WordPress news for beginners and developers
Although this is not a direct WordPress vulnerability, it is a severe vulnerability that webmasters should be aware.
A new paper out this week details the exploit of MD5 and Certificate Athorities (CA). What makes this such a scary and threatening attack is the use of MD5 to secure a website identity. Using the HTTPS protocol, web surfers verify the identity of secure sites by checking for the lock icon and the use of HTTPS in the web address.
Using this exploit, an attacker can fake the authenticity of a website by …
The newest theme generator for WordPress is called PixoPoint. Read More…
According to Lorelle VanFossen WordPress 2.7 will be released within days:
The website of President Elect Barack Obama, has turned on IntenseDebate comments. Read More
Michael Kubler has posted some code regarding the image caption feature that has been in WordPress since 2.6.
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According to Donncha O Caoimh a new version of WP Super Cache is available.
This release addresses some issues large or busy sites had with deleting expired cache files. Some sites generated so many cache files that there were two [sic] many files generated, even when those files were cleared out every hour. To fix that I limited the recursive function that deletes the files to 100 deletions at a time. That function is called until all the cache files are deleted (or strictly speaking, no files are deleted. That’s how …
According to Mark Jaquith:
Subscribe to Comments puts a checkbox in your comments form that, if checked when leaving a comment, will e-mail that commenter all followup comments on that post.
This is great news for those using WordPress.com. It should help increase the number of comments, and increase discussion because of comments. Great Work!
WordCamp Whistler is coming January 24th, 2009 in Whistler BC, Canada. It will be held at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler.
WordCamp Las Vegas will be held January 10th and 11th, 2009. Read More…
