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.
- Our new update notification lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new
api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.
- We’ve cleaned up URLs a bunch in a feature we call canonical URLs which does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more. This helps your users, and it also helps your search engine optimization, as search engines like for each page to be available in one canonical location.
- Our new pending review feature will be great for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft and hope someone noticed it.
- There is new advanced WYSIWYG functionality (we call it the kitchen sink button) that allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.
I’m gonna upgrade this right away! Hopefully I don’t get the same problem that I mentioned earlier and all the plugins are supported for this new version of WordPress.
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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? 
Anything new with the latest version? As far as I can see, there’s nothing much difference. The only disappointment for me is that the “no permission” problem is still not fixed. The problem with this bug is that you have no permission to create categories, delete comments, adding blogroll and so on. The error message will be something like this: “You have no permission to do that“. Posting a new post will cause some trouble as well because once after you click the publish button, a prompt message: ” Do you want to edit this post?” will be shown. Nothing will happen after you click “yes” or “no” button, except the whole post will be gone after that. Try writing a long post with few hundred words in it and the whole post gone after you click the publish button. Isn’t that frustrating? 
As far as I know, not many WordPress users are experiencing this. Hence, there were no proper solutions given by the WordPress support team. However, I’ve found a ticket in WordPress.org that will solve this issue. Basically it is some problem related to AJAX JS code. What you need to do is replace some codings in wp-includes/pluggable.php. Read here for the detailed explanations.
For those who are lost of what the ticket is talking about, just download the pluggable.php file that I’ve modified and replace the same file under wp-includes folder. Mind you that I don’t guarantee this solution will work, so remember to do a backup of the file before you replace it. 
Download Modified Version of pluggable.php here
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.
Download WordPress 2.1.3 here
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
It appears that my blog does not indexed well in MSN search with only 84 pages compared to Google which is 1420 pages. I searched over the internet for solutions but it appears that this actually related to the permalink structures. Why? It is said that MSN Search does not index well for pages with long URLs. Consider that MSN Search is the 2nd highest traffic site in Alexa rankings, this could reduce a lot of traffic to my blog.
Solutions?
I’ve changed my permalink structure to a shorter one with only /%postname%/ after the main URL. From what I’ve searched through the net, a permalink with dates on it is useless and only makes the link to be complicated for search engines. The downside of changing the permalink is that you will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid,moreover, losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to you. Other than that, by doing so will hurt your google pagerank as well.
I did the changes just to test out whether my theory is true or not. There are still no proof that changing this permalink would help search engine indexing. Come to think of it, is it worth it to change the permalink just because of something that I’m not really sure of? What is your opinion then?
I actually found a plugin that can help migrating the permalink structure without losing any traffic to your site~ So stay tune!
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.
Two of the new buttons are “Paste as Plain Text” and “Paste from Word.” Nice for those who use such things. I like the custom character thing too. Now I can easily add ∞ whenever I need it…
Source: Solo-technology
I’m really ashamed because I don’t even realized such things exist after using Wordpress 2.1 for 2 weeks! There are some discussions on making the row of buttons permanent but it requires changing the codes in Wordpress core files. So be careful for those of you who want to change it. 
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.
- New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
- You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
- Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions.
- Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
- Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
- More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
- Pages can now be drafts, or private.
- Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
- The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
- Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
- Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
- The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
- A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.
I had upgraded my Wordpress to version 2.1. Well the new features worked remarkably well but I had a problem with the javascript. I was using Mozilla Firefox to write this post and this is how it looked like when I try to edit the image position using the image button.
Looks nice right? The editing box will pop up in the middle of the page without opening a new window. The problem is, I can’t even close it. Nothing happened even I kept on clicking on the X button. I have to scroll using my mouse roll button within the pop up to get to the update button. Everything works fine using Internet Explorer but not on Firefox. Anyone can tell me why? I don’t know is this problem only happen to me or everyone. Maybe it is just only me… hmm…
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