WordPress.com Outage / 10.2 million blogs down

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 19, 2010
Yesterday, about 10.2 MILLION blogs fell off the face of the planet for just Under 2 hours when WordPress.com experienced it’s first major outage in four years.  In all, about 5.5 million pageviews lost in those 110 minutes of downtime. According to Matt Mullenweg, the downtime was caused by an unscheduled “core router” change at [...]
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WordPress 2.9.2 Security Upgrade

Written by geekE Management | Published on February 15, 2010
This one seems rather minor, but could be an issue for some sites.  WordPress 2.9.2 fixes a problem with registered users being able to “peek” into your trash.  Nothing I’ll be getting my panties bunched up over, but since the upgrade process is like 2 clicks and a password, just do it!
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WordPress 2.9.1 released – Bunch of bug fixes!

Written by geekE Management | Published on January 4, 2010
Hey all — New version of WordPress has been released.  Just about three weeks after the release of WordPress 2.9, version 2.9.1 hits the street with several bug fixes. Many believed that the release of 2.9 was a bit premature after tons of users reported issues related to CURL (curl_setopt() to be specific) and several [...]
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WordPress 2.9 Released

Written by geekE Management | Published on December 19, 2009
WordPress 2.9 has been in the works for a while now, and in beta for a couple months.  I’m happy to announce that it has been officially released! Some notable new features: Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., [...]
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WordPress 2.8.5 Update

Written by geekE Management | Published on October 21, 2009
The fine folks over at WordPress just released what they’re calling a “hardening” upgrade.  Version 2.8.5 doesn’t have any new features, just some code improvements to make sure you’re WP site stays safe… As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have [...]
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WordPress 2.8.3 Released / Security Update

Written by Gil Rutkowski | Published on August 3, 2009
Seems a few things were missed back in the 2.8.1 security release, but 2.8.3 is supposed to fix all that. Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1.  Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs. Download the update or use the autoupdate feature to cure what ales your wordpress.
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Which is better? (or Joomla vs. WordPress)

Written by Gil Rutkowski | Published on July 24, 2009
I’ve worked with Open Source publishing software for the last decade or so, and it seems that every so often two packages get pretty powerful or popular and the debates begin.  Most recently it’s been Joomla and WordPress in the spotlight. First of all, I’m not going to do (in this post) an extremely in-depth [...]
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WordPress 2.8.2 fixes xss vulnerability

Written by geekE Management | Published on July 20, 2009
WordPress 2.8.2 has been released! WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.  Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.
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