Comments on: Still on 1.5.2 ?

By: Thank You Fellow Bloggers Meme — Brendan McPhillips

Thank You Fellow Bloggers Meme — Brendan McPhillips — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:38:37 +0000

[...] CSS and other Wordpress stuff (of which I was clueless); Podz. Here is his WordPress Guide and his blog. One of the invaluable things that Podz taught me was to download the WebDeveloper toolbar in [...]

By: Thank You Fellow Bloggers Meme! at Brendan McPhillips.com

Thank You Fellow Bloggers Meme! at Brendan McPhillips.com — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:38:58 +0000

[...] Reading these three blogs lead to starting my own blog using Wordpress. A big thank you goes to Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren and all the developers who created and maintain this excellent, FREE, blog software program. If youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re new to Wordpress there is an excellent support system of bloggers who contribute to the extensive Codex and who patiently answer questions on the Support Forum. But when I was first learning I stumbled upon a person that really helped me with the basics of CSS and other Wordpress stuff (of which I was clueless); Mark. Here is his WordPress Guide and his blog. One of the invaluable things that Mark taught me was to download the WebDeveloper toolbar in Firefox to directly tinker with and edit the CSS. Thank you Matt, Ryan, all at Wordpress and Mark! After a long search I decided to use the great K2 Wordpress theme created by Michael Heilemann and Chris J. Davis. It is clean, flexible and easy to use (although if anyone can tell me why my trackback narrative doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t show upÃ¢â‚¬Â¦). As with Wordpress, the K2 theme as a lot of people who support and answer newbie questions at this forum. For me one person who has really helped me with K2 is Paul Stamatiou. A perfect example of his great articles supporting K2 is the first in a series called Customizing K2. Thanks Michael, Chris and Paul and all the K2 community! [...]

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:13:58 +0000

Aye, definately will be keeping an eye out for it! Once I’ve plucked up the courage to update it (after backups of course) I’ll get it sorted :-)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:04:53 +0000

Terry - you have an important blog though, You need to stay on top of this stuff !

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:03:14 +0000

awww feck, went up to 2.0.1 two weeks ago… arse!!!

By: CountZero

CountZero — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:47:58 +0000

uuuh - due to the comments here and due to the information, that the wordpress 2.0 theme competition site by KCYap that running wp 2.0 has been hacked just two days ago, I sniffed a little in the WP sources, and even in the 2.1alpha nightly from the last weekend is the same loophole still contained that allows SQL injection under certain circumstances. it is TOO easy to hack a blog this way…. scary….

By: If..Else Log

If..Else Log — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:55:32 +0000

WP 1.52 vulnerability

The news I was eluding to earlier today was that a new vulnerability to WP1.52 has been disclosed.The issue affects WP versions 2.0x and below

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By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:40:24 +0000

There is a fix from drdave being tested now.

It’s the fact that at least ONE exploit was known when I asked very specifically if 1.5.2 was secure. I was told it was.

By: Vidar

Vidar — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:38:07 +0000

zomg take 2!

By: Gregory

Gregory — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:56:22 +0000

I’m sympathetic to the keeping quiet point - because the last thing you want to do is spread how to break ppls blogs.

However it should have been fixed the moment it was found if they were going to do that. They didn’t.

I don’t mind v2 because it’s slightly faster peforming on my site, and has a better plugin API, but I agree that the admin is bloated. It’s also a lot, lot harder to change the UI of the v2 admin because of the copious ammounts of JS.

I happen to think WP is the best thing out there atm for roll-your-own blogging, but it’s starting to get really, really, crufty.. which is wierd concidering Matt’s usual stance of cruft..