Are you having problem upgrading your Wordpress blog to the latest version? Finding it time consuming to do the Wordpress upgrade? Problems with your Wordpress blog after upgrading because you didn’t follow the standard procedures? Now, there’s a fast, easy and no brainer way with Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin is a absolute great plugin for all wordpress users to upgrade to the latest version. (For those who are using cPanel hosting which has Fantastico, you can do without this plugin)

Here is what the plugin does:

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

It follows standard recommended wordpress upgrade procedures and just sit back and watch it do it all for you.

Download it here.

wordpress automatic upgrade plugin

Multi-author blogging with wordpress previous was not but not good enough. Wordpress 2.3, scheduled to be up by 20th September 2007, will enhance multi-author blogging ability tremendous. Here’s the wordpress road map. Check out also the discussion of the wordpress hackers for the ideas of wordpress 2.3 developments.

We have a nice little workflow improvement for those of you who use the Contributor role on your blogs. Contributors can now submit their posts for review by an Editor. When Contributors are done editing their post, they press the “Submit for Review” button to put the post in the Editor’s pending review queue.

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multi author blogging, wordpress 2.3

Recently award WebWare 100 Award famous blogging platform Wordpress has Wordpress 2.2.1 after a round of bug and security for version 2.2 solved.

Bug fixes

• Atom feed validation fixes (#4274, #4307, #4381, #4382)
• XML-RPC fixes (#4314, #4329, #4315, #4469)
• Widget backward compatibility fixes (#4275)
• Widget layout fixes for IE7 (#4264, #4268)
• Page and Text Widget improvements (#4302, #4259)

View the full bug list that was fixed here.

Security fixes

• Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
• Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC Discovered by Alexander Concha.
• Unescaped attribute in default theme

Those who have upgraded to version 2.2 should upgrade it.

Tech News, Wordpress

This Tutorial is Part of Atomic Blogging ( A Step By Step Guide to Blogging )

What you see above are the number of Spam messages I get so far on my blog! It’s HUGE! Arent they ignoring? To avoid and prevent all this spam you must use Akismet - A Free Plugin to avoid spam for your blog.

Before I start, Akismet is a free open source spam program online to help fight spam for wordpress owners.

Just follow the following steps to get started to prevent Spam on your blog.
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Blogging, Wordpress

Do you know that there’s hidden formatting functions in your WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress? It is actually built-in in Wordpress 2. Normally your Wordpress visual editor would look like this:

However, it can look like that:

What are the hidden formatting functions? Here’s the list:
* Format
* Underline
* Font Colour
* Paste as plain text
* Paste from Word
* Remove Formating
* Cleanup Messy code
* Insert Custom Character
* Undo
* Redo

All you need to do is to press Alt key + Shift key + V on your keyboard when you are using your Wordpress Visual editor. Make sure your visual editor is enable.

via [Wahlau.NET]

Web Tips, Wordpress