Tweet I reached out to a write for the Rasmussen College website regarding some tips for staying on top of web design trends. One of my tips got used and it involved Google Alerts. Want to keep up to date with the latest on a topic without sifting through dozens of websites every day? Let Google do it for you! Set your Google Alerts to whatever topic you need to know about and get an email with all of the latest articles daily. You can check out the article here.
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Tweet If you were having some security issues with your WordPress blog or website, fear not. The newest version, WordPress 3.4.2 is now available for download and WP claims that they’ve fixed some security bugs. From their website: -Fix some issues with older browsers in the administration area. -Fix an issue where a theme may not preview correctly, or its screenshot may not be displayed. -Improve plugin compatibility with the visual editor. -Address pagination problems with some category permalink structures. -Avoid errors with both oEmbed providers and trackbacks. -Prevent improperly sized header images from being uploaded. If you use WordPress ...READ MORE...
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Tweet This is the kind of stuff we get excited about because we’re a bit nerdy at times. WordPress has just released the newest version of their popular content management system (CMS), WordPress 3.4 “Green.” Nicknamed after jazz master Grant Green, the new version has some neat new options. You can play with themes in real time before making them live, trick out your header and view the changes in real time, embed tweets easily and beautifully and much, much more. In short, there are enough new features to play with that we’re pretty excited to try them out. Some ...READ MORE...
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Tweet If you’re into using WordPress as a CMS and/or blogging platform, these are fun days. Days when a new version of the popular platform hits the streets. Or should I say, “shows up as an icon at the top of your dashboard.” We mentioned previously that WordPress version 3.3 was available for beta testers in October, well now it’s available to everyone. Some features that I’m already digging: -When you hover over an option on the left side of the dashboard, it automatically brings up the entire sub menu for that option. Doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but ...READ MORE...
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Tweet People who use the WordPress blogging platform have been complaining for years that WordPress hosting doesn’t allow you to have ads on your blog. Now, if you got your own hosting, you can do whatever you want. But if you’re hosted on WordPress, you can’t have ads. But, that is be changing. WordPress has partnered with Federated Media to allow blogs to have PPC advertisements on them. You still have to meet preset requirements, but the fact that you’ll be able to have ads at all is a big step. Jon Burke, from WordPress, explains it on his blog: ...READ MORE...
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Tweet WordPress has announced on their blog that version 3.3 of the popular CMS is now available for beta testers. As they say in their post, this does not mean that you put this on a real website that you use. From their blog: As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it. If all ...READ MORE...
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Tweet Tons of people have already downloaded WordPress 3.2, but now there is more fun to be had (not really). The people at WordPress.org have announced that an update has been released, and it’s shockingly called version 3.2.1. After more than a million downloads of WordPress 3.2, we’re now releasing WordPress 3.2.1 into the wild. This maintenance release fixes a server incompatibility related to JSON that’s unfortunately affected some of you, as well as a few other fixes in the new dashboard design and the Twenty Eleven theme. If you’ve already updated to 3.2, then this update will be even ...READ MORE...
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Tweet If you are a WordPress user, then you need to log into your account and upgrade to the newest version of the CMS. That’s right, WP 3.1.3 has been released. Here are the juicy details straight from WordPress.org: Various security hardening by Alexander Concha. -Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky. -Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Props Verónica Valeros. -Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen of Microsoft, Jesse Ou of Microsoft, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research. – Improves file upload security on hosts with dangerous security settings. -Cleans up old WordPress import files if the ...READ MORE...
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Tweet Am I the only one that gets excited when new WordPress updates are released? Even when it’s something as simple as a security fix and doesn’t even offer cool new features? Yeah, I know, I’m a dork. But yeah, WordPress 3.1.2 has been released and yes, it’s security based. No new cool features for us. But it does fix the problem in 3.1.1 where apparently contributor-level users could post content. I can see how that’s a problem. Everyone is encouraged to make the update as soon as possible. So get on that.
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Tweet If you’re a WordPress user, you are probably already aware of this because when you refresh your dashboard a nice little yellow message comes up at the top telling you to upgrade. So yes, the upgrade for WordPress 3.1 is finally available, so go upgrade your system. WordPress 3.1.1 features some additional security fixes to plug some holes in 3.1. Here are the bullet points for the upgrade straight from WordPress’s mouth: * Some security hardening to media uploads * Performance improvements * Fixes for IIS6 support * Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks * Fixes for various ...READ MORE...
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