New release of Wordpress:
Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update.
This release includes:
* Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
* Better performance for those who have many categories
* Media Uploader fixes
* An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
* Widget Administration fixes
* Various usability improvements
* Layout fixes for IE
Keep your Wordpress software up to date. The latest major version is V2.5
If you are using the V2.0 branch, the latest version is V2.0.11. Worpdress states, “we have committed to maintaining our 2.0 branch with security and critical fixes until 2010. (Yes that’s 5 years after it was originally released in 2005.)”
“There is a wave of attacks going around targeting old WordPress blogs, particularly those on the 2.1 or 2.2 branch. They’re exploiting problems that have been fixed for a year or more.”
No time like the present, so go ahead update!
SquatCrunch has been testing and playing with Wordpress since V1.2, and we find that the dedicated Wordpress gurus just keep making it easier and easier to use and update their software package.
We recently did some updating and testing for a friend during which we performed several updates and a few restores. The restores were not required because of failed updates, but simply performed during a “what if” demo. What if the update fails? What if I do not like the latest version after it is installed?
When performing updates, first disable all plugins (third party plugins may or may not be compatible with the installation version) then backup your database and your exisiting files. If the update fails and you are unable to resolve it, you can then restore the backup database and files.
Once you have sucessfully updated to the new version, activate your plugins one at a time. This will help in determining any plugin incompatibilites. If a plugin causes errors, remove it from your plugin directory until you can find an update for it.
Wordpress updates we performed:
V2.0.10 to V2.0.11, then
V2.0.11 to V2.5, then
V2.5 back to V2.0.10, then
V2.0.10 back to V2.5
V2.2.3 to V2.3.3, then
V2.3.3 to V2.5, then
V2.5 to V2.3.3, then
V2.3.3 back to V2.5
The current Wordpress update process is sinfully fast, and easy as pie!
Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin was written for and requires Wordpress version 2.1.
- Tested with Wordpress v2.1.3: Works as expected. Nice application.
- Tested with Wordpress v2.0.10: Easy work-around while keeping most of the functionality.
Comment out the if statement at lines 611-612 in twitter-tools.php to get it to work in a WP 2.0 version. The wp_enqueue_script function was introduced in Wordpress v2.1. You will not be able to create a tweet from the sidebar, but everything else should be ok.
if (is_admin() || $aktt->tweet_from_sidebar) {
wp_enqueue_script(’prototype’);
}
Powered by Twitter Tools.
Update: The twitter account was deleted after testing. Edited to remove broken twitter status links.
Alex King released version 1.0 of Twitter Tools, a WordPress plugin that does a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
Features include:
* Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
* Create a blog post from each of your tweets
* Create a daily digest post of your tweets
* Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
* Post a tweet from your sidebar
* Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
* Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)
The WP dev team has decided to hold back version 2.2 for at least a week or two from the original date of April 23.
Wordpress V2.1.3 was released.
And, off the 2.0 branch Wordpress V2.0.10 was released.
And, as usual Mark on Wordpress has his Changes.zip and Diff files available. Thanks Mark.
You can now use your WordPress.com blog URL as an OpenID.
With the recent flurry of Wordpress releases, we certainly are getting a lot of practice upgrading the application. Thanks Matt, et al. I think.
Wordpress V2.1.2 was released. If you are currently at V2.1.1, you should upgrade to this release.
