How to Keep WordPress Secure
A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later. Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. [...]
Posted by Matt Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009
Categories: Ferret News, Security
Tags: advice, Club, google, Hide, Mark Pilgrim, open heart surgery, page attempts, security bug, stitch, stitch in time, stitch in time saves nine, time, true advice, version, WordPress, work, worm
Improving your plugin – Changelogs
We’ve recently made some changes to help improve the communication between plugin authors and plugin users about the changes that are made between versions. We feel that all software should have a changelog that details, at a high level, what changes have been made in each version so that the user can make an informed decision [...]
Posted by Peter Westwood Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Categories: Ferret News
Tags: level, open communication, plugin, plugin directory, plugin users, previous version, readme, repository, section, software, subversion, user, version