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Waking up to WordPress 2.9
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
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Have You Upgraded to the Latest WP Yet? 2.8.6 is Here!
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 …
ContentRobot Invades WordCamp NYC and the Genius Bar Tomorrow
It’s another WordCamp event for the ContentRobot team … we’re headed to NYC tomorrow and can’t wait!
Like at WordCamp Las Vegas, we will be helping at the Genius Bar on Saturday from 12pm-1pm. Grab your lunch and try to stump us with your most perplexing WordPress questions!
Whether you are a newbie (we have a book for that by the way) or a veteran blogger, we can’t wait to meet you. We are looking forward to mingling with themers, …
Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.5 and Patch Those Security Holes
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
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Twitter + WordPress = tweetsites!
Nine Lives Media recently asked us, “Can you build a Twitter aggregator on top of WordPress?” We answered, “Sure!”ContentRobot then built them two blog-powered tweetsites that we wanted to share with everyone.
MSPtweet
This site tracks top executives, entrepreneurs, experts, coaches and businesses from across the global managed services industry. For the loudest tweets in Managed Services, check out http://www.msptweet.com/
VARtweet
This site tracks top channel chiefs and their partner programs. For the loudest tweets in the IT channel, check …
