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WordPress 2.3.2 has been released and this is recommended upgrade due to a few security fixes. If you need assistance in upgrading, please contact us.

WordPress 2.3.1 has been released and this is recommended upgrade due to a few security fixes.  If you need assistance in upgrading, please contact us.

Anyone who uses the WordPress Theme Viewer to find themes to use for WordPress may have been surprised recently when a few thousand themes started to disappear from the site. Apparently there has been a problem with “sponsored” and “spam” themes, thus they have been removed as version 3.0 of the WordPress Theme Viewer has been started.

Matt Mullenweg explains this in a little more detail on his blog.

If you’re interested in setting up Zen Cart to sell downloadable products (mp3’s, e-books, etc), I highly recommend taking a look at the Downloadable Products in Zen Cart by Adam at I Make Websites. It is very easy to understand and you should have your downloadable products ready to go very quickly and painlessly.

As always, feel free to contact us regarding our Zen Cart services.

WordPress 2.2.1 has been released and this is required upgrade due to a few security fixes. If you’re running an older version of 2.1.x or 2.2.0 you should upgrade ASAP. If you need assistance in upgrading, please contact us.

WordPress 2.2 “Getz” was released three weeks ago, and after giving the new version a good run through we are ready to begin upgrading client blogs from 2.1.x to 2.2.

In this version they have fixed quite a few bugs, sped up the software and have added “widgets” to the core code. Widgets are mainly used to control the position of sidebar elements via a drag and drop interface within the WordPress administration area.

Of note, most themes will require updates in order to use widgets, some sidebar components may need to be added in order to use widgets & the post preview feature has been removed. If you like the post preview option, there is a plugin available that can be installed.

For those of you how have upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1 (we’re not sure about 2.1.0) it would appear that it is somewhat important to upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2.

The following just came in via e-mail from Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress:

If anyone is running 2.1.1, or knows someone who is, I would recommend upgrading to 2.1.2 as soon as possible. No announcement quite yet, but coming soon. Thanks for your help.

If you need assistance upgrading, please contact us and we will tackle this throughout the weekend as necessary.

WordPress 2.1.1 has been released as well as WordPress 2.0.9 for users sticking with the 2.0.x line for now.  These are both bugfix and security releases.  If you need help upgrading, please contact us.

WordPress 2.1 Ella was released last week with a host of additions, updates & bug fixes as well as an improved API for plugin development. While the new features aren’t what we’d classify as “must haves” for everyone, they are very handy, especially if you post to and/or manage multiple blogs.

A few things to note are:

• You must have MySQL 4.0 or newer
• Some plugins may no longer work
• Some themes may need updates

Here’s the run down of user features that what we really like:

• Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again. — In order for this to work make sure to give your post a title before writing your post.
• Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post. — Very nice if you want to easily switch between WYSIWYG & HTML views.
• The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs. — This is a major time saver if you ever need to move your WordPress blog to another server or a different domain.
• Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking. — Very nice and now there’s no longer a need copy and pasting from a different word processing application.
• You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system. — If you’re using WordPress as a CMS this will save you a few steps. Of note, this is located under the Options > Reading tabs.
• Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. — From our testing, yes, this is much faster tha the 2.0.x line of releases.
• Pages can now be drafts, or private. — Another nice CMS feature. Next up, an approval system?
• The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio. — Looks nice.

Other than that, there are some major back-end code changes that we won’t bore you with the details of, except to say that if you’re a WordPress plugin developer you should really take a look under the hood and find out what had been depreciated in the API and what has been added to the API.

If you desire WordPress consulting help in migrating from WordPress 2.0.x to WordPress 2.1, please contact us. Up until WordPress 2.2 is released we are offering a flat rate upgrade of $50 USD for any WordPress 2.0.x based blogs that do not have modified core WordPress files. Any broken plugins and themes that need to be fixed may increase the cost, and we will let you know that before performing any additional work. All other WordPress consulting will fall under our normal rates.

After more than a year of development we are ready to release Drupal 4.7.0 to the world. More than five years, 13 major releases, 30+ servicing firms employing 100+ Drupal professionals, 300+ third party modules, and over 55,000+ Drupal powered sites later, Drupal 4.7.0 is finally here and it rocks!

2005 has been explosive for the Drupal community. Drupal.org usage has almost tripled in terms of page views, downloads, and number of users, and with the release of Drupal 4.7.0 we are seeing this new found energy drive the platform development forward at an amazing pace. There have been over 338 contributors to this latest release with over 1500 patches which is almost triple our previous record with Drupal 4.6 of 523 commits by 50 developers. These new contributions are seen in the major usability improvements, new Drupal core functionality, and expansion of the Drupal development framework that will afford themers and contributing developers even greater flexibility and power.

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