If you have been following along about the upcoming PHP and MySQL upgrade requirements for WordPress, you may have wondered, “Hey, is my WordPress site ready for the upgrade?” There is a way to tell (more-or-less conveniently): try the Health Check plugin for WordPress. While the description for the plugin declares that there will be [...]
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As many of you know, WordPress depends upon a variety of software packages to do the things that it does, as a weblog product (and some of you have extended it even further…). Two of these things are foundational items: PHP, the language and operational runtime for WordPress, and MySQL, the persistence datastore that WordPress [...]
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PHP,
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words would a video (and even one that is available in HD format, too) be worth? Resolve this quandary for yourself, and watch this video on the new features in WordPress 3.0, which is now available.
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So you love using or publishing on WordPress, and you also enjoy using Firefox. So why not add some WordPress-themed bling to Firefox?
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A scant couple of days ago, Subversion (the project) formally graduated from its incubation phase, becoming a full-fledged Apache project at subversion.apache.org. It seemed like almost yesterday that it had been accepted as a candidate by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)… In fact, it was in late 2009 that the proposal to join the ASF [...]
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RCS,
SCCS,
StarTeam,
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Yesterday, WordPress 2.9.2 was released to correct a bug in which “trashed” blog posts are visible by potentially unauthorized users. According to Ryan, this can occur when logged-in users attempt to browse the trash area; these users can view posts that belong to others, so sensitive or private information may be inappropriately accessible. Thomas Mackenzie [...]
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WordPress 2.9.1 was released yesterday, after a relatively short beta and RC1 pair of cycles. Some of you may recall the controversy surrounding WordPress 2.9, surrounding some defects that were discovered shortly after its release– although some people have mentioned that the problems, they felt, were present even in the previous versions of the software. [...]
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Apparently, several people have had issues with WordPress 2.9 since its FCS release just a few days ago. In fact, this has caught on such attention that there has been mention by Jeff (at Weblog Tools Collection), Keith (also at Weblog Tools Collection), and at the WordPress development blog about a beta version of WordPress [...]
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