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All in One SEO Pack plugin goes to retirement
Whilst carrying out a regular check-up of all my active plugins, I found out that the All in One SEO Pack plugin, one of the most used WordPress plugin, is no longer maintained or supported by the author – Uberdose.
This means we have to get along with the present working version 1.4.6.8 – hoping it will remain compatible with future WordPress releases – and hoping it does not become a security issue.
My hope is that the author passes this plugin to some other community programmer who can carry-on this project - Let good will prevail.
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Ndomche Summary Theme released - A free theme for WordPress 2.5
Ndomche Summary Theme is a CSS styling theme that is built on WordPress 2.5 that you can style to your taste. If you have not yet upgraded to WordPress 2.5, you are advised to do so before using this theme.
- With this theme your Gravatars would show up without any further customization.
- This grid-based theme is considers the need to have non-obstructive ads on your blog and seeks to ease navigation.
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Test how secure are your passwords with Password Meter
Find out how secure are your passwords with this online tool called Password Meter. It would tell if your mother’s surname you use as password is secure enough. This tool able to show you exactly where your password “fails” and where it “excels”.
Putting together Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, Numbers, Symbols makes a better password, but repeating characters or a letters-only / numbers- only passwords make a bad password and Password Meter gives you a low password score.
Most WordPress administrators continue to use the default Username “admin” - this username is very easy to guess, which means all the security burden is left on the “Password”. Find out how secure is this password.
Do something good for yourself – change the “admin” username to something else at your Mysql database.
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The WordPress Story – So Far So Good
How Automattic, the company behind WordPress faced hard-times before becoming a huge profit maker with new investors like New York Times (that uses WordPress), and how Akismet, the wonder spam-fighting service changed not only the future of WordPress by blocking millions of spams from reaching blogs but also that of Automattic that looks forward to investing more on anti-spam, identity and the like. By Matthew Mullenweg aka Matt
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WordPress Plugin - MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad
MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad is a simple WordPress Ad plugin that places a little ad stripe at the top of your blog - that’s all; its an alternative way to put ads on your blogs. These ads sit right up there, where they can be seen by everyone. No pop-ups, nothing. It is very easy to use and can be customized to match with your site’s theme. You can place as many ads as you want – these ads can be rotated as often as you want.
If you are not using it to promote your products, then you could use it to invite readers to subscribe to your feeds, to show your best articles or to present a blog contest or ask your readers to donate for charity purposes and more – its just the easiest and (on of the) less intrusive way(s) to call for your readers attention.
The only draw_back is the ad “Powered by MaxBlogPress” the plugin author puts on on the right side of the Stripe – it cannot be taken off from, if this is not an issue for you, then why not get it - MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad. In exchange for the plugin you’ll be asked to make a little subscription.
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Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2
Due to security reasons the WordPress team quickly came up with an upgrade. It is time to move on – from WordPress 2.3.1 to WordPress 2.3.2 The major fixes include; repairing information-revealing error messages and fixing a bug that can expose draft post. The upgrade involves 16 files – to upgrade it should be enough to replace just these files (That’s what I did). Anyway always backup before carrying out any upgrade and always try to follow the upgrade instructions to avoid any issues. Make sure you download WordPress from their official website - you never know.
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WordPress 2.3 now available for download
The WordPress team is proud to announce that WordPress 2.3 is now available for download. This new version was released today 25 September. “Dexter” as the team calls it came out with a bunch of new features like; including native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements. Examine each of these features one by one; More»
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