“WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked..”
Read More...Well, this wasn’t expected. At least not so close to the release date of Wordpress 2.8. Anyway, the Wordpress Development Team has announced that Wordpress 2.8.1 Beta is now available for download.
Read More...Wordpress has finally released the official 2.8 release named “Baker” to the general public. Which other than the fact that this is inevitably a good thing, the fact that they say they fixed over 790 bugs makes me both want to jump for joy but also analyze the fact that there were 790 bugs while I only knew of a handful.
Read More...If you guys aren’t already aware, Wordpress 2.8 Beta 2 has been released.
Hopefully we’ll have a stable non-beta release version here soon.
Read More...Woohoo, Wordpress 2.8 is here — albeit a beta, I’m excited, and the features list is relatively extensive.
Read More...“Okay, so here’s the deal. Modifying the nav/header to be a little nicer is was a last-minute design idea, and if it can’t be worked out in the time we have left before 2.8 (which is very little), we’ll just wait until 2.9 to work on it. But! If someone comes up with something the community really likes and it doesn’t break any of the design guidelines for the rest of WordPress, we could sneak it in.”
Read More...“It took far more planning than actual coding, but we finally developed a solution that breaks the dependence on a username and password, but maintains backward compatibility with existing plugins that hook into the authentication code. WordPress 2.8 includes a new filter called authenticate which is passed three parameters..”
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