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WordPress Warriors Worldwide

4. November 2009 ·

Wouldn’t it be cool to find out how many WordPress fans, users, bloggers, developers or core developers come from your area or country? With WordPress World Map, you can do just that. WordPress World Map is a Google Maps powered map with a draggable window that lets WordPress users pin their location. To sign up, [...]

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WordPress 2.9 Batch Plugin Upgrade

30. October 2009 ·

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Last week, I blogged about the coming WordPress 2.9 features that included post thumbnails, trash status, basic image editing, comment metadata, etc. I found out yesterday from WP Engineer that there’s another feature that will be added to WordPress 2.9 which is batch plugin upgrades. The next version of WordPress will give the users the option [...]

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WordPress Plugin Compatibility Beta

28. October 2009 ·

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Most WordPress users are afraid to upgrade their WordPress install to the latest version because of plugin compatibility issues. To address that issue and in an effort to make WordPress core, plugin and theme upgrades less stressful and painful, the WordPress dev team has released a new “Compatibility” feature in the WordPress plugin directory. Developed [...]

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WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

20. October 2009 ·

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Was checking some stuff on my WP Dashboard a few minutes ago when I noticed that there was notification advising me to upgrade to WordPress 2.8.5. Here’s an excerpt from the WordPress blog regarding this recent release: As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress [...]

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WordPress 2.9 Features

19. October 2009 ·

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A few weeks back, I blogged about basic image editing as a new feature that will be included in the upcoming version of WordPress. Aside from the basic image editing feature, there are a number of new features that have been added. Dougal Campbell, who recently installed a pre-alpha version of WordPress 2.9 on his [...]

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WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts

12. October 2009 ·

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Do you like using keyboard shortcuts? I sure do! Whatever software program or application it is, keyboard shortcuts lets you perform actions quicker and let you do your work faster. When I use Adobe Photoshop, I don’t need to click on the Tool palette each time I need to switch tools because I already know [...]

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Basic Image Editing in WordPress 2.9

17. September 2009 ·

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Do you know that the next version of WordPress (version 2.9) will have basic image editing tools? I didn’t. I just found out about it yesterday from WordPress Tavern. WordPress did a survey early this year and asked users what features they’d want to see in the next version of WordPress. The results were posted [...]

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Upcoming WordCamps

8. September 2009 ·

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If you’re an avid WordPress user like me, then you should definitely attend WordCamp. Each year, WordCamps are held in different cities across the world. For those who aren’t familiar with WordCamp, here’s a short description from WordCamp Central: WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put [...]

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WordPress Blogs Under Attack

6. September 2009 ·

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Yesterday, while I was checking on my WP Dashboard, I came across Lorelle’s post that warned WordPress users about old WordPress versions being attacked. From that post, I learned that there are reports of attacks on older versions of WordPress and that the number of sites being hit was increasing by the hour. When I [...]

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WordPress 2.8.4 Security Release

11. August 2009 ·

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Another heads up for all WordPress users. The WordPress dev team just released another security update WordPress 2.8.4 to fix a vulnerability discovered yesterday. Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a [...]

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WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release

3. August 2009 ·

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Heads up for all WordPress users. Earlier today, the folks from WordPress released version 2.8.3, a security release that fixes some issues that were overlooked in version 2.8.1 and weren’t included in version 2.8.2. Here’s the word from the WordPress blog: Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, [...]