WordPress 2.8.5 has been released, and is now available for download. This release has been dubbed a security”hardening” release, meaning there have been proactive measures taken to further secure WordPress, and to prepare for the future release of WordPress 2.9. From the official WordPress Blog: As you know over the past couple of months we…
If you have a popular blog, or WordPress based site, you are no doubt familiar with “Comment spam” — little annoying spam messages which site vistors/nasty folks/spam robots deposit in the comment areas of your blog or sit. There are many reasons to protect your comments section from spammers. Here are just a few: It…
Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. In this video, he talks about the past, present and future of WordPress:
I recently stumbled upon a great guide which goes into detail on how to install WordPress locally on Windows XP using WampServer. The guide contains 20 pages, with lots of great screenshots to help users through the installation. The guide can be either browsed online, or downloaded as a PDF. This is very useful for…
Earlier this week, Andy Peatling announced that BuddyPress version 1.1 was released publically. This is big news for anyone who uses or is familiar with BuddyPress. What is BuddyPress? BuddyPress is essentially a suite of WordPress plugins and themes which extends the multi-user version of WordPress (known as WordPress MU) by bringing social networking features…