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WordPress 2.6 Released

7/15/2008 – 8:13 am

The release of WordPress 2.6 is now official. In addition to the features I highlighted previously, Ryan has details on his blog about the improved support for SSL, and some new helper functions which will be useful for plugin and theme authors. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, News, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Blogging, Software, versions, WordPress | Comments (31)

WordPress 2.6 Beta 1

6/24/2008 – 12:20 pm

Last night Ryan Boren announced the release of WordPress 2.6 Beta 1. At first glance, you probably wouldn’t notice much difference between versions 2.5 and 2.6. The two biggest new features are Post Revisions, which saves a history of edits made to each post, and support for Gears, which greatly speeds up working with the admin screens.

Other changes of note:

Support for the XML-RPC and Atom client APIs is turned off by default now. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Community, WordPress | Also tagged app, Atom, Beta, easy-gravatars, gravatars, jquery, jqueryui, Plugins, Themes, tinymce, WordPress, xml-rpc, xmlrpc | Comments (60)

Download Firefox 3

6/17/2008 – 10:50 am

If you didn’t know already, today is Download Firefox 3 Day. They’re trying to set a World Record for the most downloads in a single day. I read somewhere that the fun begins around 10:00 a.m. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Browsers, Community | Also tagged Browsers, download, Firefox, firefox3, Mozilla, worldrecord | Comments (2)

Easy Gravatars version 1.1

11/16/2007 – 11:26 am

My Easy Gravatars plugin is now in the WordPress Plugin Directory, and I’ve released version 1.1.

Changes:

Gravatar images now link to comment author’s URL, if provided.
Gravatar code now prepended to text instead of appended.
Added stylesheet for options page and improved layout. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged app, avatar, avatars, easy-gravatars, gravatar, gravatars, plugin, Plugins, update, WordPress | Comments (46)

WordPress 2.3 Beta 1

8/29/2007 – 11:17 am

As announced on the dev blog, WordPress 2.3 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. Some of the features of 2.3 include automatic notification for plugin and core code version updates, built-in tags support, faster javascript, and SEO-friendly URL redirection.

The new tag system includes an importer for those using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, and importers for a couple of other popular plugins are in the works. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Beta, Java, JavaScript, plugin, Plugins, SEO, Tags, taxonomy, WordPress | Comments (4)

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 | Posted in Security, Software, WordPress | Also tagged WordPress | Comments (14)

WordPress 2.2.1 Released

6/21/2007 – 10:25 am

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 | Posted in Security, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Perl, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | Comments (19)

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 | Posted in Software, WordPress | Also tagged Atom, Feeds, jquery, plugin, Plugins, 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. [...]