WordPress help forums

WordPress.org offficial forum has lots of unanswered and unresolved questions and the waiting time for highly technical questions may be long. Surprisingly, there are not many unofficial support forums for WordPress. The few out there are run by over-worked individual WordPress geeks. Some are closed while some are inactive and filled with spam. Considering the avalanche of premium sites offering WordPress themes and plugins, there is huge space for premium WordPress support. What do you think?

Do you need help with WordPress?

Here are some forums where you can get some WordPress support:

1. WordPress official forum

2. WP Tavern forum

3. Stack Exchange forum for WordPress.

4. IRC channel for WordPress support

Premium WordPress Theme Directories

Are you looking for premium WordPress themes? Here is a list of WP theme directories to sort themes by color, price, provider and niche.
Are you looking for premium WordPress themes? Here is a list ofpremium WordPress themes directories where you can find leading theme makers and sort themes by color, price, provider and niche.

1. Official WordPress directory for premium WordPress theme designers
2. Theme Sorter
3. WP Best
4. WordPress Premium
5. WP Hell

Useful WordPress Tips Websites

Are you looking for useful WordPress tips websites? Here is a list of websites offering regular updates on WordPress tips and tricks.
Are you looking for useful WordPress tips websites? Here is a list of selected websites which offer regular updates on WordPress tips and tricks.

Beginner WordPress tips:

1. WP Beginner
2. WP TV

Advanced WordPress tips:

1. WP Engineer
2. WP Recipes

Plugin release: Tag or Category term

We are glad to announce our first plugin called Tag or Category term_group Order.The purpose of this plugin is to group tags or categories from the WordPress dashboard. This allows queries that fetch terms to use ‘term_group’ as a sort order and and display them in a semantic way in archives and individual posts.

For example,

If we have three groups of categories for size, color and object, then categories displayed as

Small, Green, Table

Big, Blue, Chair

are more readable than

Table, small, green

Chair, big, blue

How to use WordPress SEO by Yoast and Scribe SEO?

WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast and Scribe SEO premium plugin are two essential plugins we use for optimizing page content. Here is a brief guide on search engine optimizing your posts using these.

Scribe SEO WordPress plugin

In your post / page edit view, you have two sections for SEO called:

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast
2. Scribe Keyword research, Scribe Content Optimizer, Scribe Link building.
WordPress SEO is a popular free plugin and quite straight forward.

Genesis Child Themes

Links for free and premium Genesis child themes by StudioPress and an analysis on the growing WordPress child theme trends.

Genesis WordPress theme framework

The beauty of Free Software is that it allows a healthy economy to grow around it.

While WordPress saw the growing industry of premium themes 3 years back, now I can see a new trend of child theme market growing on top of premium WordPress themes with GPL license. A good example is the number of 3rd party child themes available for the Genesis WordPress theme framework designed by StudioPress.

Here is a list of child themes for the Genesis theme framework available outside StudioPress:

How to fix Timthumb security issue?

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Timthumb.php is a popular script that is used to resize images dynamically in WordPress sites. This can be usually found in some popular premium  themes and image related plugins. Last week, a serious security issue was found in Timthumb. Unless, you update Timthumb to its latest version at once, your site is vulnerable for hacking. This is a serious threat affecting thousands of websites and even the WordPress founder Matt blogged about this. So, please act now.

Here are few simple steps to fix timthumb security flaw:

Update: Use Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner plugin.

1. Deactivate unwanted plugins.

2. Delete all inactive plugins and themes. If you have customised any of these themes or plugins, do take a backup in your computer.

3. Go through your active themes and image related plugins and look for a file called thumb.php or timthumb.php . This can be usually found in the root folder of the theme or in folders like scripts, lib etc., If you are looking at the right file, you will see the name of Ben Gillbanks and a link to this project. Woothemes, Gorilla themes, Thesis, early versions ofElegant Themes are some of the theme shops that make use of this script.