ContentRobot

WordPress has had a heck of a time trying to stay ahead of evil hackers following the summer of exploits.

Unfortunately, several of our clients had been among those affected, but everyone got back up and running with an upgrade and some deep cleaning.

While version 2.8.4 has been a nice stable offering,  WordPress announced that 2.8.5 or “The  Hardening Release” is now available for download.

According to WP:

The headline changes in this release are:

• A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
• Removal of areas within the code where

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This proved to be a great week for WordPress fans:

1. Sneak Peek of the Visual Design WordPress 2.7: We think it’s a great visual upgrade and can’t wait to see if it lives up to it’s promise! Will the WP community gets frustrated with all the interface updates they have endured in recent upgrades?
2. Automattic Acquires PollDaddy: Polling gets native for WP.COMers and a plugin is available for the rest of us. Matt Mullenweg said polling is big and we agree it’s a great way to easily add interactivity.

They say news comes in “threes” – so what’s next?

ContentRobot had the pleasure of meeting Lorelle VanFossen at BlogWorld Expo last month. She chatted with us about her involvement in WordPress and Woopra – it was really great to meet her.  Then, she whipped out her video camera and asked us “how has WordPress changed your lives?

She showed the resulting video at WordCamp Portland and a very-tired ContentRobot made the cut! Here’s the YouTube version … or click over to her site to watch the Viddler version and read more about the project. Watch the whole thing or skip ahead to the 7:40ish mark… Continue Reading