Today Dan Milward of GetShopped.org released the newest WP E-Commerce plugin that is part of the Gold Cart package. The WP e-Commerce Product Slider 2010 Plugin displays your products in a new ‘fancy sliding product window’ on your website. The new Product Slider 2010 allows you to place the Product Slider on your site using either a WordPress friendly ShortCode or via a Template Tag. Either way you look at it this new version is going to add some visual appeal to your web shop.
Use our famous “Product Slider” module. Check it out on www.icondock.com if you doubt the awesomeness!
The only requirements are that you are using the latest gold files.

My friends over at Obox Design are giving away a free Posterous theme. My.List is a Posterous theme aimed mainly at bloggers who post pictures and video’s. The home page grid layout allows for a portfolio-like look which is easy to navigate while the post page is perfectly suited for articles as well as photos.

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WP e-Commerce Plugin RC4 is now ready for download. Assuming that there are no major issues then we intend to launch 3.7.6 early next week. Probably Tuesday Morning 7th April NZT.

RC4 Track Notes

1. A few nice presentation changes in wp-admin (courtesy of Dan “the Godfather” Milward)
2. More head bashing fixes to Shipping and ’same as billing’
3. Awesome new filter for gateways added by Lee Willis
4. Had to remove the last of Chris Newtons cart class patch because it was breaking flat rate shipping, it now works perfectly.

» Download WP e-Commerce Plugin 3.7.6 RC4

When your blog starts growing and gets popular, you have to take care of security risks and issues. Most of bloggers and web masters fail to recognize the importance of securing their blog. Hackers can do lots of things after breaking in, they can attack your site viewers with Trojan viruses to steal information from their computers and if it’s going to happen Google will block your site with a message on it i.e “This site may harm your computer”. But you don’t have to worry about it if you are using Wordpress, as there are lots of plugins to help you out.

In this post i have listed top 10 wordpress security plugins to secure your blog from hackers.

1. Invisible Defender

Invisible Defender is a WordPress plugin, which protects registration, login and comment forms from spambots by adding two extra fields hidden by CSS. This approach gave me 100% anti-spam protection on one of my sites.

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2. AskApache Password Protect

AskApache Password Protect adds some serious password protection to your WordPress Blog. Not only does it protect your wp-admin directory, but also your wp-includes, wp-content, plugins, etc. plugins as well.

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3. Secure WordPress

This plugins helps to secure your WordPress installation: Remove Error information on login page; adds index.html to plugin directory; removes the wp-version, except in admin area.

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4. WordPress Database Backup

WordPress database backup creates backups of your core WordPress tables as well as other tables of your choice in the same database.

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5. WP Security Scan

Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. It scans your blog and checks passwords, file permissions, database security and WP version hiding.

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6. WordPress File Monitor

Monitors your WordPress installation for added/deleted/changed files. When a change is detected an email alert can be sent to a specified address.

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7. Force SSL

For those will an SSL certificate, this plugin forces an HTTPS connection for security purposes. Force SSL simply redirects requests made via regular old http to requests for trusty new https, and that’s about it.

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8. Admin SSL

This WordPress plugin secures wordpress login and admin pages, supports all SSL setups and encrypt cookie contents.

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9. Replace WP-Version

Security your WordPress-Installation and eliminate or replace your wp-version and database-version on easy way with a small plugin.

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10. WP-dephorm

wp-dephorm protects your users from the prying eyes of phorm. This is achieved by setting a cookie to opt out of the phorm information mining. Your blog viewers will not have there information stored and used in marketing campaigns whilst viewing your site.

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