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Whirling

Free Website Templates — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:20:09 +0000

Type – templates
Author – webtemplateocean

Added – 2011-03-16
Downloads – 10

Free css web template, 960 pixels wide design

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Cornered

Free Website Templates — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:31:20 +0000

Type – templates
Author – freewebsitetemplates

Added – 2011-04-24
Downloads – 4

This is a simple blog style layout that includes a jQuery slider in the header area.

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ftdkiwi

Free Website Templates — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:21:17 +0000

Type – templates
Author – metamorphosis

Added – 2011-03-11
Downloads – 14

Free CSS website template from FlashTemplatesDesign

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Adelle

My Template Box — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:29:32 +0000

Adelle is a new elegant wordpress theme which is perfect for health, fitness, nature and environment blogs.

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Tomatoe

Free Website Templates — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:21:05 +0000

Type – templates
Author – freecsstemplate

Added – 2011-03-13
Downloads – 15

Two-column template design for simple small business website and personal website.

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Admin Bar Tricks

Diggin In — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:30:47 +0000

According to our latest poll, so far the votes are pretty much split on whether people love, hate, or don’t care about WordPress’ new Admin Bar. Over time, it looks like “Hate it” has started to pull ahead, but it doesn’t matter because the Admin Bar is here to stay, regardless of opinion. Already there are many awesome ways to make it do virtually whatever you want. In this DigWP post, we round up a ton of tips, tricks, and plugins for ultimately mastering the WordPress Admin Bar.

Here is our menu of Admin Bar Tricks for WordPress 3.1 and better:

Disable the Admin Bar for individual users

By default, each registered user has the option of showing the Admin on the frontend and/or back-end of the site. Thus, to change your preferences, just visit Users > Your Profile and choose your options as seen here:

Unfortunately, this gets kind of tedious when customizing profiles for many users. Fortunately, we’re just getting started, so read ahead to see more efficient ways of disabling and modifying the WordPress Admin Bar.

Disable the Admin Bar for all users of the current theme

To cleanly disable the Admin Bar for all users of your theme (and thus your site), add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:

// disable the admin bar
show_admin_bar(false);

Alternately, you may use this method, which filters the show_admin_bar function:

// disable the admin bar
add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');

Another option is to hide the Admin Bar using CSS. To do so, paste this into your
theme’s style.css (or other stylesheet):

/* hide the admin bar */
#wpadminbar { display:none; }

Disable the Admin Bar for non-Admins only

Expanding on the previous example, here are two snippets that disable the Admin Bar for non-Admins and Editors. Place either of the following in functions.php:

// show admin bar only for admins
if (!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
	add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
}
// show admin bar only for admins and editors
if (!current_user_can('edit_posts')) {
	add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');
}

As you might guess, any setting may be used for current_user_can(), so it’s easy to show/hide the Admin Bar for any particular group of users.

Clean up User Profile Page

After disabling the Admin Bar, you may want to hide its display settings in each user’s Profile Page. The easiest way to do this is with a simple function:

function hideAdminBar() { ?>
<style type="text/css">.show-admin-bar { display: none; }</style>
<?php }
add_action('admin_print_scripts-profile.php', 'hideAdminBar');

Just place that in your theme’s functions.php and you’re good to go. No more Admin Bar Settings displayed in the Admin area.

Always show the Admin Bar

Follow the white rabbit shows us how to show the Admin Bar even when logged out. As a bonus, a handy “Log in” button is added to the bar for easy maneuvering. Just add the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file:

// always show admin bar
function pjw_login_adminbar( $wp_admin_bar) {
	if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
	$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array( 'title' => __( 'Log In' ), 'href' => wp_login_url() ) );
}
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'pjw_login_adminbar' );
add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_true' , 1000 );

You can see it in action at follow the white rabbit.

