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…
WordPress 2.8.4 was released in August, and if you haven’t already upgraded, you must do so as soon as possible. If you are running an earlier version of WordPress, you are vulnerable to a series of hack attempts, which are taking place right now. According to Lorelle on WordPress: Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress…
WordPress custom fields are a fantastic feature of WordPress, which allow you to use WordPress as a general Content Management System (CMS) for your blog or WordPress powered site. Custom fields are little “bits” of information which you can store alongside a WordPress post, or page. A custom field has two components: A key/value “pair”…
WordPress 2.8.4 has been released. It is highly reccommended that you upgrade your WordPress blog or website as soon as possible, as this release addresses security and stability issues. Matt released this note explaining the release: Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass…
The developers behind WordPress have released a new update. This is a security fix release and the developers suggest everyone should upgrade their installations as soon as possible. Ryan Boren said in his post: Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1. Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Several…
Today is the last day for early bird registration for WordCamp Fraser Valley taking place on August 22, 2009. The registration prices go up as of August 1st. I am excited to be speaking at the event. The topic of my talk is: “Using Custom Fields for Fun and Profit“. WordPress Custom Fields are a…
WordPress 2.8.2 has been released, it is recommended that you upgrade immediately. This release fixes security issues. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.