WordPress 1.5.1.3 was released this morning. This release contains a security fix that is well worth having. Whilst the particular vulnerability hasn’t been officially announced, it’s not too hard to figure it out.
I’ve just upgraded the dozen or so blogs I manage and it was quite painless. There are some other fixes along with the security fix so don’t hesitate to get it.
Happy Birthday Sue!
Lots of love,
Mike, Jan, and Jamie
xoxox
Who the heck is this cheeky so-and-so? Someone going by the name of ‘refekt’ has thrown up a WordPress blog with half-a-dozen or so of my blog postings under their own name! They even gone so far as to reproduce the markup I used as well as the blog being one of my themes.
The blog is at podzice.com. The domain is owned by Chi-Tak Chow of whitewater, WI.
I’ve contacted the hosting service and cc-ed the Administrative Contact for the domain. Alas the latter bounced immediately.
update 1:20am: Here’s another one. www.golig.com/wp This time just taking the headlines and first few words, presumably to have some content to experiment with.
Update 26/06/2005: I’ve had no response from either the owner or the hosting company and there are a couple of new stories on there now (neither are mine). So I went ahead and registered on his blog (you have to register in order to comment). I’ve left a polite comment on each of the 8 or 9 posts which have been stolen from me. They are flagged for moderation, I await a response.
Resolved! 26/06/2005: Chris Parkerson at his hosting company has removed the posts with my content! Great. Thanks Chris!
I also got a separate email from the owner of the site explaining he had given posting privileges to the guy who was responsible and won’t be doing that again.
I have released new versions of all my Journalized themes. These releases incorporate fixes and suggestions made by everyone trying out the themes. They each have their own page now! Here’s the list:
Update 7 Dec 2008: This theme is superseded by Journalized Theme version 2.7. Please use that version from now on.
Update 12 Nov 2008 There is a new Beta version 2.7 available to try, see the theme page for details. Please download it and give it a try.
This version is now defunct and will no longer be maintained.
On this page you can find the latest version of my blog layout and colour scheme as a WordPress theme.
Clicking the thumbnail below will show you a full size screen shot of the theme in action.
This release incorporates many of the fixes and changes suggested by people trying the theme.
You can download the files from here: journalized-blue-theme-1.0.3.tar.gz (tar ball for unix or similar users) or journalized-blue-theme-1.0.3.zip (zip file for Windows users).
To install simply expand the archive on your local machine. You should have a directory called ‘journalized-blue’. Upload the directory and the files within it to your wp-content/themes folder on your server. Login to your blog’s administration pages and go to the Presentation page. The new theme should be listed there ready for you to select. If not check the permissions on your uploaded files.
Enjoy! The theme is licensed under the GPL. So you may modify it and distribute it. Please let me know if you use it, modify it, etc. If you have any questions leave a comment on this post with your question. Comments are moderated so you won’t see your comment immediately.
The main changes in the themes are these:
I’ve added missing tags to the main section of the theme. That is, the ‘Previous Entries’ and ‘Next Entries’ links after the main content. I’ve also added in the Next and previous story links above the post when you are looking at an individual post.
In the side bar I’ve removed all the get_links() and get_linksbyname() calls and substituted a single call to get_links_list().
I’ve adjusted the CSS to display the nested unordered lists from the call to display like the h4/rightsidesection combination we had before.
I’ve added a page template for pages like this one with slightly different layout for the content. There are some minor bug fixes on the pages and I’ve added the the fix for aligned or floated images not displaying in Internet Explorer.
Update: 27/06/2005
Because the side bars are narrower on Journalized blue than Sand or Winter, the calendar on the right hand side doesn’t quite fit.
A quick cure is to change the padding in the cells. You need to edit the table#wp-calendar td rule in style.css
Go to line 307 and change the 3 pixel padding to 2 pixels. It should end up like this:
table#wp-calendar td {
padding: 0px 2px;
color: #000000;
text-align:center;
}I’ll issue a new version as soon as I’ve incorporated another fix and some recent changes.
Wow! My visitor counter passed the 250,000 mark yesterday evening. That’s the count of real visitors since April 2003. More than a third of them this year.
My page hit counter is close to 3 million. It should reach that in the next few days.
