Archive for the 'wordcamp 2007' Category
Episode 43: Out of date blogs hacked, All-In-One SEO gets dropped, then picked up
- Brian Layman, of b5media, joins Charles as co-host, filling in for Jonathan Bailey who’s in Newcastle-upon-tyne, United Kingdom speaking at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference.
- Some blogs running older versions of WordPress were hacked. Peter offers a way to have your site notify you when things are changed.
- Support for the popular plugin All in One SEO Pack was dropped by its author, only to be picked up a few days later by a new author.
- Crazy Horse is a development branch of WordPress to further the admin overhaul begun by WordPress 2.5. (PDF document)
- Automattic Dev Andy Skelton introduced Batcache, a non file-based caching solution based on the one WordPress.com uses.
- HyperDB updated for compatibility with WordPress trunk at revision 8094.
- Get well soon, Lorelle!
- Plugin: Author Highlight allows you to style the comments made by you or other authors differently than regular commenters.
- Plugin: WP Security Scan scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.
Episode 28: WordCamp memories, theme hijackers and vulnerabilities
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Opinion: WordCamp San Francisco 2007 In this long-overdue (not to mention overly long) episode, Aaron and Charles share their thoughts on attending WordCamp in San Francisco including:
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Open question: Would anyone come to a WordCamp in Dallas, Texas? I’m interested in spearheading efforts to plan a WordCamp in early 2008 in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. If there is one, would you attend? |
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Announcement: The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group The next meeting of The Baltimore-Washington WordPress Meetup Group is scheduled for September 20th. (This wasn’t mentioned in the podcast because we spoke of the first meetup that occurred several weeks ago.) |
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News: Templates Browser modifying themes to distribute malware Templates Browser (no, I won’t link to them) is re-distributing public blog themes which are modified in such a way as to exploit the end user by inserting hidden spam or malware links. |
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News: Is WordPress vulnerable? Mark Jaquith answers a charge of 7 security vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.2.x |
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Feedback, comments and questions:
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Friday’s Meetup
WordCamp is going swimingly, except for the WiFi dying 5 minutes into the first session. I’m slightly bummed that neither Matt nor Dan mentioned the podcast, but then again, this weekend is about WordPress, not the podcast so… I’ll get over it.
The meetup last night was a whole lot of fun, as was the pre-party.
2 commentsWordCamp 2007 Update #1
I’ll be arriving in San Francisco for WordCamp sometime Thursday morning, and I’ll try and keep you updated as to what’s happening and what’s being said there through updates here on the blog.
This first update details:
- The WordCamp Report has been set up as a way of letting attendees share their experiences with each other and with those WordPress users unable to attend.
- Aaron and I will host a meetup of podcast listeners at the Crossroads Cafe (Google map) at 1 P.M. on Friday afternoon. Some of those who have mentioned they might visit with us include Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Kris Smith, and Patrick Havens, just to name a few. The cafe offers coffee, beer, wine, food, art and WiFi… everything a computer geek needs, and it’s very close to the Embarcadero and Pier 38, near where the Automattic pre-party is rumored to be held. We also might try and record the conversation for inclusion in a future episode of the podcast.
