Just in time for August, another security release for the WordPress 2.8.x code line is now available to the public. According to Ryan, there were some security vulnerabilities that were uncaught by the previous release (2.8.2), that were noticed and fixed for this latest version. Like the previous version of WordPress, this one is recommended [...]
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WordPress 2.8.3 Now Available
August 3, 2009 at 10:03 PM · 2 comments
The Akismet folks mentioned yesterday via a post on their blog about CAPTCHA conversion rates, as discussed at the SEOmoz blog. While the very informal study done by the author of the SEOmoz blog post had a very small sampling (some statisticians may even say, “Whoa! Statistically insignificant!”), and the sampling methods were arguably questionable, [...]
WordPress 2.8.2 Fixes a Security Vulnerability
July 20, 2009 at 9:00 AM · 3 comments
As many of you who happen to blog via WordPress are waking up to this, you may have noticed that WordPress 2.8.2 is now available for download/updating. Yep, that’s right: version 2.8.2. For those of you who have just completed your due diligence and your blog upgrades, this may be one of those “Gotcha!” moments [...]
Well, as I was mulling over the WordPress 2.8.1 code progressing its way through DevPal’s CM automata (yes, Javamancy really IS part of DevPal), I noticed that there was an entry from the WordPress guys (more specifically, Ryan) on their WordPress 2.8.1 release drop, which was officially back on July 9, 2009. For even more [...]
Tagged as: configuration management, Javamancy, WordPress
WordPress 2.8.1 Now Available
July 13, 2009 at 9:20 PM · 1 comment
A few days ago, WordPress 2.8.1 was released to the public with surprisingly little fanfare. In fact, for many bloggers, it seemed as if the auto-update message in their WordPress admin consoles did not trigger for a few days after the release. Regardless, this release has a lot of security-related bug fixes, and it is [...]
Yesterday, bbPress 1.0 was announced to be officially released and available for downloading. For those of you not familiar with the software, it is PHP-based forum software that owes its existence to WordPress. In fact, it is often deployed alongside WordPress instances in order to provide forum capabilities to the weblog. Or is it vice [...]
More Definitive Statement:WordPress Themes are GPL’ed
July 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM · 2 comments
This issue of whether themes and other code modifications to the WordPress software should comply with the GNU General Public License now has a more firm statement set to the dispute: A reply to Matt’s request to the SFLC has come back, and it plainly states that, yes, the code aspects of themes fall within [...]
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A lot of developers and interested parties in the FOSS community have raged back and forth over the propriety and legalities about charging money for the supposedly open source software itself, and/or distribution of said software, and/or services and/or maintenance and/or bug-fixing for the software. Mark had gotten tipped off about an upcoming book that [...]
Tagged as: free, open source, shareware, WordPress
Earlier, WordPress 2.8 was released to the public, and it was announced by Matt over at its development blog. Although this is considered a major release, with plenty of new features, a lot of these new items are associated with the admin console and improving the blog customization and management. Of course, in addition to [...]
Practical Use of WPMU and BuddyPress: GigaOM Pro
May 29, 2009 at 1:20 AM
Ever wondered who would be “crazy” enough to try to launch a commercial site using WordPress MU and BuddyPress? Well, wonder no longer: there’s at least one site out there now, and it’s the GigaOM Pro site. Mark (that Jaquith guy) mentions that he helped on the GigaOM Pro site, and he discusses some of [...]
Tagged as: BuddyPress, GigaOM, WordPress, WordPress MU
