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Who Uses WordPress?

By Terrell Sanders
Friday, August 26th, 2011

WordPress recently conducted their first ever user and developer survey. Over 18,000 responses were received from all over the world.

The results show most developers are using WordPress as a complete content management system, and not just blogging software. WordPress is the platform for a huge number of new business sites, and there are experienced WordPress developers on every continent except Antarctica.

Some highlights:

  • 14.7% of the top million websites in the world use WordPress.
  • 22% of new active domains in the US are running WordPress.
  • 61% of WordPress developers use it as a content management system without a blog.
  • Only 8% of WordPress sites are developed specifically as a blog.
  • There are over 6,800 WordPress developers worldwide.

Details and a “State of the Word” address are available here: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/08/state-of-the-word/

Categories : Developers, Ministry, Non-Profit, Small Business, Social Networking, WordPress

Web video production from Main Street

By Terrell Sanders
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Main Street now offers complete production of custom web videos starting at less than $500. We work with you to develop the script, then Main Street provides professional onscreen talent, the background with your logo, and all production and editing. You get a finished video formatted specifically for use on your website and youtube.com.

Check our video production page for details.

Categories : Developers, Ministry, Non-Profit, Small Business, Social Networking

URGENT: Security Vulnerability in Many WP Themes

By Terrell Sanders
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Many WordPress theme developers (including Main Street) have relied on a nifty little code plugin called TimThumb to resize images for WordPress themes. Yesterday a security vulnerability was discovered that can use this plugin to load malicious code on your site.

Current versions of WordPress do resizing automatically, but until recently developers had to rely on plugins like TimThumb for these functions. Unfortunately this flaw is in an incredibly popular plugin that major developers have used for years. All themes by ElegantThemes include this code.

We recommend all WordPress users verify that they are not running TimThumb on any themes installed on their site, even themes that are not active.

To determine if any of your themes use TimThumb, go to Appearance Menu > Editor. In the list of Templates on the right column you are looking for a file called timthumb.php. If you have that file in your theme, it needs to be updated immediately. Be sure to check each theme installed on your site, you can use the pulldown box in the upper right corner to select each theme. Do not edit anything. You can break your theme.

Update instructions vary based upon your theme, contact your theme developer or Main Street if you find the timthumb.php file in your theme.

This is a serious security threat and should be investigated immediately.

 

Categories : Developers, Ministry, Non-Profit, Small Business, WordPress, WordPress Plugins

Customized Themes Allow Inexpensive, Professional Sites

By Terrell Sanders
Friday, July 22nd, 2011

When the Cochrane Sustainability Plan came to us, they needed a professional site but had limited funds. They had ideas of what they wanted, but nowhere near the budget for a custom developed theme.

We consulted with them, helping them pick a Premium theme and then provided customization and support so they could complete the site content. They chose the popular Architect theme from iThemes.  With a few hours of customization they had professional looking site for a fraction of the usual cost.

Categories : Developers, Ministry, Non-Profit, Small Business, WordPress

WordPress Multi-Site Solution For California Church

By Terrell Sanders
Friday, July 15th, 2011

We just launched a new website for Trinity Church in Redlands, CA using WordPress multi-site.

Utilizing WordPress’ multi-site option we were able to create easily manageable sub-sites for each ministry, while keeping the administration and hosting in a single site. This gives each ministry the flexibility of their own site and content control, but still allows administrative access over everything by the central communications team.

A custom theme was developed which allows each ministry to be able to change the background, department header and widget areas on their subsite (but still retain the master header and footer and overall style of the parent site). Ministry sites can be accessed through the main navigation on the site home page, or through direct subdomains, ie. children.trinityonline.org, highschool.trinityoneline.org, missions.trinityonline.org, etc.

This site also included a custom interface with Google calendar, which automatically creates or updates Google calendar events based on items created in the WordPress site.

http://trinityonline.org

Categories : Developers, Ministry, Small Business, WordPress
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