October 28th, 2008
While reading up on the upcoming changes in WP 2.7,I came across an article aboutThe New 2.7 Dashboard. Tucked towards the bottom was this little ditty:
rather than including something rushed and clunky, we’re holding off until a later version
They were speaking of some “inbox” feature that was temporarily in trunk, but has been removed. I must say, that’s one of the first times I’ve seen that acknowledgment in WordPress development, and more often than naught, it has been the contrary. New features have been thrown in at the last minute, and result in confusion by users, too many bugs to count, and dissatisfaction by long time users. It’s nice to see the prudent approach being taken for a change, particularly in a release that seems to already have quite a bit of change included.
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October 28th, 2008
WP Freedom Blog is sponsoring a contest to find the “coolest blogs”. First prize includes $500 cash (via paypal) and $500 in services. 2nd place half that, and 3rd $250 total cash and prizes.
Winners will be selected by voting, after a selection by the host blog of the eligible entrants. To get rules and specifics visit the hosting site, or go visit one of the cooler blogs I subscribe to , Deziner Folio.
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October 23rd, 2008
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately.
WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.6.3.
Not sure what “low risk” really means, but I never recommend skipping security releases. The official post goes on to provide the affected file, so a full upgrade isn’t necessary, which is nice. Not sure I’ve seen that done in a long time. Guess it’s a case of 2.7 being close, and no desire to roll any other bug fixes in with this release. And because of that, it would seem that doing this upgrade is a no brainer.
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October 23rd, 2008
New Firefox addon to help user easily get to useful pages in the codex, access admin section of sites user is registered to as well as :
- - Update Notification on new WordPress versions
- - Website Profiles
- - Custom Shortcuts
- - Various preference settings
WordPress Helper :: Firefox Add-ons.
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October 19th, 2008
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October 15th, 2008
WordPress Acquires Irish Startup Polldaddy
Like Intense Debate, Polldaddy doesn’t offer its technology to WordPress publishers alone - and it doesn’t plan to phase out its support for other platforms post-acquisition. But we can expect both companies’ efforts to be driven primarily towards improving WordPress - both the open source version offered at WordPress.org
How acquiring a closed source service and rolling it under the Automattic umbrella could at all improve the open source version is beyond me. What would it do to such popular poll plugins that already exist for WordPress, such as Lester Chan’s WP Poll?
What and how Automattic develop wordpress.com should be of no concern, however, as has been the case with gravatars, and certainly some of these other services they’ve acquired, it unfortunately is of concern with those who are worried about the long term development of WordPress.
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