Comments on: WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.5, Security Issues, Plugins Updated, WordPress vs WordPressMU, and More

By: Live Stream

Live Stream — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:14:32 +0000

I’d must check with you here. Which isn’t one thing I usually do! I take pleasure in reading a post that may make people think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:31:37 +0000

Lorelle,
Many thanks for the advice.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:03:37 +0000

If the issue is a design one, then contact a web designer. You can also pay for help through any of the many experts in WordPress listed in the article information under WordPress Community. The WordPress Support Forum is the perfect place for help, but sometimes the question isn’t framed right so it’s hard to help when there isn’t enough information. Try again.

Worse case scenario, find a comment form that matches what you want in another Theme and copy the code and replace your old code in the comments template file. That might fix the problem.

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:21:39 +0000

While I truly appreciate all the support provided by codex and wordpress forums, and have myself benefited from them, I have been unsuccessful in resolving an issue with my comment box and have received no responses to my forum postings on this issue. I read forum issues on this topic but none seems to address my specific problem. Any suggstions on where I could turn would be greatly appreciated.

By: Question

Question — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:30:17 +0000

how are comments submitted to the wordpress software? is that some email protocol?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:04:01 +0000

@Bontb: When you do something brilliant for the WordPress Community, we'll talk. :D

By: Bontb

Bontb — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:40:28 +0000

How come you didn’t place me on that list :) goshhhhh.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:34:14 +0000

@Sam Stevens:

You will have to ask WordPress representatives. I don’t have the information on which are valid vulnerabilities or not. So many are “unimportant” in the scheme of things, but there are some serious ickies out there to which WordPress responds within very short order, sometimes within a few hours – better than most companies. If it was a serious concern, a patch would have been issued right away. But you’ll have to ask them directly.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:30:48 +0000

@seriocomic:

What are you saying? That you can count? That you didn’t know WordPress is spelled with a capital letter in the middle in compliance with the respect for their trademark? Okay, so I’m kidding back at you.

A Plugin’s proper name is WordPress Plugin. If I’m talking about WordPress News, I write that. If it is news in general, go see CNN or BBC. This is an article about WordPress news. It’s not for SEO games. However, it occurs to me that you’ve given me a challenge to see how many WordPress times I can get WordPress into this WordPress comment. :D

Sometimes, the use of a word in an article or blog post is appropriately used. No ulterior motives. I’ve been doing this for a very long time and helped write the guidelines for the WordPress Codex and technical guides, so trust me, each usage was appropriate and accurate, but thanks for paying attention to the details.

By: seriocomic

seriocomic — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:04:10 +0000

Now, I love WordPress as much as the next person, and appreciate the trove of great information listed – but was this written for humans or search engines?

The word “WordPress” appears in:
Title: 4 times
Body: 291 times
H1/H2/H3: 14 times
Links: 134 times
Bold: 46 times

I’m just saying…

By: Sam Stevens

Sam Stevens — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:22:10 +0000

I read back in Feb about a XSS sec vuln in 2.0.11, posted in the WP forums about it, but never got any response. Is this vuln not accurate?

By: Chris Merriman

Chris Merriman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:17:34 +0000

Please also see here for a an additional post, which was written after the post linked to from here. Obviously the list isn't at all comprehensive, but I'm hoping it will help out others unsure as to whether or not to upgrade to WP 2.5 yet.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:42:21 +0000

Regarding the flash file uploader "bug", one solution I'm surprised that hasn't been spread far and wide in the WP community is a plugin that just simply disables the uploader. The link to it can be found at the bottom of this support post.

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:54:56 +0000

Thanks for the thorough update Lorelle.

We’re currently working on updating all of our sites to 2.5.

I also just listened to the presentation you gave at WordCamp Dallas – you had some great tips in there!