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ContentRobot is pleased to announce our newest service: BlogOnCloud9.

What is it? BlogOnCloud9 is the premier destination to host your WordPress blog.  Bloggers can get the best of both worlds and take advantage of a scalable “cloud” hosting plan coupled with expert WordPress support from ContentRobot.

BlogOnCloud9 will support bloggers every step of the way.

• We’ll help to solve any issues that arise – from perplexing WordPress problems to optimizing your hosting environment.
• We’ll give bloggers their own custom WordPress installation (you won’t find any unintelligent “one-click” installs here).
• We’ll encourage bloggers to install any plugin, theme, or widget

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The ContentRobot team really enjoyed WordCamp Boston this past Saturday. Here’s what we liked best:

1. Meeting Other Passionate WordPress Developers: The RocketGenius team, developers of the awesome Gravity Forms plugin, are a smart, fun bunch. We look forward to working with them more.
2. Shaking Hands With One of Our Favorite Clients: Nine Lives Media’s Amy Katz took part in a session called “WordPress Powers My Startup” and she rocked it. We finally got to meet her for the first time ever and it was very cool.
3. Cool Giveaways: The schwag was really nice,

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Last night Automattic released WordPress 2.9.1 and ContentRobot is recommending that it’s a perfect time to upgrade your blogs.

This version fixes some bobbles from 2.9 (scheduled posts and pingbacks were not processed correctly on some hosts) along with a handful of minor issues.

Don’t hit that button without us – we look forward to helping you update to this latest WordPress release.

Sometimes its the surprise gifts that are the best. While not exactly under our tree, we woke up to read that Automattic released WordPress 2.9 yesterday (here’s is the official announcement).

What comes in the shiny, new package?:

• Global undo/”trash” feature - bring back any posts and comments that were accidentally deleted (Matt Mullenweg said this was his favorite feature at WordCamp NY last month)
• Built-in image editor – crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images as you are writing (we’ve been waiting for this one for a while)
• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking –

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It’s a great time to upgrade your WordPress blog today. Automattic has released 2.8.6, which patches some more security holes. According to WordPress’s blog:

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.  The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for

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