WordPress 2.8.1

WordPress 2.8.1 has been released.

WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.

Some of the fixes:

  • Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
  • Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running out of memory when loading the dashboard, resulting in an incomplete page.
  • The automatic upgrade no longer accidentally deletes files when cleaning up from a failed upgrade.
  • A problem where the rich text editor wasn’t being loaded due to compression issues has been worked around.
  • Extra security has been put in place to better protect you from plugins that do not do explicit permission checks.
  • Translation of role names fixed.
  • wp_page_menu() defaults to sorting by the user specified menu order rather than the page title.
  • Upload error messages are now correctly reported.
  • Autosave error experienced by some IE users is fixed.
  • Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
  • SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
  • Switched back to curl as the default transport.
  • Updated the translation library to avoid a problem with mbstring.func_overload.
  • Stricter inline style sanitization.
  • Stricter menu security.
  • Disabled code highlighting due to browser incompatibilities.
  • RTL layout fixes.

Full Changelog in WordPress 2.8.1

Download: WordPress 2.8.1

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (191 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

Random Poll

Random Poll Will Now Be In WP-Polls 2.06 =D

Refresh This Page.

How Is My Site?

  • Good (42%, 836 Votes)
  • Excellent (31%, 612 Votes)
  • Can Be Improved (12%, 231 Votes)
  • No Comments (8%, 167 Votes)
  • Bad (7%, 148 Votes)

Total Voters: 1,995

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (137 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

WordPress 3.5 Beta 2

WordPress 3.5 Beta 2 has been released!

Changes since Beta 1

  • New workflow for working with image galleries, including drag-and-drop reordering and quick caption editing.
  • New user interface for setting static front pages for the Reading Settings screen. (#16379)
  • New image editing API. (#6821)

Download: WordPress 3.5 Beta 2

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (125 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

Speaking At Singapore PHP User Group Meetup (Dec 2007)

I will be speaking at Singapore PHP User Group Meetup (Dec 2007) on Wednesday, 12th December 2007 at Singapore Management University (SMU). The meetup will be from 7:30pm – 10:30pm.

My schedule as follows:

2) Technology: WordPress Plugin Development with PHP

Presenter: Lester Chan, WordPress Plugin Developer Extraordinaire

I am so nervous as it is my first time speaking publicly!

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (83 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)

Remote File

I have added a feature to WP-DownloadManager that will allow you to add a remote file to the downloads. This remote file will looks as if it resides on your own server and the process is totally transparent to the user. The only downside is at times it is unable to get the file size and hence it will display as unknown.

I have added WP-PostRatings 1.20 Beta 1 as an example of remote file. Remember that the file does not reside in this sever but it is pointing to a remote file url which is http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-postratings.zip

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (76 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5)