Yesterday BlogSecurity announced a security vulnerability about WordPress 2.5, posted on SecurityFocus, read the article: WordPress 2.5 Secret_Key Vulnerability. This security pitfall only involves a few WordPress configurations, but if you're in those cases, then it's better to apply the proposed solution.
Talking about security, BlogSecurity updated their great WordPress Whitepaper, a PDF that teaches how to secure your WordPress blog, a must read!
An interesting security-related plugin was released, WP Security Scan. And if you care a lot about security, check out these security plugins.
On HackWordPress, an interesting discussion about how to choose the right images for your posts, and how to create a page template.
Don't miss this WordPress 2.5 Widget guide, by WordPress Max.
It seems that the much applauded (by its creators) WP 2.5 image gallery built-in function is not-so well working, because it outputs broken XHTML code (not validated). Here's the plugin Cleaner WordPress Gallery, that does well the job and adds some nice JavaScript like Lightbox.
By PlanetOzh, how to use WordPress 2.5 tooltips to show useful info in your plugins, and how to load JavaScript code in your WordPress plugins.
ThemeShaper doesn't like the sidebar, check out why. Maybe he got angry with it analyzing a new structure for the WordPress templates.
From Weblog Tools Collections, how to create your own WordPress loop and how to retrieve posts based upon custom fields values.
Know when to use Drupal and when WordPress in this video.
Here's a useful diagram that shows the hierarchy of a WordPress template.
On WordPressGuru, how to use custom fields to create home page and archive thumbnails using custom fields.
Interesting BlogHerald post on how to use the WordPress pages to organize the static content.
Performancing.com tells us why he hates WordPress 2.5 
From WordPress Hacks, how to switch from a static site to a WordPress one.
A nice logo, or a WordPress wallpaper? Here you can find a few of them!
See you next week for those nice WordPress news! 
April 24th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
i usllay use a plugin called … Wordpress Automatic Update to do my updates …
but this time i upgraded manually …
all went well for the most part …
some links broke … but were easy to fix …
if anyone of you know how to get lightbox to work on 2.5 …
plz do drop me a line on my blog …
thanks …