WordPress 2.5 Released in Error, Withdrawn & Released Again

November 11th, 2008 WordPress 2.7 (read detailed review) beta 2 fixes some crucial and long standing bugs in WordPress, so much so that it is worth looking into adopting it without waiting for the final release. The key fixes in WordPress 2.7 Beta 2: Javascript in admin panel was broken when a blog had no comments, causing several of the UI elements to freeze.

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.

July 31st, 2006 WordPress 2.0.4 is available for download. This release contains several important security fixes, so it’s recommended upgrade for all users.

August 14th, 2008 The business of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro and Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold has been transferred over to Wordpress Translator. All future news and updates on Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold will be available from the new site.

December 30th, 2005 I have been hearing horror stories across the board with WordPress 2.0 release. The wordpress forum is filled with wide ranging issues.

March 10th, 2006 WordPress released yet another security release 2.0.2 fixing (yet again) unannounced XSS security bugs. I have not upgraded any of my blogs to 2.x release.

June 8th, 2007 Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro is fully supported on all the latest versions of WordPress viz. WordPress 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x Release versions as well as WordPress 2.3 development version.

August 23rd, 2006 Update: I am happy to announce the long awaited release of Anaconda theme for WordPress 2.x (and above) blogs. Your search for a good css based three column WordPress theme is finally over.

August 17th, 2006 Update: I am happy to announce the long awaited release of Anaconda theme for WordPress 2.x (and above) blogs. Your search for a good css based three column WordPress theme is finally over.

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.

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.

September 24th, 2007 A simple google search reveals over 55.5 million pages are generated using WordPress today. The WordPress search volume shows a healthy increase over time as can be seen from the graph.

June 29th, 2006 To help find WordPress bugs out of the upcoming 2.0.4 and 2.1 releases, WordPress development team is holding a Bug Hunt on July 4th. They will be finding and fixing bugs and cleaning up the bug tracker.

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.

March 17th, 2005 It was surprising to find no comment spam after installing WordPress 1.5, noting that I haven't enabled CAPTCHA with this upgrade. However I soon realized that I wasn't receiving any normal comments too on very commentable articles.