Although it isn’t very long after WordPress 2.8.1 was released, WordPress 2.8.2 was just released today and is a security update which corrects a XSS vulnerability which was discovered.   Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.
Due to [...]

Over the recent months we’ve been presenting various showcases of photography – while many readers hated the showcases, most readers found them inspirational and perfect for a lousy workday’s morning. However, what we should have done in the inspirational posts is not just provide you with some inspiration for your work, but also present useful [...]

Based upon last season’s NCAA tournament challenge we ran, I know many of our readers are also sports fans and big college basketball fans.  I’ve always had a strong passion for college basketball, making this my favorite week of the year!
If any of our readers would like to participate in a free and friendly NCAA tournament [...]

Some months ago, WpHacks introduced a site I just created, called WpVote. The purpose of WpVote was to give the WordPress community a Digg-like website where people can share their blog posts and promote it.
Many WordPress users thought it was a good idea and I quickly had a lot of members, due to the great [...]

WordPress’s default comment system isn’t exactly the greatest, and whilst you can improve the comment system manually, not everyone has the time or skill to do so. Thankfully, one of Automattic’s recent acquisitions, IntenseDebate can help.
Before we dive into installing IntenseDebate (which is really easy!), here is why you should use it, according to the IntenseDebate [...]

I’ve never been a major Twitter user, but I have long been fascinated with microblogging as a whole and think it is amazing just how popular and useful Twitter has become over the past year.   TV stations are starting to use it to gather feedback, our local sports radio station is sending out live score [...]

A lot of us are do-it-yourselfers when it comes to WordPress and even if we are only slightly technical WP makes is pretty easy. However, WordPress can, and often is, used for sites which are much more complex than the average blog and many individuals or small-to-medium businesses don’t have the time or the in-house [...]

A few days ago, I wrote a guest post on Pro Blog Design about creating a Stats page for your WordPress blog. One day later, Kyle, who liked the article, wrote a post here on WP Hacks to let you know about my guest post.  One of WP Hacks readers, Wesley, enjoyed the post and [...]

No matter how talented of a blogger you are, getting a blog started can be a very difficult thing to do.  This is primarily because there is still the problem with trying to get people to discover your blog.    Some people turn to social networking websites to try to drive that traffic (such as Digg, [...]

This will be my second post in as many weeks about related posts plugins, but after reviewing the related posts by category plugin last week, another plugin was brought to my attention.
This plugin is called the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, but it is much more than that.  I mentioned in my last post that [...]