Recently there was a big security issue of older versions of wordpress sites being hacked. Well this is because of the security flaws the older versions had. Unfortunately for those who did not upgrade to the newer versions, had to be the victims of this new Trojan. The attack methodology is a hack which creates [...]
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Defensio: Outsmarting Evil Spam
December 22nd, 2008
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Akismet is one of the most popular plug-ins for WordPress bloggers to fight against spam, and until now it never has any competitors. But now there is a new technology and very much similar to Akismet called Defensio, well from the FAQ and what they have said about it in their website it looks very [...]
WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” is released
December 11th, 2008
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WordPress 2.7 has been released and its code named “Coltrane” named after someone called John Coltrane. According to them its faster and more stable than the older versions. The layout of the dashboard has major changes but as they say its easy to figure out.(and they aren’t lying.. we were already testing the RC 2 [...]
Upgrade WordPress Safely – In Case You Wanted to Rollback
September 9th, 2008
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Recently The new Update of WordPress 2.6.2 arrived and now lot of people are thinking of upgrading and some a scared to upgrade since some plugins might break the site or throw some other kind of conflicts or errors. So I thought of sharing with everyone the method I use to upgrade WordPress. You might [...]
The Most Advanced WordPress Stats Integration – Woopra
August 29th, 2008
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Today, the Woopra team announced their fully finished Woopra – WordPress stats integration plugin 1.30. I tried it out and It was absolutely awesome. The Woopra team has done it again, I wish to thank John and all the Woopra developers for an awesome job well done. Recently a lot of people including me were [...]
WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 is Out
July 2nd, 2008
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Another week, another beta. New in beta 2: Insert image and edit image fixes SSL fixes i18n fixes Lots of new inline documentation Improved tag auto-suggest TinyMCE 3.1.1 with Opera 9.5 and Safari fixes, proper align = center removal, and improved embeds support jQuery UI 1.5.1 See the full list of changes since beta 2. [...]
