Tag archive: wordpress
Distraction-free writing coming in WordPress 3.2
Text editors with completely clutter-free interfaces have been a rising trend for the last couple of years. Instead of having a user interface full of options, buttons, fields and other objects, distraction-free editors go completely blank – leaving only the text you write visible on the screen. It allows writers to put all focus on…
Commercial templates and premium WordPress themes
A lot of website visitors are asking about commercial website templates and premium WordPress themes, two things that are currently not available on andreasviklund.com. At the moment, there are no plans to add any premium content to the site, but I have sent out e-mails to webmasters of some really good template and theme provider…
Security alert: WP-DBManager plugin for WordPress
(Updated!) A WordPress plugin which I have used in the past (and liked a lot) is WP-DBManager by Lester “GamerZ” Chan. WP-DBManager is a tool that makes it possible to create and manage backups of WordPress MySQL databases automatically. Today I learned from a tweet by Joakim Jardenberg that WP-DBmanager has a confirmed, serious security…
Server and website upgrades
After a few days of low appearant activity where there have been some website issues and downtime caused by some kind of external overload attack, andreasviklund.com has been given a set of significant upgrades both in terms of server hardware, software and scripts. WordPress has been updated to version 3.1.2, existing plugins have been upgraded…
The AndyBlue theme for WordPress
I have added a new theme to the WordPress themes page: the classic AndyBlue theme by Matteo Turchetto. It was released in 2008 and has, as far as I can tell, not been updated in a long time. But it has been a popular theme ever since it was originally released and I still get…