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This weekend our Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team beat our arch rivals the Dallas Mavericks in the first round NBA playoffs. Actually the didn’t just beat them, they sweep them in four games. Go Thunder! In celebration of this great start, Main Street is bringing back our 5 hour labor block for the price of [...]

Two major premium theme developers have released security updates to their theme frameworks. These close holes that have recently been exploited by hackers and should be considered urgent updates. WooThemes.com has released version 5.3.12 of the WooFramework. They report it fixes a critical vulnerability in shortcodes that has been published online. They strongly urge immediately [...]

WordPress version 3.3.2 is now available and is a security update for all previous versions. This version provides security updates to several external libraries which handle uploads and flash content. It also closes some security holes in the handling of external links. We do recommend installing this update to secure your WordPress site. As always, [...]

WordPress version 3.4 is current in beta testing (details here). This version is due to be released in May. Currently the new features are limited to some theme customization options and some back-end optimization and international support. This will probably not be a critical update for many existing WordPress users. We’ll get more details on [...]

WordPress released a security and bug fix release earlier this month – version 3.3.1. This is a recommended update for your WordPress site. Details are at WordPress.org. As always, we recommend backing up your site before installing updates. Please contact Main Street if you help with the backups or update.

WordPress 3.3 has been out for several weeks now and we have not heard of any issues or problems with it. This release mainly streamlines the backend and makes site administration even faster and easier than before. We recommend making the update to 3.3 now. As usual, we recommend creating a backup of your site [...]

WordPress version 3.3 was released yesterday. There are the usual streamlining features and tweaks, but several new features that we are excited about: Single media upload button – all media uploads are done through a single button, the new media uploader includes drag & drop imports. Streamlined menus with popout submenus. Enhanced toolbar. Optimized for [...]

We want to do our part to help stimulate the economy and help get jobs for the unemployed #occupy protestors and NBA players. So for Black Friday we are offering 5 hour prepaid labor blocks for the 4 hour price – 5 hours for $400. We can’t guarantee your work will be done by a [...]

If you’ve done any research on hosting plans you’ve seen the deals: unlimited domains, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, only $4.95 per month. And these are major firms, not fly-by-night unknown companies. So how do they do it? Most of them are willing to give you unlimited everything as long as you don’t try to [...]

Main Street will be presenting a project management boot camp for web developers at the Div in Edmond, OK on Saturday, Nov 19, 2011. The class is free, but registration is required. Details and registration are available here. Class Overview: It doesn’t matter how well you sell, or how talented you are at web development [...]

Originally developed for blogging sites, WordPress has matured into an incredibly powerful, popular and well supported business website content management system. Here are six reasons why your website should be based on WordPress: 1.  WordPress slashes professional development costs. Three big costs on most websites are the content management software, graphic design and custom programming. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For years, theme developers have been creating sophisticated themes that let us easily change colors, backgrounds, and even column widths. But we’ve always had to revert to “programming” to change the way archives list or posts display. Even seemingly simple tasks like “listing only posts from category=’News’ in a widget area” required searching for plugins [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our buddies at iThemes just released Keen, the 40th child theme for their Builder theme platform. Keen provides a colorful, clean style for the powerful Builder theme. For more information, go to iThemes.com.

WordPress released the first maintenance update to the new 3.2 version today. This new version fixes JSON issues found on some servers and some minor tweaks to the dashboard and Twenty Eleven theme.

The new version 3.2 of WordPress was released on July 4, 2011. The focus of this version was to make WordPress faster and lighter. Several handy new features were added that experienced users will appreciate, but no major new features were included in this release. New Features: Faster & lighter – code was optimized to [...]

WordPress released a new security update on June 29. This is version 3.1.4. It seems to be limited to minor security and maintenance fixes. The update is available at WordPress.org.