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WordPress 2.2.2 Released

8/5/2007 – 11:03 pm

There is a new security & bugfix release: WordPress 2.2.2. There are no new features in this version. Since it is a security release, all users should upgrade as soon as possible. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Security, Software, WordPress | Tagged Releases, WordPress | Comments (14)

WordPress 2.2.1 is now available. Most of the changes are minor bug fixes, however there are some security fixes as well. We can’t stress enough how important it is to upgrade your sites and keep them current so that you aren’t open to attacks. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Security, Software, WordPress | Tagged Perl, plugin, Plugins, Releases, WordPress | Comments (19)

Perl geekery: building hashes

6/21/2007 – 6:31 am

Say we’re writing a program in Perl, and we need to pass a lot of data back and forth between subroutines. Using global variables is bad practice, and we often use the slightly-less-bad method of passing around a big hash variable. But it’s a pain to always use the values in the hash, so a lot of our code uses individual scalar variables, and stick them into (and pull them out of) the hash as needed. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Development | Tagged Perl, Programming | Comments (4)

WP-Cache fix for Content-Type in feeds

6/19/2007 – 12:56 pm

If you run a busy WordPress site, or even if your site just has a lot of processor-intensive plugins, then you probably already run the WP-Cache plugin (plugin directory, original announcment, recent security update info). [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Plugins, Software, Standards, Syndication, WordPress | Tagged Atom, Feeds, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Syndication, WordPress | Comments (12)

WordPress 2.2 Released

5/15/2007 – 9:52 pm

WordPress 2.2 “Getz” is now official. I’ve listed some of the changes previously, but here’s another quick rundown:

Atom feeds updated to Atom 1.0
Preliminary support for Atom Publishing Protocol
Widgets are now supported in core
Protection against activating broken plugins
“Deactivate All Plugins” button. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Software, WordPress | Tagged Atom, Feeds, jquery, plugin, Plugins, Releases, WordPress, xml-rpc | Comments (51)

WordPress 2.2 Release Candidate 2 Now Available

5/14/2007 – 10:31 am

There have been some more bugfixes applied, and there is now a second RC available. Details are in Ryan Boren’s announcement.

WordPress 2.2 RC2 — You’re soaking in it! (In other words, I’m running it here )

By the way, one other change in this version that I don’t think has been mentioned in the previous announcements: In the “Write Post” screen, the post preview is no longer displayed directly in the page. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Software, WordPress | Tagged Beta, Releases, WordPress | Comments (7)

WordPress 2.2 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

5/9/2007 – 10:41 am

Last night, rob1n tagged WordPress 2.2 RC1 in the svn repository, and Ryan Boren posted an announcement on his blog. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Software, WordPress | Tagged Beta, Releases, WordPress | Comments (15)

New WordPress Releases: 2.0.10 and 2.1.3

4/3/2007 – 11:44 pm

That’s right, two shiny new bugfix/security updates. One for the 2.0 branch and one for the 2.1 branch. There are some small bugfixes in both of these versions, but the main reason to upgrade is for the security fixes (I’m going to write more on that subject later).

Visit the downloads page for version 2.1.3, and the Release Archive for version 2.0.10.

Watch later this month for the release of WordPress 2.2. [...]

By Dougal | Also posted in Security, Software, WordPress | Tagged Atom, Feeds, Releases, WordPress, xml-rpc | Comments (9)

My Favorite WordPress Plugins

3/13/2007 – 11:55 am

One of the coolest things about WordPress is the powerful Plugin API which allows us to create add-ons which can radically extend the basic functions of our sites. [...]