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WP-Polls 2.11 Released

WP-Polls 2.11
» NEW: You Can Now Place The Poll On The Sidebar As A Widget
» NEW: Moved wp-polls.php To wp-content/plugins/polls/ Folder
» FIXED: AJAX Not Working In Opera Browser
» FIXED: Poll Not Working On Physical Pages That Is Integrated Into WordPress
» Download WP-Polls 2.11

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Confirmed WordPress 2.7 Features

Ryan Boren has posted a list of confirmed features that will appear in WordPress 2.7. Some of this features are still under development and they should be done soon.

New admin UI based on the crazyhorse experimental UI branch with new menus and navigation
New edit post page that allows dragging and dropping of meta boxes. Boxes can be expanded and collapsed as before and now also completely hidden.
Ability to hide columns on the content index pages
Inline editing of posts and pages on the content index pages
Comments XMLRPC API (Who wants comment moderation on the iPhone? Me.)
Reply to comments from the admin
Keyboard hot keys for managing comments
Threaded Comments and new wp_list_comments() API
Sticky Posts
Automatic plugin install and integrated plugin browser
Automatic upgrade of WordPress
HTTPOnly auth cookies
New HTTP request API
A new SSH2 filesystem abstraction for updates and installs over sftp

Theme update, install, and browsing may also get done in time for 2.7.

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WP-Polls 2.06b

I have fixed a small bug in wp-polls.php. Under the function vote_poll();

$voted_cookie = check_voted_cookie($poll_ip);

It should be $poll_id instead of $poll_ip.

Thanks to Janne from Finland

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WordPress 3.0.4

WordPress 3.0.4 has been released and it a critical update as it fixes an XSS vulnerability.

It is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as critical.
I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well.

If you are a security researcher, we’d appreciate you taking a look over this changeset as well to review our update. We’ve given it a lot of thought and review but since this is so core we want as many brains on it as possible. Thanks to Mauro Gentile and Jon Cave (duck_) who discovered and alerted us to these XSS vulnerabilities first.

Changelog: WordPress 3.0.4
Download: WordPress 3.0.4
Download: Modified files since WordPress 3.0.3

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WP-Polls 2.20 Updates

I have make the following additions/changes to WP-Polls 2.20:

NEW: Poll Archive Link Template
NEW: Poll Templates Has Now Its Own Page ‘WP-Admin -> Polls -> Poll Templates’
NEW: Poll Widget Can Now Display Multiple Polls
FIXED: Poll Archive Will Now Show Only Polls That Are Closed

I hope I can released WP-Polls 2.20 in mid May 2007.

I have left 1 more task to do which I have no idea how to design it; To improve the Edit Poll page where it shows a list of IP addresses of the users who voted for the poll. Imagine you got 4000+ people who voted for the poll like the sample poll you see on the right sidebar. It will be a nightmare when it comes to editing the poll (due to the time taken to render the page).

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