Every month thousands of websites get hacked into and have hidden links inserted into the pages by people wanting their spam sites to rank highly in the search engines.

GAH! How did I not think of this on my own?!?! I LIVE by Google Alerts, and my site had been hacked for exactly this reason. I went through all necessary security thingies, but this is such a great solution that I could kiss you mate……

25 hand-picked, beautiful WordPress designs that showcase the creativity of its designer and the malleability of WordPress.

I hope these designs have inspired you to consider WordPress (if you aren’t already using it). If you’re working on a WordPress theme, why don’t you share it to everyone in the comments?

Wordpress is notoriously famous for going down during Digg Effect, a phenomena when 1000s of digg users try to visit a site in a very short time when it hits the front page, simulating a form of DDOS causing the site to go down.

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Have you ever wanted to own door numbers from Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa? How about a pillow, comforter, or drapes from the Polynesian Resort. Well, although you can buy surplus items from Disney while you’re in Orlando, you can also find these items on E-bay.

The Polynesian and Grand Floridian are undergoing renovation and much of the furniture and soft treatments are ending up online. Now, I presume many of these items are well used - as one would expect of surplus items from a hotel/resort….

Heres 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you dont even knew the keywords to search for.

Writely is one of my favorte Web 2.0 apps. It’s a full-fledged web-based word processor that you can access from anywhere. Think of it as Microsoft Word for the Web.

a list of useful WordPress tricks and you are probably already using some of them, if not going to when making a WordPress theme

Andrew, heh i’m glad you like it If you have some PW issues or questions go ahead and post them b/c that’s how i’ve written this article - people asked questions, so i’ll be happy to help..

TypePad AntiSpam offers a TypePad-native feature for free to other blogging platforms, including plug-ins for Movable Type 3/4+, WordPress 2.5 and is 100% Akismet-compatible. Unlike Akismet, TypePad AntiSpam is “free for everyone, regardless of how many comments you receive.” TypePad AntiSpam is open source for community improvement/development.

Calling all bloggers! Wed like to enlist your help in making TypePad AntiSpam the best, smartest, free antispam service available. Weve launched this beta version in an effort to make the service smarter, and were counting on your…

WordPress seems to be everywhere these days, and it's no wonder with it's ease of use and ease of customization. In this tutorial, I'll be dissecting the default WordPress theme's comments.php structure and giving you various snippets of code to make your skinning easier.

<?php comments_popup_link($zero_comments, $one_comment, $more_comments, $css_class, $comments_closed); ?> The first 3 parameters in this function are the same as the above comments_number function. $css_class is, obviously,…

70 Fresh And Modern Blogger Templates. Source: Mashable.

Polaroid - The header has been done nicely with lots of stuff that you can put in there. if you have a lot of content and categories to display, this is one that you might like.

Interesting timing considering the new Digg comments

Ryan, I agree with all your points (except the admin one, which never really bothered me) - I recently rolled out Disqus, too. I’m glad to hear they’re working on some big fancy trackback-esque thing, curious to…

Authorities Standardization in Brazil, South Africa and Croatia approve ODF as the national standard. More info you can find:
Brazil: http://homembit.com/2008/04/odf-is-now-a-brazilian-standard-nbr-isoiec-26300.html
South Africa: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365
Croatia: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7563/469

Brazil: http://homembit.com/2008/04/odf-is-now-a-brazilian-standard-nbr-isoiec-26300.html South Africa: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365 Croatia: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7563/469

Smashing Magazine puts together yet another great list of well-designed blogs. Very inspirational and some really unique designs made the cut.

I like the NZRN.com site and Mostly lisa i was familiar with. She’s pretty damned ballsy and a funny person to chat with too. I am mixed on a few of the more complicated ones. Some are too hard to read and too busy, but overall nice stuff.

With every site you build there are going to be security risks and issues, there is no way around this, it is going to happen. All we can do is minimize the damage, be ready for it and take action. Wordpress is now the most popular Blogging Engine, this will not mean an increase attacks, but it will have the highest potential.

URL: http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/backupwordpress/. Description: Almost identical as the first plugin, just not as straight forward. The list of features goes on and on, this is for the WP Pro. Some features: Database backup including…

Heres a list of a few news of this week in the WordPress community.

Technorati announced that all the blogger using WordPress must upgrade their software to version 2.5, due to some bugs found in WP 2.3.3 that lead to spam proliferation. What if you don’t upgrade? You’ll be banned by Technorati.