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WordPress Hack Cloakes Itself to All But Search Engines
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 5 2010 at 1:36 pm | 1 Comment »
A new WordPress hack is making its way around the net, and it has some new tricks up its sleeve. Read our coverage to learn what’s going on, whether or not your WordPress blog could be affected, and what’s being done to solve the problem.
Automattic Hires Theme Developer Ian Stewart, Forms “Theme Team”
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 5 2010 at 9:44 am | No Comments »
Yesterday, highly respected WordPress theme developer Ian Stewart announced on his personal blog that he has been hired by Automattic as a Theme Wrangler. What is interesting is the fact that his blog, ThemeShaper, is also joining the company, as a front-end to what he calls a “theme team” being formed there.
WordPress.com Pushes PuSH PubSubHubbub
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 3 2010 at 11:42 am | No Comments »
WordPress and WordPress.com announced PubSubHubbub, a Plugin and new feature for WordPress.com blogs which improves the speed and performance of feed subscription services through a decentralized “hub.”
Donate to Your Favorite WordPress Project: Support a WordPress Developer Day
By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 1 2010 at 8:44 am | 1 Comment »
One of the primary reasons the open source WordPress content management system is so powerful is its’ extensibility. If you’ve been thinking about donating to a WordPress development project like a plugin or a theme, or even if you haven’t, today is definitely a great time to do so. Scott Ellis has designated March 1st as “Support a WordPress Developer Day!”
WordPress.com Goes Down, Blogs Experience Outages
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 18 2010 at 3:17 pm | 1 Comment »
An unexpected change with one of WordPress.com’s data centers ended up crashing the service for nearly two hours this afternoon. Over 10 million blogs were effected, including prominent “VIP” sites, and approximately 5.5 million pageviews were reportedly lost.
WordPress 2.9.2 Released: Minor Security Fix
By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 16 2010 at 1:59 pm | No Comments »
Users of the WordPress blogging and content management platform can now update their installations to version 2.9.2, released Monday. This version fixes one small bug, which would allow logged in users to view other users posts that have been put into the “Trash”. It is not an essential fix, though updating is recommended.
Reasons Why Some WordPress Plugins are Removed from the Official Directory
By WordCast Team, posted Feb 12 2010 at 11:54 am | 1 Comment »
In “How to Get Your Plugin Removed from the Directory” by Mark Jaquith, he offers a tongue-in-cheek explanation of what it may take to get your WordPress Plugin removed from the WordPress Plugin Directory.
For the most part, the list makes sense. Don’t do anything illegal, incompatible with the WordPress GPL license, no spam or hidden [...]
The Process of Designing the New WPVote
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jan 22 2010 at 11:20 am | 1 Comment »
As Ben Gillbanks develops the new WPVote Digg-clone site, he shares an ongoing series on the step-by-step process on his Binary Moon blog. It’s an interesting look inside the technical process of developing a WordPress site specifically for monetization that pushes WordPress beyond the blog look and feel.
How Many WordPress Plugins Do You Use? Really.
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jan 20 2010 at 7:33 pm | 2 Comments »
How many WordPress Plugins do you use? Really? “Digging Into WordPress” took a poll and have just released the results. As dependent as many of us are on our favorite WordPress Plugins, the answer might surprise you. We also share some other WordPress stats and news on WordPress Plugins for the Plugin fans!
WordPress 3.0 Development on Track
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Jan 20 2010 at 7:01 pm | 1 Comment »
WordPress 3.0 development is on track and bringing a lot of improvements and new features to WordPress including a new Menus Widget, custom post types, the new default WordPress Theme, and the much anticipated WordPress and WordPressMU merger.