Ever wished there was a quick way to access all your Genesis related items right from your dashboard? Well there is!

The Genesis Toolbar Extras plugin is accessible from your WordPress admin bar.

Easy access to the support forum, tutorials, community tutorials and showcase to name a few.

Check it out here

Genesis Toolbar Extras – A Plugin from David Decker @ DECKERWEB

A post on the Genesis forums today was asking about theme security. As I said on the forum the best way to secure your theme is to secure your site.

The WordPress codex is a great place to start gathering information. See the Hardening WordPress article.

To help beef up security via your .htaccess file place this in the file directly after

# END WordPress

# to protect the .htaccess file itself:
<Files .htaccess>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>

# to protect wp-config.php
<Files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

Options -Indexes

You can access your .htaccess file via FTP or cpanel by migrating to the root of your site [where your wp-content,wp-admin, wp-includes folders are]. Make sure that you have chosen to show hidden files.

There are a number of plugins which are also helpful with security just a few include;

WordPress Firewall
Antivirus
WordPress File Monitor

And finally do not underestimate the importance of keeping your themes and WordPress install up-to-date. Sometimes updating will ‘break’ something or require you to deactivate a plugin that has not been kept up-to-date, but these are small annoyances compared with the hassle, heartbreak and expense of a hacked site.

Keeping Your WordPress Site Secure

One of the drawbacks of using magazine themes is the way the content limiting features strip out code. This results in things like the excerpt of your story showing up as [caption id="attachment_1308" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption= Not exactly the well crafted look we’re going for.

Mediatricks has solved this issue with the Viva_Content_Trimmer plugin No more image code.

Another issue is that line breaks are non existent, Mediatricks to the rescue again with the Viva Line Breaks plugin.

Help for Magazine Themes