Anyone with WordPress themes?

[Uncle Fred]

I am working on standing up a site and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the themes on the WordPress/Elegant Themes?

Easy question for someone with experience but I cannot seem to find an answer in the FAQ.

[Milo Minderbinder]

I've no experience of using them, however Wordpress sites seem to be a common target of hijackers: there appears to be a number of unfixed vulnerabilities with them

[BOAC]

Indeed, Milo - No 1 son runs a hosting company and repeated infections are occurring on those clients who use WP for their sites. The latest followed a complete re-install of the latest WP package and only with difficulty did he find the hack lay in the SQL tables - lesson learned!

WP is indeed a clever and reasonably simple system for site creation, but as you say is rapidly becoming the target for hackers due to its widespread coverage. A typical infection can sometimes leave the website 'untouched' but generate sufficient spam mails to cause the mail server to be blacklisted.

I 'played' with it a while back and ceased 'playing', but left the folder on my server, and because I ignored it from then on, did not patch it. Sure enough, along came the dreaded 'arabic' hack.

[probes]

I took a look and found it's too much energy required to figure out and confusing to use.