Published on March 11, 2008 at 8:50 am
I couldn’t help noticing the similarity between the upcoming re-design of the WordPress admin interface and Dictionary.com, and sure enough, Happy Cog has designed both.
Published on February 26, 2008 at 8:23 am
Xconomy has an article about the birth of Automattic, the company started by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. The author has interviewed Mike Hirshland, a partner at Polaris Venture, Automattic’s main investor.
Published on February 23, 2008 at 7:09 pm
The WordPress admin theme has been overhauled for the next version (scheduled to be released mid-March), which means that a lot of plugins’ admin pages could end up looking out of place.
Joost de Valk gives some brief tips on how to mark up plugin admin pages to take advantage of the new styling.
Unfortunately, as he [...]
Published on February 13, 2008 at 11:47 am
Someone named Ferruh has a proof-of-concept cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack against WordPress (HT: DK at BlogSecurity). I’ve tried it out successfully on my own version of WordPress 2.3.3.
The scenario is like this: you go to leave a comment on someone’s site, and surreptitiously that (evil) site tricks you into changing your WordPress admin password [...]
Published on February 11, 2008 at 9:37 pm
One of the WordPress lead developers, Ryan Boren, announced today that WordPress 2.5 was going into “feature-freeze.” That means that the remaining month until 2.5’s March 10 release will be spent fixing the bugs in existing 2.5 features, not adding more.
And that’s a lot of bugs, as much of the admin redesign hasn’t yet [...]
Published on February 3, 2008 at 12:04 am
Today a serious security flaw in the current version of WordPress surfaced in the support forums. Basically, a user with login rights but not editing capabilities can edit any post using XML-RPC. A quick fix is to delete the xmlrpc.php file, although you should be aware that this will also keep your site [...]
Published on January 31, 2008 at 12:22 am
On a WordPress IRC channel, Michael Adams of Automattic posted this this screenshot of the new design for the new WordPress Dashboard. The Dashboard is the first page you see when you log in to the WordPress administrative area.
As you can see, the Dashboard will be divided into blocks, and those blocks [...]
Published on January 26, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Yesterday I mentioned that WordPress was the most-used content management system among Technorati’s top 100 bloggers, and I wondered what versions of WordPress they were using.
As it happens, discovering the WordPress version is fairly simple most of the time, so I wrote a Perl robot to gather that information from the top 100 Technorati bloggers. [...]
Published on January 25, 2008 at 10:19 am
According to Technorati, more of the top one hundred linked-to blogs use WordPress than any other CMS. Specifically, 34% of those most popular blogs use WordPress, compared to Movable Type’s 16%.
Most WordPress themes announce their version number in the page’s meta tags. Since I’m sure Technorati has the data, it would be really [...]