WordPress as a CMS (Part 3)

Going Beyond Setup – Design, Look and Feel Once you have WordPress installed and setup as a both a CMS and blog you need to think about your website design, Look and Feel. There are several ways to go about this, but they all start with your deciding what you want your site to look [...]

Word Press as a CMS (Part 2)

How to Setup WordPress as a CMS I am going to assume you have WordPress installed on your virtual server which can either be done via the control panel or manually.  This posting is focused just on setting up WordPress as a workable CMS and a blog. I am not going to delve into plugins, [...]

Security Alert – WordPress 2.85 and below

- Release date: November 11th, 2009 – Discovered by: Dawid Golunski – Severity: Moderately High Problem: WordPress  versions 2.85 and below allow unrestricted file uploads and arbitrary PHP code execution. Impact: It is possible for a hacker to upload scripts that can be run on the server, view website source code which could allow them [...]

Word Press as a CMS (Part 1)

Investigating using WordPress as both a CMS and Blog When I was first told that one could use WordPress as a CMS I was thinking inside a very small confining box and thought, “why in the world would anyone ever want to do that?” The basis for this thought was totally from a narrow minded [...]

WordPress as a CMS? Maybe, maybe not. (Intro)

Sitting on a Fence Overview – Many web designers are looking at or currently using WordPress as a Content Management system for their clients. As with any technology there are trade-offs that must be considered. In order to explore this more fully we decided to implement a new site devoted to our Linux Virtual Servers [...]