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WordPress 2.8.5 Released!

By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 20 2009 at 10:30 pm | No Comments »

WordPress announced today the release of version 2.8.5 – a security update with fixes originally intended to come out in 2.9 but thrown into the 2.8 branch just to make sure that things stay as secure as possible.

Deactivate All WordPress Plugins Via the Database

By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 20 2009 at 2:05 am | 1 Comment »

As discussed on WordCast 73 with Cali Lewis on BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2009, sometimes a plugin doesn’t work as it should and ends up crashing your blog.
If you’ve gone through all the steps talked about on that episode (deactivate the plugin, rename/delete it via FTP), it’s come down to the database and the force deactivation [...]

WordCast 73: Blog World and New Media Expo 2009

By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 20 2009 at 2:00 am | No Comments »

Cali Lewis on Blog World and New Media Expo 2009, when a plugin breaks your WordPress, filtering spam themes, and more.

Don't Post As "admin", Secure Your WordPress Admin Panel

By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 20 2009 at 1:46 am | 1 Comment »

If you’re posting as “admin”, your blog is not safe! We show how how to change your admin username and post from an account that’ll keep your site secure.

Post Images and Thumbnails Supported in WordPress 2.9

By Dave Moyer, posted Oct 14 2009 at 9:56 am | No Comments »

WPEngineer is reporting this morning that WordPress 2.9 adds native support for post thumbnails, a staple of “magazine” and “newspaper” style themes for years.
Up until this point, you needed to use custom fields in WordPress to set an image URL, then specially code PHP to pull from that custom field in a theme file in [...]