vBulletin Tagging

Some plugins are causing grief for those upgrading to 2.8.

HyperDB needs to be updated to the latest version, otherwise tags won’t save.
DB Cache also prevents tags from being saved. I haven’t seen an update for it yet.
Plugins that load old versions of jQuery for all admin pages will break all kinds of stuff.  Plugins should use the version of jQuery that ships with WP.  If a plugin must use a particular version of jQuery, that version should be queued only for the plugin’s own pages.
Themes that call get_categories() from functions.php before the init action fires will fail. …

WP’s automatic upgrade can be used to automatically upgrade to betas and nightly builds for the development branch or the latest stable branch.  To get onto a development upgrade path you must first make a small change to wp-includes/version.php.

The current release of WP is 2.8.  If you peek in the version.php file, you will see this:

$wp_version = ‘2.8′;

If you would like to try out the latest development builds for the upcoming 2.8.1 release, change that line to this:

$wp_version = ‘2.8.1-dev’;

“dev” can be any string. The presence of a suffix on the version tells the automatic upgrade to put you on…

This weekend will go down in history. It’s the first time I’ve been seriously sick in well over 5 years. A bug infected my son on Wednesday, but he got over it quickly enough. Then the same bug hit my wife and I on Sunday morning and we’re just getting over it now.

Odd that a worm attacks software I work on and I get very sick at the same time. Unfortunately I couldn’t run an exploit scanner and remove the bug but my body’s defenses took care of the bugs eventually.

All this leads me to a handy little plugin called…

RSSCloud support has been enabled on all WordPress.com blogs. If you are running a WordPress.org powered blog you can do the same thing with the RSSCloud plugin.

So what does this really mean?

From the point of view of WordPress and this plugin there are three main additions:

Adds the <cloud> element to your RSS2 feed (more details here and here) which tells clients where and how to sign up for notification requests.
Registers a URL handler with WordPress to process the notification signups.
Sends out notification updates when a new post is published.

The cloud element looks like this:

<cloud domain=’josephscott.org’ port=’80′…

I have a role to write articles, someone else has a role to look over it and edit and deem as feasible for reading, but what does the role I have mean?

Meta: Words or phrases marked in italic will be explained in future posts.

You have a role of doing something wherever you are at or at whichever position you are, those roles are pre-defined and involve certain things that you can do and cannot do, some times we do break rules, however with software we usually cannot.

Likewise with WordPress there are some roles that are pre-defined and have certain capabilities that you…

RSS Cloud support has been turned on for WordPress.com and you can download a plugin for WordPress.org. Both are first iterations and will continue to be improved over the next few weeks, and I’ll be at the RSS Cloud meetup on Wednesday.

New Plugins

Post Videos and Photo Galleries

Post videos and photo galleries plugin is a professional tool for webmasters and bloggers to add streaming videos, image galleries and music playlists to their site, it includes uploading, transcoding/resizing, a selection of players and media hosting on a dedicatedstreaming servers at cincopa.com.

BuddyPress Author Exposed

Display metadata about post author: name, email, website, and BuddyPress profile.

Post Views Dashboard

Post Views Summary is a dashboard plugin that shows the 10 most and least visited posts and pages. (Page in German)

User Messages

A plugin to facilitate communication between your users.

HTML Page Sitemap

Adds an HTML (Not XML) sitemap of your…

A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.

Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before it, is clever: it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you…

Sol

Sol is a fixed-width, two column Thematic child theme with a focus on attractive and clear typography. It is fully widgetised and plugin ready

FabricPress

Two column, widget ready theme available in three color schemes

Just Grey

3-column flexible-width theme in gray and blue. Featuring an Author Info page and gravatars along with Custom Archives, Sitemap and Full-Width No Sidebars page templates. There is an options page for setting the text in the Info Text Box.

Are you a theme author? Submit your theme to get listed in these releases.

The vBSEO team is proud to announce its latest release!

Don’t miss out on the 72 hr vBSEO End of Summer Sale!

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vBSEO End of Summer Sale Details

vBSEO 3.3.1 is now available in your Downloads area. 3.3.1 is primarily a maintenance release, but does include some new features as outlined below. This update is available for all non-expired licenses. [Check License Status]

Bug Fixes:
FIX: Invalid argument in functions_vbseo.php on some server instances
FIX: Virtual HTML breaks W3 validation
FIX: vBSEO Acronym expansion for Guests
FIX: Acronyms – Ajax edit
FIX: Missing 301 redirect for member profiles applied
FIX: Social Groups – Discussion title caused invalid…

Old WordPress Versions Under Attack: Older version of WordPress are being attacked and characters are being added to the permalinks. Sure signs of the attack include strange characters in your permalinks (single posts do not work) and an extra administrator account in the users control panel which you cannot see. Look for the administrator count in brackets at the top. Is the number there what you would expect on your blog?

Please upgrade your WordPress blog to the latest version ASAP. Our own PluginBlog was vulnerable and was compromised (shame on me for not having upgraded from a really old version).…

vBSEO End Of Summer Sale, Tweet-enable your website!
For the next 72 Hours ONLY, vBSEO will be holding a special end of summer sale event.

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This sale is flat 15% through the full 72 hours. There are no laddered or time-based discounts like we had in our last sale. But, it only lasts for 72 hours, ending at the end of Labor Day, Monday night. After that, it is done.…

Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an “attack” on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!!

Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue is.

Things You Need to Know Now

Here is what you need to know right now, constantly updated with news as we get it.

UPDATE NOW! Reports are that this attack impacts ALL versions of WordPress up to 2.8.3 and 2.8.4, the most recent release.
Report from WordPress…

New Plugins

Appointment Scheduler – Appointy Plugin

Appointment Scheduler – Appointy plugin allows you to accept appointments from your clients 24×7×365 directly on your wordpress powered websites. It has a powerful yet simple Ajax interface which allows one click booking. With just one click your clients can see your availability in the entire month.

Formatted post

This plugin is for the users who need to post with fixed format regularly

BNS Corner Logo

Widget to display a logo; or, used as a plugin displays image fixed in one of the four corners.

Delete Duplicate Posts

Easy way to delete duplicate posts on your WordPress blog.

Updated Plugins

YouTube…

This Plugin Send All private Message Via Mail to An Email Address Like As Bb.
Good for Monitor Your Users Messages to Block Stealers …. :D

Install :

1 ) Upload mail_pms.xml AS Product
2 ) Go To Vbulletin Settings -> Mail Pms Options
3 ) Set Product On
4 ) Insert An Email Address To Send Messages To It (Reception)
5 ) Enjoy :up:

[url="http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showth ........

[b]For the full text, visit vBulletin.org[/b]

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