David Robertshaw http://davidrobertshaw.com My Wordpress Playroom Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:44:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Plugins – The Power of WordPress http://davidrobertshaw.com/blog/2009/12/08/plugins-the-power-of-wordpress/ http://davidrobertshaw.com/blog/2009/12/08/plugins-the-power-of-wordpress/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:27:13 +0000 David http://www.davidrobertshaw.com/?p=264 The real power of WordPress comes from the multitude of plugins that are available to expand its functionality.

I have used a variety of plugins on the sites I have created and I have to say it is so much easier now Worpdress supports adding and updating them from within the Admin interface.

More to follow on this subject…

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Details of WordPress 2.8.6 can be found here.

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]]> http://davidrobertshaw.com/blog/2009/09/12/gallery/feed/ 0 WordPress 2.8.4 Released http://davidrobertshaw.com/blog/2009/09/07/wordpress-2-8-4-released/ http://davidrobertshaw.com/blog/2009/09/07/wordpress-2-8-4-released/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:36:07 +0000 David http://www.davidrobertshaw.com/?p=254 There is a worm around at the moment that old, unpatched versions of WordPress may suffer attacks from.

This worm registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.8.4) is available in two formats from the links below. It has some important security issues fixed so I suggest you upgrade now.

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