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WARNING: Zero Day Vulnerability Found on Timthumb.php

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

A zero day vulnerability has been recently found on TimThumb, a popular image resizing utility widely used in a lot of WordPress themes. This issue was first discovered and reported by Mark Maunder after his blog got hacked via the timthumb.php file/script. The TimThumb zero day vulnerability allows malicious users, hackers and other third parties [...]

WordPress for Windows Phone 7 Version 1.2 Now Available

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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For those of you who own a Windows Phone 7 device, you might want to know that the WordPress for Windows Phone 7 app version 1.2 is now available and can be downloaded via the Windows Phone Marketplace. New features on WordPress for Windows Phone 7 version 1.2: Landscape Editing – the post editor is [...]

Fluency Admin 3.2

Friday, July 29, 2011

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After several weeks of waiting, I finally upgraded this blog to WordPress 3.2.1 yesterday. The upgrade process went smooth and I didn’t encounter any issues or problems with the core software or with any of the third-party plugins. So far I’m loving WordPress 3.2+ and I can see and feel that it is lighter and [...]

WordPress 3.2.1 Maintenance Release

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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The WordPress dev team yesterday released WordPress 3.2.1 – a maintenance release designed to fix a server incompatibility issue related to JSON* as well as other fixes for the new dashboard design and the Twenty Eleven theme. This comes a week after the much awaited WordPress 3.2 was released. Changelog: Twenty Eleven: Prefix theme_options_render_page(). props [...]

50 Million Websites & Blogs Powered by WordPress

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Last Sunday July 11, WordPress reached another milestone – the total number of WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs have passed the 50 million mark with fifty percent. Of that number, fifty percent or half of it are self-hosted blogs. Based on statistics, WordPress now powers 14 percent of websites in the world wide web. WordPress.com [...]

WordPress 3.2 Is Now Available, Did You Upgrade?

Thursday, July 7, 2011

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WordPress 3.2 Is Now Available, Did You Upgrade?

So the much awaited latest version of WordPress – 3.2 was released last July 4th (Independence Day here in the US), only four months after version 3.1 was released. WordPress 3.2 Gershwin which is named after popular composer and pianist George Gershwin, is the fifteenth major release of the software and is now available as [...]

WordPress 3.1.4 and 3.2 Release Candidate 3 Now Available

Thursday, June 30, 2011

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WordPress 3.1.4 and 3.2 Release Candidate 3 Now Available

Heads up to all WordPress users! The WordPress dev team has recently released WordPress 3.1.4 which is a maintenance and security update for previous versions of the software. If you have multiple authors/users with Editor-level access on your WordPress blog or website, then you need to upgrade ASAP! WordPress 3.1.4 fixes an issue that could [...]

WordPress.org Resets Passwords

Thursday, June 23, 2011

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Last Tuesday, the WordPress team discovered some suspicious activity involving several popular WordPress plugins – AddThis, WPtouch and W3 Total Cache. Backdoors or malicious code were added to the plugins and the changes were done not by the author but someone who has gained access to the plugin author’s WordPress.org account. As soon as these [...]

WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 1

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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The WordPress dev team released the first Release Candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.2 a couple days ago. Release Candidates are versions of the software that are released after the beta phase and before the final release. Some important stuff to tak note for those who are using/testing WordPress 3.2 RC1: WordPress plugin and theme authors [...]

WordPress for iOS 2.8.1 Now Available

Friday, June 10, 2011

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Heads up for those of you who use the WordPress for iOS app, a new version was released yesterday – WordPress for iOS 2.8.1. I found out about it when I was updating my iPhone apps and I was surprised to see the update because there was no announcement posted on the WordPress for iOS [...]

Google +1 Button WordPress Plugin

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Google officially released the +1 Button last week and you’ve probably already seen it on some of your favorite websites or blogs. Google has also released the code and provided the resource for webmasters to create a customized version of the +1 button. However, customizing and adding the +1 code takes some time and can [...]