Move the Admin Bar to the bottom

Want to display the Admin Bar at the bottom of the page instead of the top? WPengineer shows us how with this bit of CSS via the functions.php file:

// move admin bar to bottom
function fb_move_admin_bar() { ?>
	<style type="text/css">
		body {
			margin-top: -28px;
			padding-bottom: 28px;
		}
		body.admin-bar #wphead {
			padding-top: 0;
		}
		body.admin-bar #footer {
			padding-bottom: 28px;
		}
		#wpadminbar {
			top: auto !important;
			bottom: 0;
		}
		#wpadminbar .quicklinks .menupop ul {
			bottom: 28px;
		}
	</style>
<?php }
// on backend area
add_action( 'admin_head', 'fb_move_admin_bar' );
// on frontend area
add_action( 'wp_head', 'fb_move_admin_bar' );

This code adds the required CSS to both the front-end (public pages) and back-end (admin pages). To disable for one or the other, just comment-out or remove the corresponding add_action() line near the end of the code. You could also just copy/paste the CSS into your theme’s style.css file if you only need to move it on the front-end of your site. An even easier way is provided by Coen Jacobs’ Stick Admin Bar To Bottom plugin that makes it happen automagically.

Add or Remove links from the Admin Bar

WPMU.org shows us how to add/remove links from the Admin Bar. This is especially useful for MultiSite networks, where all of the extra links may not be necessary. The following code may be used to remove links and/or menus (via functions.php:

// remove links/menus from the admin bar
function mytheme_admin_bar_render() {
	global $wp_admin_bar;
	$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('comments');
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' );

For this example, we use remove_menu('comments') to remove the comments dropdown list. To remove a different link/menu, check /wp-includes/admin-bar.php for the corresponding ID. Here’s a list of some of them to get you started:

my-account – link to your account (avatars disabled)
my-account-with-avatar – link to your account (avatars enabled)
my-blogs – the “My Sites” menu if the user has more than one site
get-shortlink – provides a Shortlink to that page
edit – link to the Edit/Write-Post page
new-content – link to the “Add New” dropdown list
comments – link to the “Comments” dropdown
appearance – link to the “Appearance” dropdown
updates – the “Updates” dropdown

To add links/menus to the Admin Bar, add the following code to your functions.php file:

// add links/menus to the admin bar
function mytheme_admin_bar_render() {
	global $wp_admin_bar;
	$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
		'parent' => 'new-content', // use 'false' for a root menu, or pass the ID of the parent menu
		'id' => 'new_media', // link ID, defaults to a sanitized title value
		'title' => __('Media'), // link title
		'href' => admin_url( 'media-new.php') // name of file
		'meta' => false // array of any of the following options: array( 'html' => '', 'class' => '', 'onclick' => '', target => '', title => '' );
	));
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' );

You’ll want to adjust the parameters to fit your needs, and don’t forget to see the Codex for additional information. For even more insight into this technique, see WPengineer’s post on adding menus to the Admin Bar.

Disable and Customize the Admin Bar with Plugins

Almost immediately after the Admin Bar was added to the WordPress core, plugins started popping up to disable it, move it, minimize it, and more. Here’s a quick list of plugins and links for ultimate control over the Admin Bar.

If you know of others, mention them in the comments and we’ll add them to the list!

More Admin-Bar Resources

Here are some excellent resources for more information on the WordPress Admin Bar.

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How to show an urgent message in the WordPress admin area

Wp Recipes — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:00:47 +0000

The following is a snippet of my custom function that shows a message to the user. This be used from anywhere in your theme or plugin if you wanted to give the user a standard message. e.g. “Settings successfully updated” or something similar.

/**
 * Generic function to show a message to the user using WP's
 * standard CSS classes to make use of the already-defined
 * message colour scheme.
 *
 * @param $message The message you want to tell the user.
 * @param $errormsg If true, the message is an error, so use
 * the red message style. If false, the message is a status
  * message, so use the yellow information message style.
 */
function showMessage($message, $errormsg = false)
{
	if ($errormsg) {
		echo '';
	}
	else {
		echo '';
	}

	echo "$message";
}

Now we just add a hook to the admin notices function to show our custom message.

/**
 * Just show our message (with possible checking if we only want
 * to show message to certain users.
 */
function showAdminMessages()
{
    // Shows as an error message. You could add a link to the right page if you wanted.
    showMessage("You need to upgrade your database as soon as possible...", true);

    // Only show to admins
    if (user_can('manage_options') {
       showMessage("Hello admins!");
    }
}

/**
  * Call showAdminMessages() when showing other admin
  * messages. The message only gets shown in the admin
  * area, but not on the frontend of your WordPress site.
  */
add_action('admin_notices', 'showAdminMessages');

And that’s all there is to it!

Thanks to Dan Harrison of WordPress Doctors for the tip!

