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What’s In Store With WP 3.0
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 [...]
Why I Use VBulletin
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 [...]
Supported Legacy Branches For WordPress.org?
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 also [...]
Ideas To Improve The WordPress Release Strategy
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 [...]
Do You Think WordPress Is Secure?
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.
Security This, Security That
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 [...]
What Is WordPress Bloat?
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 [...]
The Bittersweet Taste Of Bleeding Edge Software
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 is [...]