Yes it’s here! The new version of WordPress was launched several hours ago. Code named “Dexter”, this release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more. Here’s a brief description of the new features:
- Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. We’ve included importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati Tag plugins so if you’ve already been using a tagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system. The tagging system is also wicked-fast, so your host won’t mind.
The latest version of WordPress 2.2.3 was released 4 days ago. Being a WordPress 2.2.2 user, I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest version. It is better to upgrade to the latest version since there were some bugs in the previous version that were fixed in this version. Or else, what is the purpose of coming out a new version? 
WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10 has just been released few hours ago. After getting some security issues and hack attempts last month, the team had been working hard on it just to prevent the same thing happen again.
These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems.
The fact is, how many users will update their WordPress version whenever there is a new version released? Will you? To be honest, I don’t . The best solution for me is to upgrade after a few versions released.
In WordPress, we can actually create a custom URL structure for our posts’ permalinks. There are actually many types of permalink structures that you can use for your blog such as something like this:
http://www.m3nghua.com/?p=123
http://www.m3nghua.com/index.php/2007/03/16/sample-post/
And recently I found that a few blogs using permalinks like this.
http://www.m3nghua.com/sample-post/
What is this all about? It started back when I checked my site for the value of my domain. Dnscoop actually shows the result of my blog’s indexed pages in search engines. This is the result:
Google: 1,420
MSN Search: 84
Yahoo!: 792
I received a mail from my web hosting asking me to upgrade my wordpress version if I’m using Wordpress 2.1.1. It appears that a hacker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file.
Although not all downloads of 2.1.1 were affected, Wordpress team are declaring the entire version dangerous and have released a new version 2.1.2 that includes minor updates and entirely verified files. So update immediately if you are using version 2.1.1. Hopefully this will not happen again. Damn hackers!~
Download Wordpress 2.1.2 Here
Have you ever wish that there were more formatting buttons in Wordpress 2.1 post editor? Worry no more because there’s actually a whole row of buttons hidden there! This is what I just found out about Wordpress 2.1 through QuickOnlineTips.
You can actually go from
to this
How cool is that? All you need to do is Press alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) and behold when on the Write Post screen of your Wordpress Admin.
Wordpress version 2.1 is finally released this morning. The Wordpress team claims that they had done over 550 bug fixes on this version! Now that’s a lot of bug huh?
These are the changes in this new version:
- Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
- Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
- The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
- Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
Yes, Wordpress 2.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. There are some cool new features in Wordpress 2.1:
- Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions
- Autosave
- Tabbed editor
- Lossless XML import and export for moving between WordPress blogs
- WYSIWYG spellchecker
- Search engine blocker for private blogs
- You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else
- Links can now have sub-categories
- Redesigned login screen
It was only 10 days when Wordpress 2.0.6 was launched and now there is an update on 2.0.7. The Wordpress team claimed that there is a bug in certain versions of PHP recently that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. It is recommended that all Wordpress user to upgrade to this latest version.
Because this is a much smaller update than previous versions, you do not have to update all of WordPress’ files if you’re upgrading from version 2.0.6. Here is the list of files that have changed since 2.0.6:
* wp-admin/inline-uploading.php
* wp-admin/post.php
* wp-includes/classes.php
* wp-includes/functions.php
* wp-settings.php
* wp-includes/version.php
The latest version of Wordpress 2.0.6 is available a few hours ago. If you are a Wordpress user, it is recommended to update your Wordpress version to the latest ones.
Here’s what’s new:
- The aforementioned security fixes.
- HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
- Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
- Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.
They also note that this is the last update before the release of WP 2.1 which is now in it’s beta phase.
Download WordPress 2.0.6
