Digital media not only forces newsrooms to face economic challenges, but also workflow issues. In a recent post, Todd Benoit, director of news and new media at the Bangor Daily News addressed the root of the workflow problem in his newsroom: Like many newsrooms, until very recently we were production heavy because we had to...Read More
It seems that the WordPress developers have a thing for releasing a new version of WordPress shortly before I’m going to bed. Whenever they do it means that I have to stay away to find out if it fixes security vulnerabilities. If it does, I update all of my blogs immediately. Instead of going to...Read More
WordPress has just announced WordPress 3.1.4, which includes a maintenance and security update for all previous versions. WordPress says the new release incorporates several security fixes and hardening measures, particularly addressing one issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the site. Credit to WordPress developers Alexander Concha and Jon Cave who worked...Read More
I occasionally have the pleasure of reviewing a product that I am so taken with that I adopt it for personal use. And on very rare occasions, it’s a piece of software or tool that I’ve needed for a while but hadn’t had the time to research and buy or download. WordPress.com, the free blogging...Read More
Over the years, WordPress has introduced more and more features, which, although make the software a more robust blogging platform, have made the writing UI more cluttered. Nevertheless, I have gotten so accustomed to it, so much so that I have found myself preferring it over many other writing tools and applications simply because it...Read More
WordPress 3 Ultimate Security, stepping out precisely how to protect the popular blogging and content management platform, is published by Packt:- Â WordPress 3 Ultimate Security – http://guv.li/wppr Written for noobs and pros alike by Olly Connelly, aka the_guv on his guvnr.com and vpsBible.com websites and @the_guv on Twitter, and published by the technical house...Read More
6-27-11: National AIDS Testing Day June 27, 2011 <!–mdmorn–> It’s National HIV-AIDS Testing Day. And it’s the first once since new research suggesting that early treatment can stop the spread of the virus. Can a “treatment as prevention†approach turn the tide of the AIDS epidemic? Today, Sheilah discusses the prospect with Derek Spencer and Robert...Read More
Account holders on WordPress.org have had their passwords reset after the discovery of contaminated code in a trio of plug-ins. “Cleverly disguised backdoors” were found in several popular plugins after suspicious commits were made to them. WordPress.org is the code repository for the popular open source WordPress blogging engine that literally powers millions of websites on the...Read More
(click image for larger view and for full slideshow)WordPress on Tuesday warned all users who run its software on their own servers to beware a trio of malicious plug-ins for its content management software, which may have been available for download from the site for more than 24 hours. “Earlier today the WordPress team noticed...Read More
Companies and bloggers that run their own WordPress installations should make sure that they have not downloaded any of three popular plugins that were, for about 24 hours, playing host to malicious code, WordPress creator Auttomatic warned. “The WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins containing cleverly disguised backdoors,” wrote Matt Mullenweg, a...Read More
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