Matt Mullenweg may have wanted WordCamps organized all over the world, but Aaron and I would settle for the one actually being organized. A little more than a month away, and there’s R.S.V.P. list or agenda. As much as we appreciate Automattic organizing the conference, we’re voicing the concerns of a lot of people when [...]
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WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the [...]
Ok besides being the founder of Wordpress and an all around nice guy Matt also tends to be a pretty good writer, when he isn’t doing one of his brief “asides.” And for that reason I actually bother to read every one of his posts. I’m not sure if its because I’m geeky, [...]
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Well last night I ended up puttering around on the site, and made a few changes.
WP Ajax Edit Comments
WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1 ) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all [...]
WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep [...]
Hackers are targeting websites and blogs by exploiting the trackback feature to launch spam attacks, experts have warned.A Filipino online news agency, Newsbreak, was hit with 27,000 pornographic links from its website. The newswire has now suspended the trackback feature of its site, according to reports.
Trackback technology allows blog writers to check who has [...]
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Photo Matt has spoken WordCamp 2007 will be on 7/21 and 7/22 in San Francisco. So can you guess what I’ll be doing the 3rd week of July? I went last year and both learned a lot and met a number of interesting people. So I’d suggest you throw it on your calendar.
A hacker managed to sneak into the Wordpress server and modify the code in the 2.1.1 release, introducing an exploit that would allow for remote PHP execution. Although the 2.1.1 package does not seem to have been compromised when it was initially released, WP encourages all users to upgrade to 2.1.2 to patch the security [...]
Well it sure didn’t take long, but already the Automattic crew has come up with an update, and for the first time (for me) it’s patches to two versions at once.
(They’ve) got a new bugfix and security release for both of our actively maintained branches of WordPress. Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly [...]
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Lorelle on WordPress noted that the celebrations had begun and pointed to [...] the first post and comment by Matt Mullenweg that led to WordPress in the very beginning of this famous blogging story.
Now I feel young. Wordpress has been around “maturing” for 4 years now, and I only started last year. Mind it’s now [...]
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