WordPress 2.8.6 Released and a 2.9 Preview
I got the notice last night that WordPress 2.8.6 was released to fix a pair of security holes. So I hopped right into the admin console from my Iphone and in 2 minutes, it was…
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WordPress 2.8.5 Released
A new WordPress release came out last night. Unlike the previous, this is what they are calling “a hardening release”, i.e. it is generally designed to make the code base more secure, but doesn’t fix…
WordPress 2.8.4 – Update Now
The folks at Automattic released a security update for WordPress today due to a very specific bug: …a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to…
WordPress Revision History to the Rescue
(Uh, Jeff, Kelly, move on, nothing to read here. Nothing of interest to you at all…really…) I had one of those moments today. Mistakes were made. Bad mistakes. The “oh crap, I’m editing on the…
My WordPress Plugins
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve seen a lot more people making the switch to WordPress. Why not? The system is utterly configurable, with a plugin (or 5) for virtually every need. The problem is…
WordPress 2.6.3 Released, and Issues with Auto Upgrade
The folks at Automattic today released WordPress 2.6.3 which is a minor security patch to the Snoopy script they use for displaying rss feeds in the admin area. Not an utterly crucial upgrade, but one…
Geek.com Relaunched
For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals. We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.
This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That ought to put to rest the “WordPress doesn’t scale” talk I hear around the net. Wordpress scales just fine for large sites if you set your server up properly:
WordPress 2.6 – It’s a CMS, Baby!
I remember when I first setup WordPress back in 2003, the old 1.x days, my comment was that “It’s just like a CMS (content management system) with most of the functionality removed.” Well, with the…
MySQL Table Locking & WordPress Scalability
I ran into an interesting issue recently, and since I had so much trouble finding a solution, I’ll post about it. We have a very large WordPress site with somewhere around 32,000 posts. Sometime during…
WordPress Security 101
Last Wednesday I delivered a presentation entitled “WordPress Security 101” which got the discussions started in earnest about WordPress Security among our team. | View | Upload your own Here are the takeaways: Keep your…