Note: CSS changes can cause a really sticky cache when background images are changed, they tend not to update unless you clear your cache.

A good WordPress backend has options to change page titles, use custom post types easily so that you can “target” various pages you want to customized without editing PHP.

This makes it so that you can see, your client can see, and you can more easily find your customizations later.

Another huge reason why is so that your WordPress theme updates don’t overwrite your custom WordPress pages so they don’t go away silently or worse yet…break your PHP code.

My top 3 WP frameworks are:

Genesis - good SEO for WordPress with page by page Meta Titles and tags. If you want to remove the WordPress H1 page title from the top of the page click here.

WooThemes - good modern WordPress themes with highly flexible options in the frameworks

RocketTheme - amazing themes and powerful plugins. To use the “Gantry” frameworks, which was created for Joomla, lots of it is done using widgets, however you’ll want a Gantry tutorial on positioning because these widgets are movable on a page using a unique system with sliders and number of widgets in a row. Gantry is using the standard 960px layout, and can be made fluid or liquid as well.

The quickest way to find it is to look inside your theme folder. WordPress by itself has a thumbnailer which does not have the vulnerability, so you may not have it. Usually it’s the theme’s author that may decide to use Tim Thumb to resize images.

If you can’t find it and are still concerned, and you use Cpanel file manager search your public_html folder for “thumb”.

If you really want to find and update TimThumb.php even if it’s using another name, SSH in to your server (if you can) and issue this command (from: http://wordpress.shadowlantern.com/2011/08/timthumb-php-is-vulnerable/)

find ~/public_html -type f -wholename “*wp-content*” -name “*.php” -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Hl “TimThumb”

PS. Here’s the updated TimThumb file that is patched:

http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/source/browse/trunk/timthumb.php

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/

If you reload the page or click this link again, you’ll get another unique WP salt. This is how to have your own WordPress salt that no one else has (likely).

How to set: ServerSignature Off ServerTokens Prod

If you simply hit the “Enter” or “Return” key on your keyboard it will create a new paragraph.

Reset your password in WordPress by PHPMyAdmin:

Begin by logging into phpMyAdmin and click databases.

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• A list of databases will appear. Click your WordPress database.

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• All the tables in your database will appear. If not, click Structure.
• Look for wp_users.
• Click on the icon for browse.
• Locate your Username under user_login
• Click edit

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• Your user_id will be shown, click on Edit
• Next to the user_pass is a long list of numbers and letters.
• Select and delete these and type in your new password.
• Type in the password you want to use. Just type it in normally, but remember, it is case-sensitive.
• In this example, the new password will be ‘rabbitseatcarrots’
• Once you have done that, click the dropdown menu indicated, and select MD5 from the menu.

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• Check that your password is actually correct, and that MD5 is in the box.

• Click the ‘Go’ button to the bottom right.
• Test the new password on the login screen. If it doesn’t work, check that you’ve followed these instructions exactly.

add_action('get_header', 'child_remove_page_titles');

function child_remove_page_titles() {

  if (is_front_page()) {

  remove_action('genesis_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_title');

  }

}

The author of Contact Form 7 has now updated his code so that the form is fully compatible with WP v3.

In case the upgrades don’t go smoothly:

I’d copy the actual contact form code into text files before upgrading WP. Then upgrade contact form 7, then see if they dissappear. In that case I’d paste them back in to the desired form from scratch an