Lester Chan's WordPress Plugins
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WordPress 2.6.5 has been released. This release fixes a security problem as well as 3 other minor fixes. he security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the … Continue reading “WordPress 2.6.5”
WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released. Numerous style improvements and refinements. All admin notices now go under the page title. PHP Notice fixes. Dashboard widget options now properly save. Menu fixes. New design for Quick Edit. Canonical feed URL fixes. Walker fixes. An update for Hello Dolly. Plugin installer updates. Numerous font updates. Updated … Continue reading “WordPress 2.7 Beta 3”
WordPres 2.7 Beta 2 has been released. Here are the changelog since beta 1: The Upload button didn’t always show. Fixed. JS on the Dashboard broke for blogs with no comments, causing several UI elements to “freeze”. Fixed. Recent Drafts Dashboard module didn’t show correct times. Fixed. Various Autosave fixes. Redirect after deleting a page … Continue reading “WordPress 2.7 Beta 2”
I tested both 1.31/2.31 version as well as 1.40/2.40 version of my plugins and they appear to work fine in WordPress 2.7 EXCEPT for WP-Email and WP-Print. It is because for some reasons the canonical redirect happens before my template redirect and hence /email/ will always be an invalid page in WordPress eyes. This issue … Continue reading “My Plugins And WordPress 2.7”
WordPress 2.6.3 is out, it fixes a Snoopy class vulnerability. A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download … Continue reading “WordPress 2.6.3”