As you may have seen through some of the weekly development meeting notes floating around the web that WordPress 2.9 is near completion. With yesterday’s announcement of not just one bug hunt, but two, it’s safe to say the release date will happen shortly after the hunts are complete. From the schedule, we’re looking somewhere …
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One of the WordPress core developers Matt Martz was nice enough to give us a few minutes of his time to interview him. Martz has been using WordPress for three years, and two of those years, he has been contributing core code. His passion for WordPress is evident through his responses to some …
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There are a lot of Twitter plugins and widgets out there for WordPress. So which one is the best? I’ve tested a lot of the various plugins available, but I have yet to find a plugin that has the functionality of Twitter Tools by Alex King. This plugin does an great job …
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Have you been looking for the best XML Sitemap plugin for WordPress? I have been using the plugin by Arne Brachhold called Google XML Sitemaps for quite some time and been extremely happy with both its flexibility and active development. He has done a great job with the plugin.
This plugin does a great job because …
Version 2.0 of the WordPress iPhone application [iTunes link] is available.
Here are a few things that are new with version 2.0.
A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.
Various user interface refinements and bug fixes
New comments interface, with Gravatars and the author URL shown in the comment …
Recently, the self-hosted WordPress website, wordpress.org, added a new function to the plugin section of the site.
Already, plugin authors can use the option of “this plugin is compatible up to X version of WordPress,” so why would Automattic want to crowd-source plugin compatibility? I believe they added this bit because so often, a plugin …
Read More...This week’s meetup wasn’t too heavy, some fairly light items as the developers are preparing to release WordPress 2.9 soon. WordPress 2.8.5 was recently released as a security update, termed as a “hardening release,” so make sure you are up to date.
There were two highlight points of discussion for this week’s meetup.
WordPress Mailing List …
Read More...There is an upcoming security update to WordPress which should be released today.
A vulnurability was found in the WordPress trackback code that could allow attacks to DDoS your site. Should you be scared? No. So why am I not scared about this bug? If someone wanted to DDoS my site, they …
This week’s dev notes are fairly brief.
The primary point I think is worth mentioning is that PHP4 is still being supported. Around 14:22 (PST) of the meeting, it was confirmed that PHP4 is still slightly under 13% usage world wide for WordPress sites. PHP4 will stop being supported when usage gets below 10%.
There …
Great news coming from the BuddyPress blog, Andy Peatling has announced the BuddyPress 1.1 release.
Here are a few highlights of new features and changes.
One click internal bbPress forum integration allowing you to set up group forums in less than a minute.
A global forum directory (example) allowing you to easily browse public facing forum posts regardless …
