Written by Hi, WordPress 2.8.6 has fixed two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog then you will have to upgrade to 2.8.6 which is recommended. The problems are as these: – An XSS vulnerability in Press – An issue with [...]
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Upcoming Bug Hunts On WordPress 2.9 Release
WordPress is near completion of the 2.9 milestone, it’s that time of dev cycle again, when ask all you community developers who’ve been putting off contributing to core to dust off dev environments and help to get closer to being release-ready. How? Bug hunts! Yes, that time-honored tradition (in the time of WordPress, anyway) of [...]
READ MORE »Upcoming WordCamps
There are six WordCamps coming up before the end of the year, and since I like to make sure people know about it when there’s a WordCamp near them, here’s the list, with some personal commentary thrown in. If you just want the list without my asides, check out the full schedule at WordCamp.org. WordCamp [...]
READ MORE »WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release
WordPress has identified a number of security hardening changes that were worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and make all your sites as secure as possible. The headline changes in this release are: * A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. * [...]
READ MORE »Buddypress 1.1.1 Release
Buddypress 1.1.1 Release The BuddyPress 1.1.1 release is now available for download. This release fixes a few remaining issues with BuddyPress 1.0 theme backwards compatibility. Upgrade instructions are in the usual spot. Please consult the release history for a complete list of changes.
READ MORE »WordPress 2.9 user features
WordPress 2.9 is about to release, and here are some key features from use end: User Features Trash status for posts, pages, comments and attachments (includes restore and permanent delete) Add support for ‘include’ and ‘exclude’ to (Gallery Shortcode) Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client Add support for sticky posts to [...]
READ MORE »WordPress 2.9: Move to Trash feature:
WordPress 2.9: Move to Trash feature: Our Gmail users must be aware of the trash feature in the web application. We move a mail into trash, and it will be deleted automatically after some time frame. You can restore it within that time frame. The same feature for posts, pages and comments is going to [...]
READ MORE »WordPress 2.9 to have built in image editor
WordPress 2.9 built in image editor WordPress 2.9 is to have a built in image editor, in your admin panel. It has been long that wordpress will have some new features for image editing. However, I am not sure how much loading time is increased, but hopefully it is not much more that was in [...]
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