Wordpress - am I opening a can of worms?

[Th3M8dH8tt3r]

You'd be better off just redirecting the domain.

 

[a_5mith]

One thing that is bugging me though. Is there anyway of getting the page titles from showing up as headings. It's not the end of the world if not but she'd rather they weren't like that.

Quickest way if you don't want them at all is to go into the theme files and find page.php, scroll down a bit until you see an H tag that looks like

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

Comment out that line of code by wrapping <!-- and --> around the H tags.

If your theme has full width page files and other page files, you may have to do the same with those.

If you get stuck then just ask.

 

[Th3M8dH8tt3r]

Don't edit the core files as when you update the theme you'll lose the changes.

Either add something in the fucntions.php, bit advanced perhaps so start a child theme which you should be doing if you're editing the theme anyway, and just hide them with CSS.

 

[ThePirateHulk]

With zero experience with Wordpress I managed to get the bare bones of a photography portfolio site with a nice theme up and running if just a few hours. Still a whole load of tweaking to do but not bad for such a short space of time.

http://www.macaulayuk.com

 

[Rikki]

I would recommend NOT putting Wordpress on your own site.

http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/51120

Been avoiding it for about 3 years now as there are always new hacks going around and unless you update ASAP you can be in deep poo.

Stick it on Wordpress itself and redirect as someone else mentioned.

 

[Rikki]

...better writeup ... http://threatpost.com/latest-wordpress-update-patches-seven-vulnerabilities

 

[AJK]

I would recommend NOT putting Wordpress on your own site.

Why would you recommend against using WordPress, when the recommended advice (for WordPress and basically ALL internet-connected software) is simply to keep it up to date?

 

[Rikki]

Because people dont keep it up to date, there is no auto updater that pops up on your PC like windows and says "do this now" and BadGuys(TM) generally find sites with out dated installations before sysadmins get round to installing new versions.

 

[michaelp]

Because people dont keep it up to date, there is no auto updater that pops up on your PC like windows and says "do this now" and BadGuys(TM) generally find sites with out dated installations before sysadmins get round to installing new versions.

To be fair Wordpress does scream out to be updated when your logged into the admin area with a big yellow call to action at the top of each page. Then there's other ways to help secure your Wordpress installation.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

 

[Rikki]

Its the sites that get put together, site owners are all hell for leather for the first few weeks - then they dont bother much. Then a vuln appears and bang... Welcome to infosec