• How to Diagnose and Remove the WordPress Pharma Hack from Pearsonified
• WordPress Site Hacked at WordPress.org forums
• What to do if your WordPress site is hacked at WordPress.org
• Hardening WordPress at WordPress.org
• The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout from Matthew James Taylor
• Redirect index.html to index.php from Convoluted Brian
• WordPress Mailing List Plugin from Tribulant
• Making Comments Stand Out by Tamba2

Large-scale WordPress Attacks – from the H Security site

Apparently it’s not too difficult to get rid of the hack, so it should not be a disaster if you get hacked. The big question is how are the hackers getting in. Nobody is quite sure yet. My guess is user names and passwords are being stolen by malware on people’s computers. So… the lesson here is always keep your anti-virus software up-to-date and have a good backup of your web site.

WordPress Gallery Shortcode with No Image Link

Unfortunately, this involves modifying one of the core files of WordPress, so you will lose the change every time you update to a new version. Maybe we’ll get lucky and future versions of WordPress will include this feature!

Also, here is the documentation page for using gallery shortcodes:

Gallery Shortcode

These shortcodes allow you to display a gallery in a page or post. The trick to setting up a gallery is to go into Media, Library and attach photos to a post or page. The shortcode will display all of the photos (or other media) that are attached.

Using Smilies in WordPress

I never knew you could put so many different smilies into a post!

WordPress support – How to swap a theme

Basically you’re just adding a test to the page template which tests what page you’re on, and shows a different header and footer for that page. Here’s the little code snippet from the page:

<?php
if(is_page('somepagename')) {
get_header('test'); // Looks for a file called header-test.php
}
else {
get_header(); // Looks for regular header - header.php
}
?>

If you wanted to make the home page have different header and footer files, you could use the is_home() function instead of is_page.

Justin Tadlock on Adding User Profile Fields

It’s as simple as adding two things into your functions.php theme file. Then you have access to that info in your theme. Sweet!

WordPress Attachment Extender Plugin from Benjamin Sterling

The plugin adds a file upload field to the media editing page. I wonder if they’ll integrate it into the next version of WordPress?

Become a Blogger

In 10 short videos, they’ve outlined the steps you need to take to get started with your own WordPress blog, and I highly recommend giving these videos a look. And of course, if you need any help implementing any of these ideas, we’re here to help.