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  WordPress 2.8.6 Released

  1664 readers In case you didn’t notice the message on top of your WordPress dashboard, WordPress 2.8.6 is now available. The release fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered and logged in users with posting privileges. Basically if you have untrusted users on your blog with a user level of “Author” or above, upgrading

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  WordPress 2.9 Is Available

  2339 readersIf you visit WordPress.org you will notice that the classic blue download button now says "Download WordPress 2.9". This is a major upgrade, and brings some really cool new features, including: Original Post: WordPress 2.9 Is Available

• WordPress 2.9.1

  4023 readersAfter over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress  2.9.1.  This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts.  If any of these issues

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  WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

  1043 readersThe WordPress team is currently hard at work in completing version 2.9 but that doesn’t mean they’re going to allow their older versions to be open with vulnerabilities. As a security release, WordPress releases version 2.8.6 which fixes two security problems that can be exploited by untrusted users in your blog who have posting privileges.

• How to Override the Slug or Page Permalink in WordPress

  2427 readersThe Problem: Recently, one of our clients wanted to change the slug, or permalink, from “about-2″, back to just plain ol’ “about”.  I tried changing the slug from the “quick edit” mode. I tried to Edit the Permalink from the Post Page. No luck, it kept reverting back to about-2.  After doing a few searches,

• WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1

  1880 readersUnfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser issues, we are quickly releasing 2.9.1, the first maintenance release of the 2.9 line.  Help

• WordPress 3.1.2

  6198 readersWordPress 3.1.2 is now available and is a security release for all previous WordPress versions. This release addresses a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts. The issue was discovered by a member of our security team, WordPress developer Andrew Nacin, with Benjamin Balter. We suggest you update to 3.1.2 promptly, especially if

• WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1 Released, Fixes Bugs in WordPress 2.9

  2698 readersA few days back, Jeff had told you about WordPress 2.9.1 being around the corner. The WordPress team has worked hard to get it out of the doors and a beta version of WordPress 2.9.1 is now available for downloads. It fixes bugs with scheduled posts and pingbacks which some users had been facing, due

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  Caution When Updating To WordPress 2.8

  1087 readersThanks to Heiko of WordPress Deutschland and Code Styling Project who brought up the problem on WordPress Deutschland: Users reporting me, that they are missing files, after they automatically updated to WordPress version 2.8 and there were a problem while updating. I checked out the WordPress Trac and found a brand new record, which confirms this:

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  WordPress 2.7.1 Released

  369 readersFixing 68 tickets, WordPress 2.7.1 is a maintenance release, not a security release, and so it doesn’t appear to be a “have to upgrade right this second” release, but I would definitely give it a go if you have been waiting for a point-one release or if you want to test out the core upgrade