WordPress Wednesday News: Which Bookmarklet, WordPress 2.5.1 Mandatory Upgrade, WordPress Plugin Contest, WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, and WordPress Mugs
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Which bookmarklet do you use to post to your WordPress blog? WordPress 2.5.1 is a mandatory upgrade with security patches. Are you ready for WordPress 2008 in San Francisco in August? Weblog Tools Collection hosts a WordPress Plugins contest this month. Get your WordPress Secret Key to secure your WordPress blog. Greasemonkey doesn’t automatically upgrade, so manually upgrade to continue using Auntie Akismet and Comment Ninja Greasemonkey Scripts for WordPress. Discounts for WordPress fans to Event Apart events. Get your WordPress mug now! And more WordPress news. WordPress News [1]How Do You Post via Bookmarklet to Your WordPress Blog? Matt Mullenweg asks what is your favorite posting bookmarklet [2] on his blog as an informal poll to determine how people post to their WordPress blog and how WordPress can help them do that more efficiently. WordPress 2.5.1 Mandatory Security Release: WordPress 2.5.1 [3] was released earlier this week and is a mandatory security release. It includes bug fixes, performance enhancements, along with the security fix. The corrected files are wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php and wp-admin/media.php, if you want to just replace the changed files. Theme Lab offers [4] a simple upgrade guide for this upgrade. Included in the upgrade are fixes to Internet Explorer issues with the new Media Library. WordPress 2.5 Secret Key: WordPress 2.5 now makes cookies more secure and protected from attacks [5] with a new user-definable constant called SECRET_KEY. Ryan Boren talks more about this issue [6] in depth, and you can get your unique secret key [7] for your WordPress 2.5x blog to improve your blog’s security. WordPress Plugin Competition: Weblog Tools Collection has announced a new WordPress Plugin Competition [8] specifically for WordPress 2.5. It will begin May 10 and end July 10, giving us 30 days of non-stop fabulous Plugins! (more…) [9] [1] http://www.wordpress.org/ [2] http://ma.tt/2008/05/favorite-posting-bookmarklet/ [3] http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/ [4] http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/26/upgrading-wordpress-is-easier-than-you-think/ [5] http://boren.nu/archives/2008/04/24/cookie-security-in-wordpress-25/ [6] http://boren.nu/archives/2008/04/24/cookie-security-in-wordpress-25/ [7] http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.0/ [8] http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/30/announcing-wordpress-plugin-competition-25/ [9] http://www.blogherald.com/2008/05/07/wordpress-wednesday-news-which-bookmarklet-wordpress-251-mandatory-upgrade-wordpress-plugin-contest-wordcamp-2008-in-san-francisco-and-wordpress-mugs/#more-7068
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