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290 corner

Template Mo — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:28:49 +0000

Corner Template is a one page layout with 5 different sections. Template is designed using beautiful yellow corners and almond background color.
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Added: Mon, 14 March 2011 11:32:11 +1300
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metamorph bubbleblue

Free Website Templates — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:21:24 +0000

Type – templates
Author – metamorphosis

Added – 2011-03-09
Downloads – 25

Free 5 pages CSS website template from Metamorphosis Design

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Best wordpress plugins for wordpress security and protection

WordPress API — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:26:43 +0000

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I faced lot of issues with my clients site. They many times came to me with saying “my site is hacked” data has been deleted or something like that.

For wordpress security and protection purpose you need to add some wordpress plugins in your wordpress blog so your blog will be never hacked by hackers.

I created list of wordpress plugins which are best for wordpress security and protection.

Exclusive Content Password Protect

Exclusive Content Password Protect is a plugin that allows you to hide a section (or multiple sections) of content on your page or post. Use this to create exclusive content that you only want email or RSS subscribers to have access to. Once they enter in the global password once, they will have access to all content from then on. Plus you can use passwords for certain sections to have even more exclusive content.

Password Protect WordPress

Password Protect WordPress plugin for WordPress is an easy to use plugin to restrict all access to your blog by the use of a single password.

No user accounts – just a single password. Easy to use admin panel. Internationalized to make translations easy. Compatible with extensions (updates don’t overwrite customisations)

Ultimate security check plugin

This plug in is very useful to wordpress security as this plug in scans your blogs with hundreds of known threats and identifies security with your wordpress installation and then gives you a “security grade” that how well you have protected yourself and you can fix the problems your self also.

Wp security scan plugin

This plugin will scans your whole wordpress installation for security vulnerabilities(weaknesses) and suggests you corrective action for that particular thing. It scans for security vulnerabilities like passwords,file permissions,database security,word press admin security,version hiding etc.

Bulletproof Security

This plugin protects the WordPress blog or site from XSS and SQL injection hacks.

F-Secure Safe Links

This plugin protects your site visitors and readers better by displaying what links on your site are safe to navigate to. More specifically it checks outside links for security threats.

WP Security Scan

This plugin will basically scan your hosted WordPress site or blog and identify any potential security risks or issues. After all risks are outlined the plugin then suggests potential fixes.
Having your site or WordPress blog hijacked is not a pleasant experience. If hackers are successful, they can perform a complete wipe of all site content or even destroy important site files.

In order to better protect your site you can install certain security plugins to protect the internal content from outside sources. But keep in mind that while security plugins do help better protect the site, they will not completely prevent serious attacks. That is why a good habit to fall into is to routinely backup your WordPress content. If you don’t know how to do a full WordPress database backup, check out our related article

After you know how to backup your WordPress database it’s time to install those security plugins we were talking about. Heres a list of the most useful security plugins out there.

It should also be noted that the more plugins you have installed, the more vulnerable your site is to outside hackers- especially if the plugins and WordPress application is not up to date.

Bulletproof Security

This plugin protects the WordPress blog or site from XSS and SQL injection hacks.

Content Security Policy

This plugin will identify and suggest outside content for use in your blog or site, further protecting from certain injection attacks.

Bulletproof Security

This plugin protects the WordPress blog or site from XSS and SQL injection hacks.

Content Security Policy

This plugin will identify and suggest outside content for use in your blog or site, further protecting from certain injection attacks.

F-Secure Safe Links

This plugin protects your site visitors and readers better by displaying what links on your site are safe to navigate to. More specifically it checks outside links for security threats.

Login Lockdown

This plugin is designed to better protect your login page and information. Basically the plugin will record the source IP address connected to any failed login attempts. After several failed attempts the plugin blocks the related IP address ensuring forceful hackers or keylogging programs are rendered useless.

Askapache password protect plugin

This plugin is specially designed to add multiple layers of security to your blog using password protection. It is regularly updated to stop automated and unskilled attackers attempts to utilize vulnerabilities on your blog resulting in a hacked site. In this plugin you can use password protection using http basic authentication or digest authentication for your blog. The main benefit of this plug in is it creates a virtual wall to your blog to stop attacks before they even reach your blog to deliver a malicious payload.

WordPress File Monitor

This plugin basically monitors your entire WordPress site and notifies you by e-mail of any changes being made to the site content and database.

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