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.
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.
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.
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!
Stay cool,
Matt
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.
Below is an update from WordPress.org:
“Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.”
I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well.”
WordPress 3.0.2 is available and is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions.
This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, addresses a handful of bugs, and provides some additional security enhancements. Big thanks to Vladimir Kolesnikov for detailed and responsible disclosure of the security issue!
Download 3.0.2 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area. You should update immediately even if you do not have untrusted users.
The world of technology is constantly changing. In fact, by the time you finish reading through this, chances are something new has been developed or released. However, here are some of the more recent advancements in technology, development and communication that you, as a business owner, might care about.
- Relevant results quicker, so you can get what you are looking for faster
- Results are listed before you finish typing; just stop typing, select and go
- You can scroll to search, then see results instantly
- Time
saving-tests show that the average search saves 2 to 5 seconds per
search, which translates into as much as 11 hours per second.
- Ability to sell both tangible and digital products with licensed keys
- Ability to sell affiliate products with your or other affiliate products
- Multiple payment options (PayPal, WorldPay, Cash @ Store…)
- Custom shipping calculation
- Information capture at point of sale
- 6x more likely to publish online articles
- 5x more likely to post blogs
- 7x more likely to post Wikis
- 3x more likely to post product reviews
Sources:
Website Magazine, October 2010; pages 6, 7, 42 & 43
www.Googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/search-now-faster-thatn-speed-of-type.html
Website Magazine, April 2010; pages 6-8, 16
Practical Web Design, Sept. 2010