Carsonified is a “privately held company based in the United Kingdom, in a beautiful town called Bath. We focus on building web applications, while also offering world-class events for the web industry.”
They’re a bunch of awesome peeps who really are making the Web a better place. They’re also the creators of Future of Web Apps, Future of Web Design, and all those sweet conferences.
Designed by: Elliot Jay Stocks
Hey everyone, just a quick post letting you all know WordPress 2.3.3 has been released. According to WordPress.org, there was a flaw in their XML-RPC implementation, “such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog.” WordPress 2.3.3 also fixes a few minor bugs, so it looks like it’ll be a good idea to upgrade.
If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version of xmlrpc.php and copy it over your existing xmlrpc.php. Otherwise, you can just download the whole release.
The LaunchPad WordPress Theme is a unique theme for an easy and stylish way to park your site while it’s still under development. It’s a simple but effective theme perfect for what it’s supposed to do. It’s main feature is that it allows visitors to subscribe through RSS and e-mail.
One thing I don’t love about WordPress, is its way of including comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks all in one list, and doesn’t provide an easy option to separate them. Separating these gives your comments area a cleaner, more professional feel. Here’s how to do it:
The Music WordPress Theme has a really nice feel to it. I haven’t seen to many (if any at all) WordPress themes like this one. It has a toned down grunge feel but is still clean and well structured, unlike many grunge designs I’ve seen.
One difficulty of designing WordPress themes you plan to let others use, is linking to images within the template directory (where the stylesheet is). Fortunately, WordPress provides a tag for doing just that.
<?php echo(get_bloginfo('template_directory')); ?>
/images/ is the images folder inside your theme folder. You can link to a page in that folder (comments.php) or something inside the images folder:
<img src="<?php echo(get_bloginfo('template_directory')); ?>/images/rss_icon.gif" alt="" />
We can make linking to an image even easier:
<?php
$bloginfo_link = get_bloginfo('template_directory');
$image_link = $bloginfo_link . '/images';
?>
<img src="<?php echo $image_link; ?>/rss_icon.gif" alt="" />
We assign the template directory path to the variable $bloginfo_link and then put the directory path and the image folder path together.
