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One of the few downsides when it comes to using WordPress or other CMS, is that there is a risk that your site will be targeted by hackers. Ranging from simple brute force attacks to your login page. Learn how to prevent your WordPress site being hacked.

Every web developer should keep useful code snippets in a personal library for future reference. Today, I'm showing you the 10 most useful snippets and functions I have added to my snippet library from the past 3 months.

Happy Birthday, WordPress! WordPress turns 12. We´ll dive into stories from the WordPress community. Here are WP Daily Themes Weekly WordPress Roundup #11.

"Play any Youtube video as background of your page or as custom player inside an element of the page. A Chrome-less Youtube® video player that let you play any YouTube® video as background of your WordPress® page or post. You can activate it for your home page from the settings panel or on any post or page using the short code as described in the Reference section of the settings."

"Plugin to share about your old posts on twitter, facebook, linkedin to get more hits for them and keep them alive. What the plugin can do ? This plugin helps you to keeps your old posts alive by sharing them and driving more traffic to them from social networks. It also helps you to promote your content. You can set time and no of posts to share to drive more traffic."

Let´s take a look at the latest news and insights from the WordPress community. Here´s WP Daily Themes weekly roundup #13

"CleanPrint - Eco-friendly content output to print, PDF, email, Kindle, Box, Google Drive and Dropbox The world's best and most used eco-friendly print tool is now available on WordPress. Join top sites like NBC News, CNN, Disney and Fox Sports and offer your users an economically and ecologically friendly printing and saving experience that saves paper, ink, and money while saving trees. How CleanPrint Works CleanPrint is an eco-friendly tool that saves paper, ink and money when printing from the internet. Users can easily edit content before printing or saving to PDF, Kindle, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box. CleanPrint includes sharing tools and a pagination/paper saving counter that shows visitors how eco-friendly your site is and helps them avoid that dreaded extra sheet of paper! User activates CleanPrint by hitting print button Print preview appears including pagination and editing tools for optimization User selects desired output: PDF - Saves content as a PDF document Text - Saves content as a rich text formated file Dropbox - Saves a PDF or text file to your Dropbox account Box - Saves a PDF or text file to your Box account Google Drive - Saves a PDF or text file to your Google Drive account Kindle - Saves content directly to your Kindle Google Cloud Print - prints to a remote printer Print - Sends content to your printer Email - Sends content via email Share article link to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ Features and Benefits Use the CleanPrint button set or point your own buttons or text to CleanPrint. Lightbox keeps users on your page within their original browser window. Green ticker shows how many pages CleanPrint has saved. Pagination/paper saving counter helps users avoid that dreaded extra sheet of paper. Control - Users are in control of font size, images, gray scale of text, and eliminating any unwanted content before outputting t

"Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake. Used alongside add_shortcode, Shortcake supplies a user-friendly interface for adding a shortcode to a post, and viewing and editing it from within the content editor. Once you've installed the plugin, you'll need to register UI for your shortcodes. For inspiration, check out examples of Shortcake in the wild."

"Accessible AJAX Comments This is a plug-in derived from the Accessible AJAX comments library built for the WordPress Theme Accessibility Pattern Library (https://github.com/wpaccessibility/a11ythemepatterns/tree/master/comment-form-with-js-aria) Please make pull requests or raise issues in the WP Accessibility pattern library, unless the issues are specific to the plug-in implementation. "

Getting into the flow, let's check out the tidbits from the WordPress community last week. Here is WP Daily Themes Weekly WordPress Roundup #14.

"Rollback (or forward) any WordPress.org plugin or theme like a boss. Quickly and easily rollback any theme or plugin from WordPress.org to any previous (or newer) version without any of the manual fuss. Works just like the plugin updater, except you're rolling back (or forward) to a specific version. No need for manually downloading and FTPing the files or learning Subversion. This plugin takes care of the trouble for you."

Online surveys will be helpful for you to find out much-needed information about your visitors, customers, and readers. You catch hold of the most important information from the participants.

This week, we´re covering highlights from WordCamp Europe, WordPress 4.3 Beta 1 and more. Check out the WP Daily Themes Weekly WordPress Roundup #16

In our Weekly WordPress Roundup #21 we talk about Chris Lema strategy working remotely and his tips for working from home without living in your office.

In the past few weeks, we published more stories from the core WordPress team. We witnessed the concurrent updates on the upcoming WordPress version.

"The Wordfence WordPress security plugin provides free enterprise-class WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware. Wordfence starts by checking if your site is already infected. We do a deep server-side scan of your source code comparing it to the Official WordPress repository for core, themes and plugins. Then Wordfence secures your site and makes it up to 50 times faster"

From Roy Tanck's weblog. Moving category/tag-cloud plugin.

Yukon Blue Magazine Web2.0 Wordpress Theme Template, Very High Quality Design Theme for Wordpress Called Yukon, nice looking Business wordpress theme by iThemes. It has all the simple features you could want making your blog easy to get around making life for your reader much less confusing in finding what they are looking for. Yukon comes with extendable drop down menus, a Picture on the blogs homepage prefect for your businesses Logo, A choice of 8 different colour schemes from Blue, Gray, Green, Pink, Plum, Red, Rust, Turquoise, A Great Business Wordpress Theme for anyone, This work is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License, This means you may use it and make any changes you like, However, credit links must remain on footer for legal use, This Theme Was Tested and Work Fine On IE 6.0 & 7.0, Mozilla Firefox, Opera 9.02, Google Chrome and Safari Web Broswers, this Theme Was Tested on The Latest Wordpress Version Also.

A list of free WordPress Theme Frameworks to help you find best solution that will suit your development style and practices. The list of themes / frameworks range from completely striped down themes to ready to use frameworks which require almost no programming to create customized look.

From the Arras Theme Community Forums. A step-by-step guide along with lots and lots of help. Perfect for those of us who are lazy.