Yet another WordPress Update, and this time as usual a security fix and you’re off upgrading your blog to ensure you are not hacked.
You could update your installation via a few shell commands. However, if you don’t have shell access then you’ll need to upgrade the usual way.
The Dev Blog post has been nice enough [...]
If you’re looking to secure your WordPress wp-admin folder, then adding an additional layer of password protection goes a long way in helping this.
You can either manually code the .htaccess file or get hold of the AskApache Password Protect Plugin to automate the process.
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It is a lot pain installing any theme or plugin in your WordPress, logging in your FTp, uploading the file etc takes a lot of time and your net usage. But now a solution is here. Anirudh Sanjeev from Thoughts Outflux is here with an amazing plugin called OneClick.
OneClick makes it a lot easy to [...]
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WLTC is hosting the second WordPress Plugin Competition
Rules and Details
All code must be GPL
Running time for competition = 2 months starting the 1st of June till the 31st of July.
True Wordpress plugins only. No manual modifications can be required of users.
You cannot submit plugins that have been released already.
All plugins require documentation as in the [...]
One week after WordPress 2.2 RC1 was released, we have 2.2 Getz available for download.
Getz comes with a few good feature additions. Code has been optimized for speed. We now have full Atom support and you have a new Blogger importer. WordPress Widgets has been included into the core. I’m not sure if this is [...]
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The 2.2 release which was scheduled for April 23 was pushed back and there is still no exact date for it.
However, work for the same has been going on furiously and even 2.3 is in the pipeline.
Ryan has mentioned that the 2.2 RC1 is available for download and testing.
However, all support is exclusively via the [...]
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All this month of April, the folks at Weblog Tools Collection will be taking up a single plugin every day and reviewing it in detail.
The purpose is to highlight some of the outstanding (for various reasons) plugins available today as well as provide a means for the WordPress community to tell the authors what they [...]
The WordPress team has released WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10. This is yet another release in a short file in an attempt to fix minor XSS bugs and a major XML-RPC issue. In short it is a needed upgrade. If you’re irritated about the frequent upgrades, save time by following my tutorial to upgrade via shell.
I always wondered how Mark had those small yellow posts over at Weblog Tools Collection. It was only after a while that I realized that they are what are called Asides.
Asides as the name goes is something aside your normal content. I use the asides to link to to posts on which I don’t want [...]
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The WordPress Blog announced the release of the official Plugin Directory.
Currently the primary place I use to look for plugins is WP-Plugins.net. It is updated several times a day as plugin authors use it as the first place to announce their plugins. They also have a feed which you can subscribe to.
The new plugins directory [...]
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