It is more than just securing the data. When you collect details like that you need everything secured. SSL to ensure the data between the form and your server or the third party server is secured. The server itself needs to be secured. Do you want to trust the third party public system to secure your data? Any system that could ever access the data needs to have extremely high security. A single virus or trojan can cost you big.
I mean really big. When you collect this data you are responsible for it. If it gets out (and it will unless you are crazy good, this stuff gets taken from secure servers on a scarily regular basis and it is most often collected because some computer with access got hacked not the secure server) then you are liable for damages. Lawsuits on this kind of stuff have cost millions lately.
Personally I refuse to do any project that looks to collect this kind of data. When I do Credit Card Processing I try to convert that to a purchase ID with the gateway without recording the credit card number ever. I don’t want anything to do with keeping data like this. There are third party agencies that can process the data and send me the info I need so I don’t ever have to touch the personal information.
Um, I don’t know of any system that does that. I would never fill that in with a WordPress based form. If you want to collect that kind of info you need a ton of security, split your information into two secured and encrypted databases so if one does get lifted the info is useless.
Seriously not something you want to get into without a lot more experience in securing data. You will get hacked and you will get sued. Look at the Playstation Network and other big systems out there that have been hacked, and they weren’t even collecting SSN+CC. Do that and every identify theme will be all over you.
We close the tickets internally, but if you reply to the email you will automatically open that ticket again, so if an issue isn’t resolved simply reply to the last email you received. Don’t worry about “open” or “closed” as that is purely internal now.
To add to what Susan said, each community theme developer has support for the theme. So check with the developer or use the get help link at my.studiopress.com to request help and we can get you to the right place.
For customization, post here and tag your thread with the theme you are requesting help for, this will make it easier for others searching for things related to those themes.
November 19, 2012 at 11:09 am
in reply to: Hello all#698
News has recently been updated to 2.1 which is responsive. We do not have any specific release dates and cannot guarantee every theme will be updated to 2.0. I do know they are working on the next version of AgentPress but this might be while.
Multisite is just that, multiple sites. Each site uses the same install and can share plugins, themes … but content is seperated. There are some plugins that allow for some level of content sharing, but this is breaking the intended functionality.
Think of how it works at WordPress.com. Many different sites being run on the one version of WordPress. Each admin can independently control their site within the controls allowed to them. That is the purpose behind multisite.
This is not intended behavior. We had fixed this before launch and it somehow snuck back in again. We’ll be addressing it again shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience.
