A few news in the WordPress world: first of all, WordPress 2.5.1 was released, a security release that solves a few problems found in the WP security.
Matt Mullenweg has made 2 important announcements regarding WordPress.com:
- A new feature will be introduced in WordPress.com, a plugin that will display the related posts, searching them in your blog first, then on wordpress.com and then on the internet.
- A new theme for photoblogging, called Monotone, will be made available to all users.
Themeshaper shows how to Add Gravatars For The Post Author in WordPress, and How To Build WP-PageNavi Into Your WordPress Theme.
Talking about WordPress 2.6, What to Expect with WordPress 2.6, 30+ Things That Should Be Changed for WordPress 2.6, and 5 Things WordPress should not do in 2.6.
From BloggingTips, how to manage Static Pages in WordPress.
From Weblog Tools Collection, how to reset WP password manually. Talking about Weblog Tools Collection, they started a WordPress Plugin competition. Nice idea! (it’s not the first one they organize)
bbPress had a small update for security - related concerns.
From HackWordPress, How To: Using WordPress as a Static Site
Lorelle on WordPress published the post WordPress Security Prevention, Reactions, and Scares, a nice discussion about the security of WordPress, its perception, a comparison with other popular CMS (Joomla! and Drupal) security issues plus some basic info on securing your blog.
A few videos:
- Wordpress Tutorial - Customizing Header With Linked Images
- Wordpress Blogroll Categories
- WordPress Performance Optimization and Tuning with SteadyOffload
