WordPress Themes & Web Security

gigaom.com — WordPress is growing quickly - both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations. The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute. Nov 27, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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rammsteined Nov 27, 2007

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WordPress is poorly designed from the start, just like a lot of other (mostly older) PHP scripts.This might sound like general bashing of PHP, but it isn't, because it's perfectly possible to write a secure, easy to use, easy to customize script in PHP, exactly what WordPress is not.If you want to look at a well written script, have a look at MyTopix (yeah, a forum), it uses a well thought out OOP software design and even better, it uses XSL for templating. See <a class="user" href="http://jaia-interactive.com/.">http://jaia-interactive.com/.</a>And no, I'm not affiliated with MyTopix in any way - I don't even use it!

senorjt Nov 27, 2007

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Well, you state this with such authority so I clicked on the link looking for a whitepaper or downloadable code. I found neither. So, are you privy to insider info or do you make your judgment of the product's superior design based on UI and workflow issues only?Curious.

phenomina3 Nov 29, 2007

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This is legit!! It would be really cool for up and coming programmers to practice. But, it could also be pretty bad if a hacker get into it. It's just a fun program that lets people write code while expressing themselves. Just leave it alone.....

rammsteined Dec 18, 2007