WordPress development team issued a Security Update after a discovery of a vulnerability involving a specially crafted URL that could allow an attacker to bypass a security check to certify a user requested password request. Which will result the admin account to have it’s password reset. Although your WordPress account is not compromised the emails requesting for a password change could be really annoying.
The New WordPress Security Release involves fixes on the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. According to the WordPress Develeopment Community this upgrading is highly recommended. They admitted that some areas were overlooked and 2.3.8 should fix them. Time to hit the update button again.. whew..
July 20, Oh no.. not another wordpress upgrade.. with almost more than a week after the release of wordpress 2.8.1, the development team says: “WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.”, now that’s freakin scary.. thanks to automatic upgrade.
Good things have been happening to WordPress, the developer community is urgent to respond on fixing issues every time a bug and security hole is found. The new wordpress release mend many bugs and toughen up security for plugin administration pages. The development group where notified by a company named “Core Security Technologies” information in the Admin pages are being leaked to unprivileged users, thus this upgrade is a must. [...]
WordPress iPhone App is now available and the best part is “IT’S FREE”, I can’t help but rejoice.. I’ve been waiting for this App. Tried blogging on an iphone with wordpress through safari once and never did it again. Now bloggers can write posts, upload photos, and edit their WordPress blog from iPhone or iPod Touch. It supports both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress, and with the iPhones faster 3g internet [...]
Ever wonder if there’s a way to limit your post content without using the more tag which insert a break-point to cut your post?, Yes theres is, of course this does not limit the content of your post it just limit what wordpress shows on your home page, archive, category, and search pages. WP Limit Post Automatically by Jent Tornell works perfect on wordpress 2.6, the interface is pretty simple [...]
WordPress 2.6 code name “Tyner” named after McCoy Tyner a jazz pianist was released today, it is originally scheduled to be release august of 2008 so what could be the reason for early release? hmmmn.. competition?. The best FREE CMS have again evolved, this keeps me thinking what could they improve with the already powerful blogging platform, after reading the release notes i had come up with this list. Post [...]
Yes its possible to blog on wordpress using your iPhone but here a list of drawbacks.. no copy paste, cannot copy info from another site. no full visual editor won’t work, need to use the built-in HTML editor. cannot upload pictures and put photos on post These are just some of the few things keeping me from blogging from an iPhone, it seems tolerable since I know HTML and I [...]
We need FTP programs like, Transmit, CuteFTP, Macromedia Dreamwaver to upload wordpress files and and install WordPress on our server. However after installation I still use these programs to manage files, but what if you’re on a different computer and theres no FTP program installed?, Okay that’s easy.. there are lot’s of FREE FTP application you can download, but you might need some privileges to install, and like me i’ve [...]
I’ve been wordpressing for several hours now, found several wordpress tools for my other blogs, and of-course some bitter truth on wordpress, and less than an hour i saw this news on woedpress dashboard about the upcoming wordpress version 2.5, there are some complains about wordpress admin section and I’m glad that 2.5 addresses and introduced new Administration functions. A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag [...]
