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WordPress has released a new version to WordPress 3.1.x series by bringing out version 3.1.4. WordPress 3.1.4 is a security and maintenance update for all the previous version. This release fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the site. You can upgrade to the latest WordPress version [...]

If you run a website or a blog on a self-hosted WordPress setup, you can now install the Google Site Verification Plugin and get your site verified easily in the Google Webmaster. This plugin automates the site verification process set by Google. This plugin can be installed directly from the “Install Plugins” control panel in [...]

WordPress has released a new upgrade to the its WordPress 3.1 branch with the version number WordPress 3.1.1. The latest release is a security update and contains following important changes Some security hardening to media uploads Performance improvements Fixes for IIS6 support Fixes for taxonomy and PATHINFO (/index.php/) permalinks Fixes ...

Automattic has released WordPress 3.0.5 which can be summed up as a security and stability release. Fix XSS bug: Properly encode title used in Quick/Bulk Edit, and offer additional sanitization to various fields. Affects users of the Author or Contributor role. Fix XSS bug: Preserve tag escaping in the tags meta box. Affects users of [...]

If you have a website or a blog which runs on WordPress, its time you get it upgraded to the latest production release WordPress 3.0.4. The latest version of the software fixes a core security bug in WordPress’ HTML sanitation library, called KSES.This bug could have allowed a XSS attack on a wordpress installation. The [...]

If you run your blog or website on WordPress, you have a better way of embedding actual twitter tweets. This can be done through the Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin. Following are the features offered by Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress plugin. TinyMCE editor button to easily search and embed a tweet Support for the built-in [...]

So you have a blog (on wordpress.com) which has been doing pretty well, and now you are thinking of moving to a self hosted blog. While setting up a new self hosted blog is not that tough, what really takes time and thought process is the impact on SEO rankings of the already present content. [...]