Wordpress is the leading blogging software for pro-bloggers as well as amateur bloggers around the world. So, be it latest news (Wordpress 2.7) or tweaks, we cover it. The Achilles heel of WordPress is its security, which they try to continuously address by frequent patches after every major release similar to Microsoft Windows. If you are a Wordpress user, you must be very concerned with security issues and for good reasons. In this world of growing intrusions, hacking, cracking and data-thefts, security is of major concern for a starter as well as for a pro. Here are 20 Plugins and tips for you to help you get a good sleep at night assuring you that your blog is in safe hands (read WordPress security plug-ins).

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Whatever be the latest news in technology and development, Taragana has it. We have already reviewed all the upcoming OS releases with detailed features. So when something as popular and happening as Wordpress was keen to release its newest version, we couldn't be far off. Wordpress 2.7 was due on 10th November, 2008. But due to some unavoidable circumstances it is delayed for two weeks. We tried and tested Wordpress 2.7 beta 1 and here are the treasures.

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Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold (provides automatic machine translation for WordPress blogs) is fully compatible with WordPress 2.6. Existing customers of Translator Plugin Pro & Gold can upgrade to the latest version of WordPress without any concerns wrt. Translator plugins.

Frankly I am tired of the Flash based image uploader. It doesn't work most of the time, when it works it is pretty unstable, frequently fails on Opera, doesn't work (for me) on Firefox in Linux even with latest Flash, doesn't work with .htaccess fix and more. In short it is simply not worth it. You are much better off without the Flash based image / media uploader in WordPress 2.5.1. There is a simple way you can disable it and forget it.

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Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs in 13+1 languages - German,Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian.

The new features in version 5.1 are:

1. In the option page (under Advanced -> Miscellaneous section) it now provides SQL queries which you can execute in your database to significantly speed-up Translator Pro on heavily trafficked sites. It adds indexes to the tables for faster querying.

2. Improved user interface

3. Translator Plugin Pro adds a new feature to verify completeness of translated pages by checking for keywords or tags in your page. This elegantly handles the failures in third party translation engine. This adds to the extensive checks we perform to ensure quality and completeness of translated pages.

4. New translation engine errors have been added for automatic fail-over support and load-balancing.

5. Overall performance improvement and optimizations have been added to this release.

6. New extensive documentation have been added in this release, old documentation revised and updated. You can read the full documentation here. Don't forget to check our developer API for writing your custom look and extensions.

You can read about all the features here.

We now provide online help desk on our new support site. Please register there for customer support.

Please post your feedback in Translator Plugin Pro forum.

Translator Plugin Pro 5.1 is fully compatible with WordPress 2.5 as well as earlier version of WordPress.

Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro & Gold collects and display useful statistics on the functionality of the plugin as well as the intelligent caching engine.

The statistics is available from Translator Plugin Pro Options panel in Basic tab and in Advanced -> Cache Management tab. It is also available for display on your web pages as described below.
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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:
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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.

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XDForum (example: Anaconda Forum) is a nice basic forum software which works seamlessly with WordPress blogs (download our free theme and plugins). Unfortunately it works out-of-the-box with default permalinks only. Most site today use nice permalinks. This mini-tutorial will teach you how to use XDForum with nice permalinks (how to enable; tips and more).

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I just had quite some experience using WordPress 2.x's new WYSIWYG editor based on Tiny MCE, while publishing documentation for 3 column Anaconda Theme for WordPress. Two word summary of WYSIWYG editor: it sucks.

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Update: Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro Version 3.0 has been released. Please read the details here.

We are testing version 3.0 of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress 2.x blogs. We are overwhelmed by the encouraging response from the WordPress community. After the initial releases we had lots of positive response and feedback on how we can improve this plugin. And we listened to all of your requests. The key features of this new release are:
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