An new WordPress 2.8.3 has been released. This is a security fix release so it’s highly recommended that you upgrade to 2.8.3. It basically fixes some of the other privilege escalation issues of WordPress version 2.8.1. Should be an easy upgrade for everyone using version 2.8.2, just click on Tools | Upgrade from your WordPress admin.
I have uploaded my newest version of the Web Directory WordPress plugin here at Code Stuff and also at WordPress.org. I’ve added a new feature on version 2.6.1 to allow users of the plugin to remove the display of the “Websites/Blogs Under” prefix when displaying the header title for Link Categories. I’ve also tested it for WordPress version 2.8.2.
You can download version 2.6.1 from the Web Directory WordPress plugin project page.
The WordPress Development team has released WordPress version 2.8.2. The new version fixes an XSS vulnerability in comment author URLs which were not being fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. An exploit is possible to redirect the logged in account to another URL from from the WordPress administration page.
It is adviced that an upgrade to version 2.8.2 is performed. You can do the upgrade either by using the WordPress upgrade tool found at Tools->Upgrade of your blog’s admin or Download WordPress 2.8.2 to perform a manual upgrade of your WordPress site.
I’ve missed last year’s WordCamp PH and I am not about to miss out this year so I just registered to attend it this 2009. If you’re a WordPress blogger in the Philippines, here’s your chance to meet them. I hope to meet you there also. Although the agenda has not been set at the moment on what topics will be presented, I think attending alone is all worth the WordCamp.
This 2009, WordCamp in the Philippines will happen on 19 September 2009 (Saturday) at Asian Institute of Management in Makati City. Early bird registration is still open at Php 500.00 (or USD 12.00) per person. That is inclusive of lunch & freebies don’t you think that isn’t still worth it?
Go register and magkita tayo sa WordCamp PH 2009!
Once I got started to using the plugin, it didn’t take long to find it very useful especially if you need to create more than a single form for more than one WordPress blog. But I was not being too keen on the idea of having to key in those forms too many times I decided to create a WordPress plugin for backing up and restoring the Contact Form 7 form data. It will allow me to transfer the forms data from one site to another without having to retype them. 
I thought I’d share it to whoever might need it so here I am writing this post about the Contact Form 7 Backup and Restore plugin that I have created. It’s actually on it’s initial usable version so don’t expect any bells and whistles for this ‘coz I just needed to transfer what I did for one blog to another and start making changes for that blog from the restored data.
I’ve just read that Palm’s Mojo SDK, the software development kit for it’s Palm Pre mobile phone, is now available for download. You can read the details at Connected Phone. To create software applications on the Palm webOS is probably not any different than creating your web applications since it uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
As an aside, do you know that the core of the webOS runs on Linux, an open sourced operating system? Also do you know that the developer site of Palm’s webOS uses Joomla while the developer blog uses WordPress — just some trivia facts for you.
If you’ve started a WordPress blog, probably one of the first things that would be on your list is creating a contact form so that readers would be able to interact with you. I’ve used a number of Contact Form WordPress plugins for sites I have created.
Recently, I decided to try out the WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin created by Takayuki Miyoshi. The features are flexible and simple. It allows you to create multiple contact forms for different purposes. It has support for Akismet spam filtering and captcha.
When I read the article about the upcoming WordPress 2.9 media features, I got excited that it’s now the next thing on the WordPress dev list. It’s one of those things that I feel strongly about when it comes to WordPress. The ability to easily extend WordPress is one of its strengths. It has also grown to being a robust framework/platform for online publishing. Actually it’s more than that, you’d be surprised at how people use it to create code stuff based on it. A pretty good example would be Alex Rabe’s NextGen Photo Gallery plugin.
I’ve now uploaded the Web Directory WordPress plugin at the WordPress.org plugin repository. You can now also download it from from its WordPress.org page. If you have questions on using it, just use the Code Stuff contact page or post a comment at the Web Directory WordPress plugin project page.
A v1.0.1 update to the recently released v1.0 of bbPress, an open source forum software created with simplicity and speed in mind, has just been released. The update fixes a user registration issue that allows the use of a single email address by multiple users.
You can download the updated version of bbPress from the here.
