WordPress 2.6.5 has just been released and is immediately available. Wordpress recommends everyone upgrade to this release. It fixes one security problem and 3 bugs.

Below is a list of the changes in detail:

• Added a check for the correct post_type to blogger.editPost and blogger.deletePost (#8267).
• Updates to update_post_meta() and delete_post_meta() to ensure they work correctly with post revisions and don’t create the meta on the revision instead of the post (#7925).
• Protection for a very difficult to exploit XSS issue (#8291).
• Fix for an XSS issue with the Atom and RSS feeds on some hosting setups ([9754], [9770]).

Note that we have skipping version 2.6.4 and jumped from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 to avoid confusion with a fake 2.6.4 release that made the rounds. There is not and never will be a version 2.6.4. Download WordPress 2.6.5 now.

Wordpress 2.6 Tyner is now available for download.  Matt is happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available. Wordpress Version 2.6 “Tyner” was named after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.

Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:

• Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.

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Matt of WordPress.org posted a sneak peek of the upcoming version WordPress 2.5 and is just about to be released anytime soon. Features to be watched for is a customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times. Is that what you’re looking for in an upgrade?

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A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit to give you a taste.
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The software is basically done and stable, and could be released today, but we’d like to incorporate feedback from a wider audience before making it available to the general public. After a few days of your feedback we’ll set a final release date. Personally, I can’t wait.

Full Article about Wordpress 2.5.

At last, I have finally upgraded my blog’s wordpress 2.2.1 version to wordpress 2.3.3 version. Nothing easy but it was an experience.

Be back soon…. more one my new Wordpress theme layout. Happy Valentine’s Day to all!

I was inspired to repost GoogleLady’s TimeStamp Powerful Blog Tool article because this tool is indeed very powerful and useful. Also, I was guilty on her second reason. But now I know how to use it.

I have been reading a lot blog posts saying that they are sorry for not being able to post XX days ago because they were to busy, they were on vacation, bla bla bla… But everytime that I read this on certain blogs I came to a conclusion that there are two reasons why they make this:

1. They don’t know about the timestamp tool.
2. They are not appasionated about their blog niche.

…….. I have mentioned #2 that they are not passionated about their niche blog, are those bloggers that don’t know what to write and always wait someone else to make an article and write something “similar” with the same idea.

Yes it is very useful when scheduling future posts in wordpress when you are too busy or when you are on vacation and can not go online. Cowboytf of bloggingcents showed steps on How To Schedule a Future Post in Wordpress. Go play with Wordpress TimeStamp feature.

Wordpress Version 2.3 “Dexter” is available for download now.

This release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more. This release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.

Here are the new features included:

1. Native tagging support allows you to use tags in addition to categories on your post, if you so choose. We’ve included importers for the Ultimate Tag Warrior, Jerome’s Keywords, Simple Tags, and Bunny’s Technorati Tag plugins so if you’ve already been using a tagging plugin you can bring your data into the new system. The tagging system is also wicked-fast, so your host won’t mind.
2. Our new update notification lets you know when there is a new release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and greatest is you can use.
3. We’ve cleaned up URLs a bunch in a feature we call canonical URLs which does things like enforce your no-www preference, redirect posts with changed slugs so a link never goes bad, redirect URLs that get cut off in emails on similar to the correct post, and much more. This helps your users, and it also helps your search engine optimization, as search engines like for each page to be available in one canonical location.
4. Our new pending review feature will be great for multi-author blogs. It allows authors to submit a post for review by an editor or administrator, where before they would just have to save a draft and hope someone noticed it.
5. There is new advanced WYSIWYG functionality (we call it the kitchen sink button) that allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.

With the new features, I still have to wait for my hosting company Godaddy.com, still using Version 2.2.1, to upgrade to Version 2.3. I have read some comments in other blogs that they encounter plugins/plugin incompatibilities. I would love to hear your experience what you encounter If you already have done the upgrade to 2.3.