Just noticed that the latest WordPress.org update has been out since Thursday. This time round the update does the following: Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change. Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running [...]
Archive of posts tagged security
Why You Should Upgrade
If you read this blog regularly (or even semi-regularly) you will know that I recommend upgrading WordPress whenever the dashboard tells you to. Quite apart from grabbing the latest features built into the latest releases, you also pick up any patches and security updates. If internet history tells us nothing else, it tells us that [...]
WordPress 2.6.3
When I dipped in to upgrade some plugins this evening, my dashboard kindly told me that I needed to upgrade from WordPress 2.6.2 to WordPress 2.6.3. Get the latest version here. In short, it seems that the library used to fetch the dashboards feeds, named Snoopy, has a vulnerability and this upgrade fixes that. So, [...]
Open ID
Being tech-savvy, smart and (statistically speaking) a good looking reader of this site, you will have no doubt heard of Open ID. Open ID was created to allow you to have just one ID which can beused on multiple websites meaning that you don’t need to remember lots of different user names and passwords. In [...]
Methods of Spam Prevention on Forums
I am a member of a few forums. All of these forums are well moderated and are free of the outside influences such as spam, warez and cracking. But why? It could be argued that simply by joining a forum, the members (or community) would feel bound by the rules and spirit of that online [...]
Upgrading WordPress Made Easier?
I have been watching the debate over at WordPress Wank over the whole “is WP a bulky bloated blog tool or a fairly medium CMS tool?” question. Well, it sort of began as “whoopee a WP project is included in Google’s Summer of Code” but where nerds and geek abound….. Anyway, that is pretty much [...]
