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WordPress 3.0, which feels like it’s been a long time in the making (though it’s only been about 6 months) is finally out! There are lots of new features in 3.0, including: WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress install

One of our servers, called Swanky, will be undergoing some upgrades starting at 1am EST on Sunday, May 23. The server will be offline for 3-6 hours while these upgrades are taking place. The upgrades will add more processing power to the server which will help increase it’s speed and performance tim

Late on Friday they finally released WordPress 2.9. Have you upgraded yet? Most people should be able to do it with the click on a button at this point, but if not you can download it here. If you haven’t upgraded yet, here are some of the new features you’ll have when you do: Built-in [...]

There is a worm that has been making it’s way around since yesterday that is attacking WordPress blogs with older versions. If you haven’t upgraded to the current version, please do so right now. Otherwise there is a very high chance your blog will be compromised and it’s much harder to clean up a h

From the Dev Blog: WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site. Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s ad

An update for WordPress 2.8 has been released that fixes a bunch of bugs including: Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change. Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of m

A problem with our billing software since mid-June up until today has been sending out erroneous invoices and notices. This includes things like duplicate invoices or overdue/soon due notices on accounts already paid. We fixed the issue today so this won’t be happening any more. A bunch of emails we

The newest version of WordPress dropped late in the day yesterday. 2.7 was a very big release, completely changing the admin area and adding lots of new features but 2.8 seems to be more about taking all that new stuff and making improvements to it. They’ve also added a few new features that they pr

WordPress 2.7.1 was released late in the day yesterday. It’s a maintenance release as opposed to a security release, so you don’t need to rush to upgrade, but it does fix 68 bugs, which is always a good thing. Assuming you’ve already upgraded to 2.7 (if not, why haven’t you?) all you need to do [...