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WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate 2    阅读原文» Howdy! The second release candidate for WordPress 3.2 is now available. If you haven’t tested WordPress 3.2 yet, now is the time — please though, not on your live site unless you're extra adventurous. We’ve handled a number of issues since RC1, including additional Twenty Eleven tweaks, a new theme support option for defaulting to randomized headers, and various RTL fixes. Plugin and theme authors, please test your plugins and themes now , so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release. Users are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause. If you are testing the release candidate and think you’ve found a bug, there are a few ways to let us know: Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums or wp-testers Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.n...

Passwords Reset    阅读原文» Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits were not from the authors, rolled them back, pushed updates to the plugins, and shut down access to the plugin repository while we looked for anything else unsavory. We’re still investigating what happened, but as a prophylactic measure we’ve decided to force-reset all passwords on WordPress.org. To use the forums, trac, or commit to a plugin or theme, you’ll need to reset your password to a new one . (Same for bbPress.org and BuddyPress.org.) As a user, make sure to never use the same password for two different services, and we encourage you not to reset your password to be the same as your old one. Second, if you use AddThis , WPtouch , or W3 Total Cache and there’s a possibility you could have updated in the past day, make sure...

Bangor Daily News: A complete publishing system on WordPress    阅读原文» Check out the inspiring and detailed story about Bangor Daily News switching to a publishing system powered by WordPress and Google Docs , on Media Bistro. There’s also a screencast which outlines their new editorial workflow and a list of all the plugins you can install to run your own news site with WordPress (emphasis ours): The Bangor Daily News announced this week that it completed its full transition to open source blogging software, WordPress. And get this: The workflow integrates seamlessly with InDesign, meaning the paper now has one content management system for both its web and print operations. And if you're auspicious enough, you can do it too ― he's open-sourced all the code ! Rather than having to pay a licensing fee to a company that runs your content management system, what The BDN has set up is essentially free to run. Of course, there were upfront costs involved with paying f...