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[WordPress News] WordPress 3.1 Released Update Now

WordPress team finally released WordPress 3.1 today after a long wait. With this release WordPress powered with new capabilities like archive pages for custom content types, a new Network Admin, Import and export system and ability to do advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.

WordPress 3.1 is named as “Reinhardt” in name of honor of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

Download Link for WordPress 3.1

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[WordPress News] WordPress 3.0.5 Released: Important Security Update

Already, in earlier article I talk about that WordPress team release WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 4 and now WordPress fixes the important security updates by releasing WordPress 3.0.5.

According to official release,

WordPress 3.0.5 is now available for as a new update and it is a security hardening update to all earlier versions of WordPress.

This security release required for untrusted user accounts, especially for multi-author blogs. All WordPress users requested to update to this newer versions as soon as possible. In this security release, WordPress fixes:

Two moderate security issues – that could have allowed a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the site.

One information disclosure issue – was addressed that could have allowed an Author-level user to view contents of posts they should not be able to see, such as draft or private posts.

Two security enhancements

Improved the security of any plugins which were not properly leveraging our security API.
It offers additional defense in-depth against a vulnerability that was fixed in previous release.

So, it’s a request to update to latest version as soon as possible. If you are unable to update to latest version you can get in touch by using Free WordPress Installation Service

Download Link for WordPress 3.0.5

[WordPress News] WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 4

WordPress team released 3.1 RC4 (Release Candidate), which means that the product is ready for last launch. I think that it’s the last release candidate before last release of WordPress 3.1. I have already shared in earlier posts that what are the changes been made in every release candidate. Here is a quick recap:

WordPress Release Candidate 3.1 RC1

WordPress Release Candidate 3.1 RC2

WordPress Release Candidate 3.1 RC3

All these will help you to distinguish about the changes taking place in WordPress release candidate.

According to Official release,

The release candidate 4 build includes the security fixes and enhancements included in 3.0.5 and address about two dozen additional bugs. This includes fixes for:

Deleting a user and reassigning their posts to another user.
Marking multiple users or sites as spam in multisite.
PHP4 compatibility.

If you want to try WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 4, you can download it form here and if you find any issues or bug, then you can report about theme here:

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

Download Link for WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 4

[WordPress News] WordPress.com Announced Premium Themes To Its Users

Today Automattic announced that WordPress.com users now able to buy premium WordPress Themes, as before premium themes available for Self-Hosted WordPress blog only. The first two premium themes that will be available on WordPress.com are headlines by Woo Themes and Shelf from Theme Foundary and additional WordPress theme will be rolled out later in this year.

At present 17 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com and premium themes will give these users to buy these premium themes and give their blogs a more professional interface.

These two premium themes available at $45 and $68 respectively and each theme supported by theme shops themselves by using a forum at WordPress.com which is available to only those who buy these themes.

Headlines is $45 and a magazine-style theme, perfect for users who have lots of content. It features 15 different color schemes, drop-down custom menus and a featured post slider.

Shelf, a tumblelog style theme, is $68 it takes advantage of WordPress.com’s nw post formats feature and has a fun horizontal scrolling design.

As a WordPress user would you love to buy these premium themes or not??

[WordPress News] WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 3

WordPress team released WordPress 3.1 RC3 (Release Candidate 3) and it is available for download to all users and developers. RC stands for “Release Candidate” which means that product is almost ready for final launch. WordPress team already released WordPress 3.1 Release Candidate 2 after New Year.

According to WordPress team, some of the changes are:

Removal of Ajax

Properly display the author dropdown in Quick Edit

Various important fixes to numerous taxonomy query variables

Fixes to the theme deletion process

Fixes to pages used for posts

IIS and Multisite: Avoid resetting web.config on permalink save

Properly validate post formats and their rewrite rules

Thinking of giving it a try then download it now but remember that it is not ready to use on live site. You can still use it for testing purposes and if you find some bug, then there are few ways to inform WordPress team.

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

Download Link for WordPress 3.1 RC3

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