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Get 3.0 While It’s Hot

Get 3.0 While It’s Hot

By Jeffro on June 17, 2010

Today is the day many within the WordPress community have been waiting for. The release of WordPress 3.0. The new release contains menu management, a new default theme, custom post types and taxonomies, bulk upgrader, multi-site capabilities and more. Michael Pick produced a short video summary of the new features in 3.0 that is worth [...]

Posted in WordPress-org | Tagged 3.0, otto, release, software, wordpress | 4 Responses

Does Not Get Much Simpler Than This

WordPress Is 7 and I’m 27

By Jeffro on May 27, 2010

Today, WordPress turns 7 years old. I’ve been using WordPress since 2007 which is only a few years ago. I always enjoy hearing the stories from those who were on board with WordPress since the day it was created by a fork of b2. I suppose those folks can be called the ancestors of WordPress. [...]

Posted in News | Tagged birthday, software, wordpress | 2 Responses

What’s In Store With WP 3.0

What’s In Store With WP 3.0

By Jeffro on February 25, 2010

WPBeginner has a great writeup of what we can look forward to in WordPress 3.0. Of course there is the merge of WordPress MU into WordPress, the awesome Woo Navigation menus, a new default theme, and custom post types just to name a few. WordPress 3.0 has a tentative release date in early May but [...]

Posted in News | Tagged 30, features, software, wordpress | 5 Responses

Why I Use VBulletin

Why I Use VBulletin

By Jeffro on December 31, 2009

I’m often asked the question, why do you use VBulletin? When WPTavern was under construction, I had the chance to try out a few different pieces of forum software. During my experiments, I used PHPbb3, SimplePress, and I think I gave bbPress a look through as well. At the time, PHPbb3 didn’t have syndication built-in [...]

| Tagged bbPress, community, forum, software, vbulletin | 9 Responses

Supported Legacy Branches For WordPress.org?

Supported Legacy Branches For WordPress.org?

By Jeffro on September 23, 2009

This is a guest blog post written by Randy Hoyt, author of the blog, RandyHoyt.com. He’s also the founder of Web development firm Amesbury Web. The recent attacks on older versions of WordPress have made security a hot topic in the community. There has been finger-pointing and mud-slinging from many different directions, but there has [...]

Posted in WordPress-org | Tagged releases, security, software, upgrades, wordpress | 12 Responses

Ideas To Improve The WordPress Release Strategy

Ideas To Improve The WordPress Release Strategy

By Jeffro on September 15, 2009

Much has been said in recent weeks regarding WordPress upgrades, security, and responsibility. While I still think end users are the ones responsible for what happens regarding their WordPress powered site, I do think there are areas of improvement that the WordPress team should consider. The following is a list of some of my own [...]

Posted in WordPress-org | Tagged releases, security, software, wordpress | 8 Responses

Do You Think WordPress Is Secure?

Do You Think WordPress Is Secure?

By Jeffro on September 8, 2009

Considering all of the security talk of the past week, I figured the poll question ought to deal with the subject. Plain and simple, do you think WordPress is secure? Let’s talk about it.

Posted in Polls | Tagged security, software, wordpress | 17 Responses

Security This, Security That

Security This, Security That

By Jeffro on September 6, 2009

Over the weekend, news quickly spread throughout the WordPress community of a worm that was taking advantage of older versions of WordPress. I found out about the problem through Lorelle’s twitter account where she linked to an article on her blog covering the details of the attack. Mark Ghosh of WeblogToolsCollection.com quickly followed up with [...]

Posted in WordPress-org | Tagged security, software, wordpress | 29 Responses

What Is WordPress Bloat?

What Is WordPress Bloat?

By Jeffro on February 7, 2009

Keeping an eye on the WordPress Hackers mailing list of late, I noticed a discussion where the word bloat was used numerous times. Out of my own curiosity, I decided to ask those on the list what the definition of bloat was. The answers were not surprising. Everything from items that are added to core [...]

Posted in WordPress-org | Tagged bloat, development, software, wordpress | 4 Responses

The Bittersweet Taste Of Bleeding Edge Software

The Bittersweet Taste Of Bleeding Edge Software

By Jeffro on January 28, 2009

The following guest post was written by Brad Williams of WebDevStudios.com I’ve been developing with WordPress for a few years now and the projects I’ve been working on have started to expand into bleeding edge software. Bleeding edge software is defined as “technology that is so new (and thus, presumably, not perfected) that the user [...]

Posted in WordPress-org | Tagged alpha, beta, bleedingedge, software | 6 Responses

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