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Backing up your WordPress database with WP-DB-Backup

megastarmedia — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:04:53 +0000

I emphasized the importance of backing up in my basic security tutorial, but I discovered all of the backup tutorials I found were out of date. So here’s a tutorial on backing up your WordPress database with the terrific WP-DB-Backup plugin. The great thing about this plugin is that you can have it automatically send

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/19

megastarmedia — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:04:43 +0000

Reflections

Perfect for photofolio blogs or websites using WordPress. Support threaded comments and pretty simple to use. Page in Malay
Homage

Homage is a two-column layout WordPress theme, with a right-hand sidebar. Plus a static pages menu, a replaceable logo area and paged- and threaded- comments.
K9

K2 inspired theme for WordPress. Key features include: widgets support, custom header, threaded

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/17

megastarmedia — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:04:06 +0000

New Plugins
Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter
Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter creates a draggable window with informations about all functions hooked to Wordpress actions and filters, and lists all conditional tags.
Hikari Unicornified Gravatars
Hikari Unicornified Gravatars converts avatars from people that don’t have a Gravatar, into customized unicorns.
Tal.ki Embeddable Forums
Add a forum, message board, or discussion board to your blog. This

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VideoPress Review

megastarmedia — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:04:55 +0000

Within this review, I will provide an objective view on the video-hosting service called VideoPress (owned by Automattic).
Now I will be one of the first to admit that I am somewhat of an Automattic fanboi. I love WordPress, and use several of Automattic’s other services. However, even I was skeptical of what I

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How To improve basic security on a fresh WordPress install

megastarmedia — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:04:33 +0000

WordPress developers take security very seriously, and many security experts evaluate WordPress’s code for flaws. Security updates are made frequently to keep users safe. However, there are some extra steps you can take to make a fresh installation of WordPress more secure and protect against future attacks. Remember, no system can ever be completely secure,

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/13

megastarmedia — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:04:22 +0000

SuperBlog

Light and clean theme for personal blogs. Three column, widget ready.
HalfCircle

HalfCircle , comes with theme option, embedded flickr widget to display your flickr image and other features.
Sextant Globe

A very simple free WordPress Theme 1000px wide with 1 Sidebar and an Option Page to populate the Footer.
5 Free Sport Wordpress Themes

As spring progresses and the weather

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WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/11

megastarmedia — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:04:11 +0000

New Plugins
WP Comsoon
WP Comsoon (from “Coming Soon”) creates a little widget for the sidebar to display the titles of the next scheduled posts of the blog.
Rico Bookmark Tree
This plugin can create a simple bookmark list with a tree structure on a post using Rico Ajax
Simple Author Box
Adds a simple author box with Gravatar image below

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WordPress Theme Releases for 04/09

megastarmedia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:04:01 +0000

Gray01

Gray01 is a three column theme. In the theme options panel it is possible to configure social network links.
ALogo

The theme comes with simple but unique design, theme option, embedded flickr widget to display your flickr image and other features.
WoW Blue

2 column, fixed width, widget ready theme for World of Warcraft related blogs

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SxSw Geek Yearbook: 5 Lessons Learned About Social Media Games

megastarmedia — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:04:00 +0000

South by Southwest Interactive 2010 has come and gone, so now it’s time to don our beer goggles and rose colored spectacles to relive the hazy memories of our time in Austin. This year, The Blog Studio decided to do something special at SxSw, to encourage everyone to make new friends and have a good time. Towards this end we created an interactive game, SxSw Yearbook. Although we’r Read the rest of this entry »\'

WordPress Plugin Releases for 04/07

megastarmedia — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:04:23 +0000

New Plugins
Hikari Enhanced Comments
Comments are enhanced with new features that make them more visible and becoming more exciting in website structure.
MediaRSS with Post Thumbnail
Adds <media> tags to your feeds with post thumbnail support which came with WP 2.9 version.
Share and Follow
Designed for average users to use, ideal for developers who want to save time, this

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