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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…

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…

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…

Stats – Stats – Stats.  They can drive everything for your WordPress site.  They can help you understand how visitors move around your site; how they got there in the first place; what are the most popular posts they are visiting; what browser and OS they are using. The list can go on and on.

I have spent a lot of time over the last few months looking for just the right plug-in to track stats on my WindowsObserver.com website and I think I may have hit the mother lode with my most recent discovery.

CyStats is written by Michael Weingaertner and…

Hi,the last ~2 hours phpbb.com showed an error message about too many connections made to the database. We apologise for this downtime, it was caused by locked threads from another sites database hosted on the same database server as phpbb.com.Thanks,Meik.

I’m please to let you know that we have successfully moved to a new server.

After 2 happy years with PowerVPS I decided to move vB Styles to ServInt

Reliable network , newer server and more ram should make the site zippier for everyone

Let me know how you find the new server.

Take care,
Miko

There’s a new WordPress cache plugin in town, and it’s called W3 Total Cache. This plugin is one of the contestants in the 2009 Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition.

The W3 Total Cache plugin (W3TC for short) is an advanced cache plugin, and you can only have one of those on your site at once. So if you’re currently using WP Super Cache, you’ll have to disable that first before enabling W3TC. [side note: I tried to find a good link for information about the advanced-cache functionality, but I came up empty. we need a Codex page for that]

If you’ve used…

I’ve managed to scrape up some defines/constants for use in vBulletin’s config file (config.php)

This forces all userinfo queries to include avatar information.
define(’AVATAR_ON_NAVBAR’, 1);

This bypasses the file checks, e.g that install.php one you get after installation. This is potential security risk, shouldn’t be enabled in production.
define(’BYPASS_FILE_CHECK’, 1);

This defines whether vBulletin is in demo mode or not.
define(’DEMO_MODE’, 1);

Our famous saviour for when modifications go bad…. thank you hooks
define(’DISABLE_HOOKS’, 1);

This forces all the hooks to be used, however, the above overrides this.
define(’FORCE_HOOKS’, 1);

This disables mail being sent out from your server.
define(’DISABLE_MAIL’, 1);

Sends pasword as raw…

Here is a tip for any one who is having trouble with the Suhosin module in vbulletin. It was bugging me for a long time. I have it originally posted HERE in my admin blog for my website.

I was getting the following errors:

* When trying to update the CSS of my style

Quote:

Required variables have gone missing and execution can not continue. Please try again.

This error can sometimes occur as a result of Suhosin / Hardened PHP being installed on your server. If you know that you have Suhosin running and you have access to the…

My Google Summer of Code 2009 student, Justin Shreve, has done an excellent job creating a new search API for WordPress. We hope this API will be integrated into the WordPress core because it would simplify replacing the core search functionality and encourage developers to create many more options for searching blogs.

Justin’s Search plugin is actually a package of three plugins. The first plugin installs the API that lets other plugins do the searching. The other two plugins use the API to provide search systems that we think will please most users who are dissatisfied with the built-in WordPress search results:…

New Plugins

WP Less

LESS adds variables, mixins, inheritance and a lot of usefull functions to speed up, organize and improve CSS productivity. It detects all LESS stylesheets and compile them on the fly, considering cache and last modified time of the *.less files.

PictoBrowser

It can show Picasa and Flickr galleries with the help of PictoBrowser in WordPress.

Merge Tags

A simple plugin that lets you combine tags (and other post terms).

UnAsked

The plugin allows your users to ask / answer questions on your site.

Updated Plugins

GD Press Tools

GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance and security related tools. This tools…

Security Update for IP.Board 3.0.2
It has come to our attention that there are two potential SQL injection vulnerabilities present in IP.Board 3.0 which can be taken advantage of via careful URL crafting.

Resolution
The attached zip contains two files which fix the issue. The files are for IP.Board version 3.0.2 only. Those still running 3.0.0 or 3.0.1 will need to upgrade to 3.0.2 as soon as possible.

The main 3.0.2 download zip was updated at 10:15 am EST August 18, 2009. If you download 3.0.2 after this time: your files are already updated.

Simply download the attached zip file and upload…

Remember Gravatar? That service Automattic acquired back on October 18th, 2007. It’s nearing two years since the acquisition and I don’t know about you but, I don’t feel as though Gravatar has gone mainstream. Just as a refresher course, the idea behind Gravatar is to host a globally-recognized avatar that is tied to an email address. This means that using your Gravatar is as simple as using the same email address to sign up to supported services/software that you used on Gravatar.com.

Same Idea Exists Today From 2004

Doing a bit of history, Gravatar has been around since at least 2004. At…

New Plugins

Post Event

You often ask how could you create event using wordpress, organize jobs meeting, party or holidays with your friends and contact them easily ? Then “Post Event” is THE events plugin for wordpress you are looking for!

WP-IRC Plugin

WP-IRC Plugin can fetch the number of users online in any IRC channel and can be scheduled to auto refresh it every x.minutes. The count thus fetched can be displayed in the sidebar of your blog using a sidebar widget provided by the Plugin.

Easy Translator

Easy Translator is a plugin to translate other plugins.Plugin authors who want to clean up their…

I’m pleased to announce that version 1.1 of Analytics360°, a great WordPress plugin from MailChimp that provides awesome Google and MailChimp analytics data and visualizations in your WordPress admin, is now available.

Download it here

This release addresses a handful of issues that were reported in version 1.0, and has been well received in testing on the Google Group. Hopefully the revisions in version 1.1 will make the plugin compatible with most server configurations.

If you do have problems, the best places to go for answers are:

The Analytics360° Google Group
WordPress HelpCenter, (512) 788-9236

My thanks to the MailChimp team who have been…