22 Reasons to Switch to New WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

August 30th, 2007 WordPress team has released version 2.3 after 3 months of "feverish" work. It is obviously targeted for the adventurous and savvy to test and provide feedback for the final release.

April 26th, 2009 A comforting day indeed. Matt Mullenweg is the author of the popular blogging software , WordPress.

May 5th, 2006 Many of my posts have multiple pages. WordPress today doesn't provide a visible way to add multiple pages to your (single) article / post.

July 3rd, 2005 I came across the Giraffe Theme from Urban Design which is unique for several reasons. To my knowledge it is the only theme which comes with an administrative for customizing colors, no of posts and other details: Change colour scheme Change font and font size Change whether to have a full-width lead post, or more traditional two-column layout Change page dimensions Configure number of lead posts, recent posts, random posts, and latest comments Switch logo on or off The theme is innovative in its layout and positioning of content.

May 14th, 2007 WordPress 2.2 is about to be released. Currently the release candidate 2 has the following features: PHP 5.2.2 fixes: WP importer now works in PHP 5.2.2 Workaround for PHP 5.2.2 bug that breaks XMLRPC Fixed fatal error in cache.php by flushing output buffers during shutdown.

July 2nd, 2007 Here are 6 legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want to buy an iPhone: 6. You hate Steve Jobs and / or Apple fanatics.

May 13th, 2005 Note: My WordPress database name is wordpress. I will use it in the example below.

January 11th, 2007 While WordPress 2.0.6 is still hot a serious security defect (SQL injection attack) was found and fixed in WordPress 2.0.7, which is currently available as RC1 (release candidate 1). The key defects fixed are: Security defect Worked around a PHP bug for PHP 4.x less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5.x less than 5.1.4 with register_globals ON that could potentially lead to SQL injection and other security breaches.

November 30th, 2007 I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more.

June 8th, 2008 Traditionally WordPress is backed up by backing the database and the files separately, if required. WordPress 2.5.1 introduces a much simpler way to backup the database in xml format on your desktop.

September 23rd, 2008 When using enums in a switch, it is almost natural to assume they will be used like a regular switch. Unfortunately to accomodate enums, Java had to enhance its specification and enums in switch behave differently than regular switch statements in two significant and non-trivial ways.

July 12th, 2005 I have started a page dedicated to WordPress users only. Here you will find links to latest WordPress plugins, news, information, tips, how-to and guidelines.

June 1st, 2006 The new features / fixes are: Small performance enhancements Movable Type / Typepad importer fix Enclosure (podcasting) fix Bugtraq reported issue & backporting of security enhancements from 2.1 (nonces) Misc. fixes etc....

September 3rd, 2006 Single quotes are a royal pain when using WordPress to post your code. WordPress, in its infinite wisdom, does some really bad things to it.

March 27th, 2008 WordPress Trac says: Milestone 2.5 Due in 22 years (04/01/30). Read on for more details.