WordPress, one of the best blog platform, has released WordPress 2.8.5, on the way to WordPress 2.9 that still under development. The point from this upgrading version is security hardening changes, as Peter Westwood said on WordPress.Org blog.
Here is the list of headline changes:
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
WordPress also recommend user to use WordPress Exploit Scanner, plugin that scan wordpress blog and it will asked you to cleare out all traces of recent exploits.
But, as far as i know, until now WordPress didn’t send any notification for WordPress.com blogs; “Upgrade” alert only comes up on WordPress.org blog dahsboard.
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There is a new ‘awesome’ feature for WordPress blogs.
Start from now you dont have to worry about copyright of grabbing pictures from another resource if you grab from PicApp.Com.
However, this feature actually is not only for WordPress, because although yours is not wordpress, you can grab from PicApp as well. But, there is some ‘shortcut’ to apply picture tag from PicApp directly to you WordPress editor by adding shortcode instead of html tag.
As posted on PicApp Support, these premium images is not totally free.
…but the way these photographers and agencies get compensated is when a visitor to your blog clicks on the related images ( those thumbnails images at the bottom of the photo ), the subsequent pages that are loaded on picapp.com display a couple of ads, and that advertising revenue pays the photographers who took these images. Your visitors can click the small arrow on the right to hide the related images.
Here are the steps:
- Go to PicApp.Com and search image by typing keyword and press button.
- Choose one of picture from gallery, click on it.
- Choose your code. If yours on WordPress.com, better to choose ShortCode, for example rather than HTML image code.
- Paste that code to your editor.
- That’s it!
So, forget about grabbing pictures from another resources with ‘funny’ copyright stamp on their collections; feel free to grab from PicApp.
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After a long battle against pancreatic cancer, finally Actor who played as Sam Wheat in 1990 romantic drama movie, Ghost, Patrick Swayze dies at 57. That’s entertainment big lost after Farrah Fawcett and of course, Michael Jackson, i think.
I really interested in how many links/pages that created from “web 2.0 media” just in about five hours after his death.
Using Specific Data Range from Google Search Result (qdr:d24 or qdr:d), here is the list (created at 3:46pm Tuesday (EST)):
- about 38.200 from twitter.com
- about 36.900 from blogspot.com
- about 16,200 from wordpress.com
- about 9230 from facebook.com
- about 7120 from youtube.com
- about 968 from digg.com
- about 93 from myspace.com
- about 82 from flickr.com
- about 61 from tumblr.com
- about 11 from plurk.com
- about 0 from friendster.com <— errrrr.. friendster? what eh?
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Credit Photo: from here.
Categories: Daily IT
Tags: blogspot, digg, facebook, friendster, myspace, pancreatic cancer, patrick swayze, plurk, tumblr, twitter, web 2.0, wordpress, youtube
Using iframe HTML tag, now you can embed your report, ebook even curricullum vitae, as long as in PDF format, through GoogleDoc feature. Good thing is, you dont have to host your PDF files on GoogleDocs (from wherever it hosted as long as online) nor you have Google account to access GoogleDocs.
Bad thing is, due to security concerns, i can’t give you example of using this awesome feature because in WordPress.com ‘iframes’ are all stripped :)
I hope, next time, WordPress.com can give ‘access’ to iframe so that this PDF viewer can embedded here. *Hi, Matt!*
Here is an example:
Just grab this code in your text editor, save as HTML and open it from your web browser.
<iframe src=”http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://blogxygen.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/blogxygen.pdf&embedded=true” style=”width:500px; height:500px;” frameborder=”0″></iframe>
Replace my demo PDF with yours, adjust width and height and added css style inside and published on yours.
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WordPress.com (and .org as well) added new feature, AftertheDeadline on wp Visual Editor blogs and it’s sooo great!
This feature will check your ‘grammar and style’ before published and can be activated from your Visual Editor by clicking “ABC” button with green check sign on toolbar.
Once you press the bar, AftertheDeadline will give you suggestion word(s) or phrase(s) in every ‘error’ that found.
For further information, you can check Matt’s article and video about how to use and set AftertheDeadline on your WordPress blog.
Updated info:
Automattic has acquired After the Deadline since July 09, and together, Raphael (AtD) and Matt (WP) will extend features to another languages very soon!
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