Monthly Archives: September 2008

Help shape WordPress 2.7

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Owen

From the WordPress Blog: Another round of mini-mockups and multiple choice questions awaits the first 5000 respondents. WordPress 2.7 UI Survey #2 is now available to take your opinions regarding: Where to put the search box Where to put the … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.6.1 Exploit: Upgrade to avoid hack

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Owen

I was reading around today after cleaning up a website that got hacked when I saw an example of a vulnerability that exists in WordPress 2.6.1 The security hole is this: Imagine a blog site using wordpress 2.6.1 and its … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.7 coming down the tubes

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Owen

Can’t wait for some of them I’ve just come across a list of new features planned for WordPress 2.7 on Ryan Boren’s blog. Looks really exciting. Here’s what he lists: New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.6.2 released

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Owen

There’s been a new drop of WordPress which addresses some security issues and a couple of bugs. Here the write up from the development blog: Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness … Continue reading →

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Yoga: Liberated – No pesky encrypted sections

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Owen

I’ve just finished liberating another WordPress theme. yoga-liberated is the theme and this was a particularly pesky one. It’s not that the encryption routine was anything to write home about, however the whole right-sidebar was encrypted too. Not only was … Continue reading →

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Liberated Theme: Coffee Theme Liberated

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Owen

And here’s another liberated theme: coffee-theme-liberated. This one had a 220k footer which must have wasted literally hundreds of machine cycles to decrypt on every page load. Not only that, but there was also an encrypted section in the sidebar, … Continue reading →

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