Yet another upgrade has been announced to WordPress. Version 2.8.3 was released early last week, and today 2.8.4 has been announced. Look at the timeline. 09-Jul 2.8.1 20-Jul 2.8.2 03-Aug 2.8.3 12-Aug 2.8.4 Once again, it is termed a security release. According to Matt, if you are still using 2.8.3 a specially crafted URL could [...]
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I think the pace at which WordPress.org releases WordPress upgrades is a little bit too fast. It is kinda good, because this tells us the people at WordPress are working on it all the time, but it does add some admin work for us bloggers. Even though upgrades are now a breeze thanks to the [...]
WordPress 2.8.2 has been released just 11 days after WordPress 2.8.1. Today’s entry on the official WordPress blog warns us of an “XSS vulnerability” that could cause comment author URLs to be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.
I just added a contact form to my blog, now proudly running on WordPress 2.8.1. Since WP 2.7, it has become a breeze to add and delete plugins. It no longer involves searching for the plug-in outside your dashboard, downloading, unzipping the plug-in package, uploading it to the server and then activating it. Now you [...]
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Reverse Order WordPress Comments
Sometimes you may want the order of comments on your WordPress blog to be reversed, i.e., want the newest comments to appear on top. While simple plug-ins have been available to accomplish this (I liked Sudar’s the best), now there is a much simpler solution. Now WordPress dashboard itself allows you to reverse the order [...]
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