-name/style.css
(where some-design-name is the name of the design)
This is the part that does not work for me, mostly all designs are just that: a CSS file and some images, they do not have any template files like index.php and in almost every case result in a “Template is Missing” error when you go to Admin >> Presentation >> Theme.
Irrespective of the WP version you use, or even using the /wp-includes/themes.php patch for Sandbox results in this error, in short, using the instructions included with the design just does not work (again it’s a personal experience, I might be screwing up some place).
So what did I do?
Instead of including the design folder under the main ‘themes’ folder, I placed it within the Sandbox theme folder like below:
/wp-content/themes/sandbox/some-design-name/style.css
I then opened the Sandbox themes stylesheet (/wp-content/themes/sandbox/style.css) and deleted all the styles below the comment /* Just some example content */
I then replaced the style import URL from
@import url(’sandbox-layouts/2c-l.css’);
to
@import url(’ some-design-name/style.css’);
That does it, simple aye.
Tagged: Best WordPress Themes, Blogging Tips, Copyrights and Licenses, Design Tools, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, RSS Feeds, Resources, Sandbox Theme, Selection, Thumbnail viewer plugin, Tips, Web Tools, WordPress, wpsnap
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WordPress Themes for Aug 17-19
Posted by Snap! on August 19th, 2007
Bravery is a 2 column, red, black and white WordPress theme with menu in sidebar and bottom, featuring bold colors.
Sea Turtle is blue and has a 2 column layout. It’s a nature, sea, ocean theme.
Palms is a yellow and olive, travel, vacation, tropical theme.
Froggy is a yellow, green and red nature theme showing an exotic frog.
Traffic Lights is a cool dark WordPress theme. Ideal for travel, communication and transportation related blogs, or even a personal blog.
Take-off is a 2 column Travel and Vacation WordPress theme.
Summer Holidays is a widget-ready narrow fixed width theme perfect for a journal.
Glossover is a 2 column WordPress theme with color options.
iPhone is a 2 column WordPress theme for a tech blog.
Tagged: Big Tech Blog, Deep Blue Sea, Design, Froggy, Glossover, Keyboard Shortcuts, New WP Themes, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Prosumer, Summer Holidays, Take-off, Tech Blog, Traffic Lights, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, iPhone, wpsnap
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WordPress Themes for August 15, 16
Posted by Snap! on August 16th, 2007
Napa Vine Yard is a 2 column, earthy farmland theme, with a gold and black color scheme.
Lime Lover has a 2 column layout, green and white in color.
Envision 3C is a clean Web 2.0 theme with rounded edges by Mandarinmusing and Headsetoptions.
Tarsier Paradise is a 2 column widget-ready WordPress theme.
Brick is a orange and grey Brick WordPress theme with support of Widgets, comes with PSD source file and fonts.
Simeh is a quirkly night-time theme ideal for a dream journal or anyone who just likes stars!
Son-day, Lonely Planet and Spiritual by Jinsona.
Blue Green is a minimalistic 3 column, widget-ready theme, similar to Big Blue.
Blue Sands is a 3 column, widget-ready theme based on the Sandbox Theme.
Clean is a 4 column fluid white layout and Screen is a 3 column, fluid black layout with an edgy style.
mintLight is a one column green and white theme.
Day Dreams by etiangsonizer and Games Blog by Pearl-35059. (Links not provided)
Tagged: Blue Sands, Brick, Clean, Keyboard Shortcuts, Lime Lover, Lonely Planet, Mint Light, Napa Vine Yard, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Screen, Simeh, Son-day, Spiritual, Tarsier Paradise, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpsnap
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