Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow [...] Read more »
Has it really been seven years since the first release of WordPress? It seems like just yesterday we were fresh to the world, a new entrant to a market everyone said was already saturated. (As a side note, if the common perception is that a market is finished and that everything interesting has been [...] Read more »
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Tagged 10 Million, 60 Million, Blog, Committers, Cusp, Downloads, Good Time, Good Word, Greater Than The Sum, Hearts And Souls, Last Birthday, Lucky Seven, Next Level, Open Source, Perception, Release Candidate, Seven Years, Web Platform, Wordpress
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Summary: A web host had a crappy server configuration that allowed people on the same box to read each others’ configuration files, and some members of the “security” press has tried to turn this into a “WordPress vulnerability” story.
WordPress, like all other web applications, must store database connection info in clear text. Encrypting credentials doesn’t [...] Read more »
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Tagged Configuration Files, Crappy Server, Credentials, Database Connection, File Permissions, File Server, Hosting Provider, Inaccuracies, Malicious User, Network Solutions, Server Configuration, Suexec, Vulnerability, Web Applications, Web Host, Web Server, Word Press
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December 18, 2009 – 7:46 PM
I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae (whom we’ve added to our Last.fm WP release station). You can upgrade [...] Read more »
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Tagged Automatic Database, Blip Tv, Carmen Mcrae, Compatibility Data, Daily Motion, Dashboard, Database Optimization, Embed Code, First Wave, Google, Hassle, Image Editor, Jazz Vocalist, New Stuff, Oh Wait, Plugins Directory, Point Of View, Polldaddy, Qik, Sampling
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December 16, 2009 – 1:33 PM
We’re at that exciting point in WordPress development where the dev team feels like version 2.9 is complete and ready for the world.
If you’ve been waiting for your moment to pitch in, it’s now. First we need tech savvy testers to upgrade their blogs and kick the tires, make sure everything is rolling like you [...] Read more »
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Tagged Beta, Blogs, Compatibility Checker, Compatibility Feature, Dev Team, New Stuff, Plan 9, Plugin Directory, Ready For The World, Release Candidate 1, Tires
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