How to Password Protect Web Directories using htaccess ?

by Aky JoeFebruary 21, 2010
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At present, most of the Websites and blogs are hosted on Apache Server, which provides directory-level configurations for fine tuning and efficient performance of the website. Apache uses Hypertext Access files, that .htaccess file, which configures Apache’s Universal system-configuration directives.
Usually, a website or a blog, contains several private and sensitive information, and kept confidential for [...]

Impressive: Portfolio Premium Theme for Wordpress Blog

by ThemepremiumFebruary 20, 2010
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Impressive is another Wordpress Theme from Themeforest which is perfect for portfolio blog. This theme can be exclusively be used as a portfolio or you can showcase your product using this Theme.
Here are some of the features of this theme :

Jquery Slider
Widgetized Theme
Threaded comment
Gravatar supported
Wordpress 2.8+ ready

Great Support
Check out screenshot of the theme and do [...]

Check How Many Wordpress Has Been Downloaded: Wordpress Counter

by ThemepremiumFebruary 20, 2010
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Wordpress counter is a webpage created by Wordpress team to keep track of number of time Wordpress is downloaded by users all around the World.
The time when I checked how many time Wordpress has been downloaded it comes out to be 1,596,963.
The ticker is growing every second and no doubt Wordpress users are growing each [...]

Download Links to Old version of Wordpress

by ThemepremiumFebruary 19, 2010
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Some time when we try auto upgrade of Wordpress using default Wordpress upgrade option, Wordpress give many errors like memory exhausted or wp-includes/default-widgets.php on line 1038 or could be many other.
Solution to these problems are not very simple Like we might need to disable all the plugins using FTP or phpmyadmin. We  need to change [...]

Display Visitors Local Time And Date And Time In Wordpress blog

by furheadFebruary 18, 2010
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How to display the Visitors local time and date in a blog is one of the questions that php cannot answer (As it is a server side language).
To show your blog visitors local time and date ,we are going to use a simple 3 liner java script code.
So to display the local time of your [...]

Wordpress Security: Disable directory browsing using htaccess on Apache Web Server

by Aky JoeFebruary 17, 2010
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Is your website or blog using Apache Web Server ? Well, beware of the fact, that directory browsing is enabled by default.

Below is a screenshot which will clear you something about directory browsing.

If you are particular about the security aspects of your web assets, you should disable directory browsing on Web server. There are two [...]

Wordpress Security: Restrict wp-content and wp-includes on wordpress using htaccess

by Aky JoeFebruary 16, 2010
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Today, blogging is really a keen medium of knowledge sharing, which is a boon to globalization. But Wordpress Blogs have been really vulnerable for its resources. Blogs have too many loop holes in terms of the security, like directory listing, especially in a hosted environment.
There are a lot of plugins developed everyday, so as to [...]

Wordpress 2.9.2 released Fix Trash Security Issue

by ThemepremiumFebruary 16, 2010
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Wordpress released 2.9 some time back and with it, it also introduced a new feature known as Wordpress trash. In which instead of deleting a comment or post, it can directly land into your trash folder.
Though it left with little bug that is, any subscriber of your blog can see the content of your trash [...]

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