Recently a security flaw was identified in the Timthumb – an image cropping and resizing library commonly used in wordpress themes. This flaw could be exploited by a hacker to embed malware in your site. Luckily the flaw was identified by a good soul Mark Maunder and alerted the community about it. Not only he got the word out but he also started working on rectifying the timthumb script from ground up and was later joined by the original timthumb creator. Together they have released an upgrade for the timthumb script and it is called Timthumb-2. It is available here  [ Read More ]

WordPress has become one of the most popular pieces of web-design software on the market today. Designed to be as simple, basic and straightforward as a word processor (like Microsoft Word or WordPerfect), it is easy to use, intuitive to work with, and very inexpensive. The software itself is free, as it is open source and community based, thus requiring the user to do nothing more than hunt down cheap WordPress hosting in order to start their own website. Many companies, including WordPress itself, offer basic hosting for the purpose of making a blog. More advanced servers can offer cheap  [ Read More ]

I am proud to announce the release of my first paid wordpress theme on Mojo Themes.  The name of the theme is Trinity. Trinity is a premium business/portfolio  WordPress theme created for you. This is a feature packed theme that can transform your blog to an amazing  business website.  The template comes with 2 optional homepages and lot of custom widgets , custom templates, shortcodes etc. The theme packs in features like Custom Menu feature, Featured thumbnail, Theme option page, 8 Custom widgets, 7 widgetized areas, 2 different home page options, 3 different portfolio pages, Nivo slider, Customizable callout box,  [ Read More ]

Mojo-themes is one of the fast growing template market places out there. I am sure anyone who is reading this post would have been to their site atleast a few times. Their one-eyed- green-monster-pirate  mascot will quickly register that site into your memory. That is a clever marketing strategy. They started out an year back and steadily created large community of talented designers and developers. They showcase some really cool templates for different CMS softwares like WordPress, Majento, Tumblr, and also have email templates, PSD templates etc. Obviously my matter of interest is always WordPress templates and that brings us  [ Read More ]

The title of this post is an oft repeated question I receive in my emails and in the comment section of this site. “How to change my site name to a logo?”.  For someone with few basic skills in html and css , this wont be a big deal. But I am hoping this will help those who want to do this but unable to figure it out. This also works out easy for me , so that I wont have to reply to those mails separately.  I have created a screencast which will show you the entire process.  However  [ Read More ]

You will be familiar with wordpress themes with featured post sliders on the home page. I have a created quite a lot of them which you can find here. The sliders on those templates display posts with images from any category specified. Recently I got and email from a theme user asking if it is possible to show pages on these slider instead of posts. So I thought I will make a screencast of how to do it and post it so that it will useful for others as well. The reference material for this modification is available in the  [ Read More ]