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Antonio Lupetti of Woorkup.com has created and released an awesome visual cheat sheet for WordPress 2.8. The cheat sheet contains a practical reference guide to 2.8 with references to WP Template Tags as well as sample code. Definitely worthy of being added to your resources bin.
Check out the live demo before you download the guide.
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Original post by Jeff Chandler
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The WordPress team has released WordPress 2.8.2, which fixes a XSS vulnerability. This releases fixes a issue with comment author URLs;
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.
It is recommended that you upgrade your version of WordPress either by downloading the newer version or using the automatic upgrade feature in the admin dashboard.
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WordPress 2.8.2 Security Update
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Original post by Keith Dsouza
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After upgrading my website to WordPress 2.8 Baker I knew there would be a flurry of activity as plugin developers updated their stuff for the latest version of WordPress.
However, when I logged in to my admin panel and saw that 6 plugins had upgrades after a very short time frame since I had last checked I suspected one author might have updated their stuff. My suspicion was right.
The prolific WordPress plugin programmer Lester Chan had updated all of his WordPress plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.8. If your unfamiliar with Lester’s work than you are missing out on some of the best plugins for WordPress and I highly recommend you check them out.
So how popular is Lester’s work? Check out his Top 10 Downloaded Plugins (borrowed from his website as of this posting):
WP-Polls - 241,750 downloads
WP-PageNavi - 232,786 downloads
WP-PostRatings - 155,396 downloads
WP-PostViews - 102,572 downloads […]
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Now that WordPress 2.8 has been released, it really would be more useful and helpful to get a big list of tips and tricks that addresses several new things in WordPress 2.8 and helps to learn or tweak the new features, these tips come from several users who have been using WordPress 2.8 for sometime and have contributed with several posts that may help you make the best out of the latest version in WordPress.
WordPress Codex – Version 2.8
Custom Taxonomies in WordPress 2.8 – Justin Tadlok
Build A WordPress 2.8 Widget – WP Engineer
WordPress 2.8 and the body_class() Function – Nathan Rice
Authentication in WordPress 2.8 – Will Norris
Loading JavaScript in Footer in WordPress 2.8 – Lester Chan
This is non-exhaustive and I will keep updating it regularly, if you have any resources please do feel free to add to the list by commenting.
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WordPress 2.8 Tips and Tricks Collection
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Original post by Keith Dsouza
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Looks like WordPress 2.8 will be on schedule to be released on June 10th. Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of WordPress 2.8 is now available for downloads. According to the Official WordPress blog this may be the final RC released before WordPress 2.8 is released.
With Release Candidate 1, we think WordPress 2.8 is ready and complete.
If you are interested in testing out the release candidate or just want to try out WordPress 2.8 before it is finally released, you can download it from here, you can view the complete changelog to see the changes made since Beta 2, don’t forget to take a look at the new features in WordPress 2.8.
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WordPress 2.8 RC1 Available for Download
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Original post by Keith Dsouza
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The release date for WordPress 2.8 has almost been confirmed, according to the latest blog post on the WordPress development blog, the target date for releasing WordPress 2.8 is June 10th.
However this is only a target date and may not end up as being the release date in the end, however it would be good to see it released soon, considering the good number of features it has.
If you haven’t yet gotten a chance to take a look or test out WordPress 2.8, take a look at the Hands-on Review of WordPress 2.8 we did earlier today.
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WordPress 2.8 May Be Released On June 10th
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Original post by Keith Dsouza
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Over a period of time WordPress has evolved a lot integrating a host of interesting features in it, WordPress 2.8 is another exciting release which adds a host of new and interesting features.
If you haven’t tried the beta versions of WordPress 2.8 yet, here is a hands-on review that talks about the key features made available in this version of WordPress.
WordPress 2.8 Highlights
Theme Browser and Installer
Ability to add Custom Headers
New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new Widgets API
New ways to customize dashboard widgets
Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors.
Configurable Views on Management Pages.
Faster Loading Admin Pages
Theme Browser and Installer
The earlier versions of WordPress made it much more easier to install and update plugins, WordPress 2.8 adds a feature to allow users to easily install and upgrade themes.
The theme browser provides users with a variety of options to search themes, the options provided are colors, number of […]
Original post by Keith Dsouza
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