Add sidebars and widgets above below and in the content Sidebars and widgets are a great feature of WordPress as they enable the user to add persistent content in all (or just big set of)…

There are things that you just want to always keep in view of the people surfing your site. They might be site navigation options to help you expose more content, a contact form, an advertisement…

How easy it is to impersonate someone in a comment? very much, all I need to do is claim that I am Barak Obama (insert any other celeb) and no one can prove that it…

What should someone expect when he submits a comment? Most likely that his comment will be published, and that his email address will stay confidential. Some times you will want to state those expectation explicitly…

This plugin sends an email notification to a commenter when the author of a post replies to the comment. This is useful when you do not want to have a system of a non discriminated …

Your WordPress might be installed behind a proxy, whether it is a load balancer, caching server (varnish), or just use a lighter server as a front end to the main one (nginx as a reverse…

What is wrong with having a listing of user's post in {site name}/author/{user login}? Two things It allows an attacker to easily figure out the user name he should attack It can get ugly if…

The Gravatar service, which powers by default all of the avatars displayed at WordPress comments and admin areas is a service that was designed in a much more naive times, when the implications of bad…

WordPress has a global setting to control whether only registered users can comment, but sometime you need a more granular  control. For example you might want to require login to comment on all posts, but…