jhay on December 30th, 2007

Just an hour ago, a new upgrade to WordPress has been released, WordPress 2.3.2 is now out. As posted on the WP Development Blog:
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about [...]

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One of the great advantages of blogging on your own webhost is the ability to create multiple blogs and use one of those to play and mess around with WordPress. This compes particularly handy if you’re either a plugin developer, a theme designer or your average WP hacker.
Of course power bloggers are a combination of [...]

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jhay on August 6th, 2007

What a way to start the new week right? The wonderful guys WordPress has just released the latest version of our beloved blogging software, WordPress 2.2.2 as security fix and minor bug fixes. We’ve been told that plugin incompatibilities will be very minimal if none at all.
The files that have been updated in this particular [...]

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jhay on May 17th, 2007

Yesterday’s release of WordPress 2.2 has prompted a wave of upgrades again not just in WordPress-powered blogs but it includes the hundreds if not thousands of WordPress plugins that make the blogging software one, if not the best blogging platform out there.
Also, yesterday’s successful upgrade of this blog to WordPress 2.2 was smooth and painless [...]

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jhay on May 16th, 2007

Against my early pronouncements about a month ago, I gave in to my obsessive-compulsiveness and upgraded this blog to the latest major release of WordPress which is version 2.2 which was named after renowned saxophonist Stan Getz.
The reasons why one should hold out on upgrading immediately once version 2.2 comes out is that plugins you [...]

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jhay on April 20th, 2007

In a surprising turn of events, the much awaited release of WordPress 2.2 has been delayed to sometime between the 30th of April or the 7th of May.
What gives? They removed the much-talked about tagging support and decided to hold it back until WordPress 2.3 comes out. Looks like every blogger who uses tagging on [...]

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jhay on April 14th, 2007

The next major upgrade to WordPress which is version 2.2 is just less than two weeks from being released for all WP bloggers to enjoy and tinker around with.
This new version has some interesting new features and upgrades:
New User Features

Tagging support
Permalink redirection
Improved comment editing

Developer / Power User Stuff

Atom 1.0 support for feeds.
Multiple format comment feeds, [...]

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