Year: 2008

14 Effective Practical Security Tips for WordPress

How to protect your wordpress system from being hacked? Well, you just need tighten up the security principal to avoid these problems. These are very practical options to protect yourself from getting hacked. In truth, every protection can be broken but the point is not to cure but to prevent.

How to display the latest post from each category using WordPress query_posts

How to display a custom list of posts for wordpress blog which display the latest post from each category? Wordpress has a function to filter out the posts depending on certain criteria, the function is known as query_post. The template function query_post has several parameters that enables you to filter the posts for the Wordpress post output Loop.

Ultimate Rejection to be Rejected

Just found this from StumbleUpon.org. It’s cheeky and hilarious. Just read on and you will get de-mystified. It’s kind of sarcastic but that is the point of it. It’s a story about someone who have been rejected so many times and finally he stood up for his right. Here is the letter. Originally found from StumbleUpon and the actual website is here. Maybe someday we might also need to write letter like this one.

Sun and MySQL – What will be the future

’d like to think that the acquisition of MySQL by Sun will be seen as good news also by the core group of users who form the active MySQL community. This is because Sun is a safe haven for MySQL. Sun knows Open Source, and to the extent things change, I expect Sun to add value to our community. I don’t expect huge change, though. We continue to work with our quality contributors, we continue to provide our MySQL Forums, the Planet MySQL blog aggregator, we remain on the #mysql-dev and #mysql channels on Freenode, we provide MySQL University lessons, we meet at the MySQL Users Conference. We’ll put effort into connecting the many FOSS enthusiasts and experts at Sun — whom we will now learn to know better — with our active user community.