The latest release, 3.3.2, of WordPress is now available. We recommend that everyone upgrade their installs of WordPress and and plugins you are running to ensure you are running the most secure and reliable system for your website. Here are the details of the release.
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WordPress 3.3.2 Update Now Available
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April 2012 Website Client Spotlights
Here at Page Progressive, we create a variety of websites for a broad range of clients. From time to time, we like to highlight some of our client’s websites along with whom they are and what they do, so others can be aware of area businesses and organizations. This month, we are spotlighting Scottie’s Building Services and With Love from Jesus Ministries.
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Tim Thumb…No Not a Fairy Tale
If you run a WordPress website, especially if you use a pre-built template, there is a good chance that your theme uses the timthumb.php script for resizing images. That script was found to be exploitable several months ago, and there has been updates released to patch your file, but many don’t know how to do it or even that they need to.Enter the Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner. This is a free plugin for WordPress that will scan your site to see if you are using an outdated version of the timthumb.php file and if so, fix it for you.
If you host with Page Progressive, then we’ve scanned our server and patched any old timthumb.php files but if you are hosting elsewhere, it’s possible your host has not scanned for it and you may need to check to make sure you are not vulnerable to this exploit. It could lead to your site getting hacked and allow malware to be distributed though it, and that will ruin just about anyone’s day.
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WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release
Please note the below update from the WordPress team. If you are running WordPress, don’t forget to update your plugins and WordPress regularly!WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team.
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WordPress Now Powering Nearly a Quarter of New Active US Websites
How You can be a Part of the Success of WordPress Powering 22 out of every 100 new active domains and 14.7% of the top million websites worldwide, WordPress has shown repeatedly that it is a viable force on the Web. In fact, in July, WordPress.com blogs exceeded the 50 million mark and each month there are 287 million people making 2.5 billion page views of WordPress.com blogs.
At his State of the Word address in July, Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, credited the success of WP with the ease of use and its affordability. This ease of use and customization is due in part to the 15,000 plugins available at WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
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36 Best WordPress Plugins for Building your Business
As one of the most popular blogging platforms and content management systems, WordPress is a “household name” for anyone familiar with web design. With its ease of use, customization and extensive features, WordPress is a one-stop solution for just about anything, thanks to the vast number of great WordPress plugins.
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WordPress 3.2 Update
Yesterday Matt Mullenweg, a bigwig with the WordPress content management system, posted this:
Last week we released WordPress 3.2, a version focused on making WP faster and lighter with a refreshed dashboard, new Twenty Eleven theme, a zen writing mode, and more: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/gershwin/
We waited to email because there were some issues with the JSON module on some web hosts, which the just-released version 3.2.1 fixes. Download from WordPress.org or click the update button in your dashboard to get the latest.What else is new? We’re doing a census of the WordPress World, if you have 5 minutes take this survey:
http://wpsurvey.surveydaddy.com/s/wp-2011-e?src=ema
We’re going to tally up the results and present them in my State of the Word talk next month in San Francisco, so send it to everyone you know who uses WordPress so we get the most representative sample.
There are also some fun WordCamps approaching in San Diego, Portsmouth, Boston, Chicago, Fayetteville, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles:
Hope to see you at one soon!
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What’s Up with WordPress?
As one of the most popular content management systems used, WordPress
has been making headlines since its first release by Matt Mullenweg in 2003. It’s security and ease of use makes it ideal
for web designers who want their site to be flexible with all of the plugins available, yet is still simple enough for the beginning
blogger who just wants a place to update a few pages on their website occasionally.
If you run a WordPress website, especially if you use a pre-built template, there is a good chance that your theme uses the timthumb.php script for resizing images. That script was found to be exploitable several months ago, and there has been updates released to patch your file, but many don’t know how to do it or even that they need to.
Please note the below update from the WordPress team. If you are running WordPress, don’t forget to update your plugins and WordPress regularly!
How You can be a Part of the Success of WordPress
As one of the most popular