WordPress Enters Real-Time: 7.5 Million Blogs Reach Twitter Speed

Sep 08, 2009 No Comments

RSS, short for Real Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such as Google Reader (Google Reader). Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable (Mashable), The New York Times, and even LOLcats. Now WordPress has done something big that eliminates that RSS [...]

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WordPress Responds to Attack: “Please Upgrade”

Sep 06, 2009 No Comments

WordPress has responded to news today that outdated versions of the popular blogging software are vulnerable to a new attack. The attack affects only self-hosted versions of WordPress, not those at WordPress.com. The organization’s advice is simple: if you aren’t using the most recent version (2.8.4), upgrade now to avoid problems… Tweet This Post

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Security Threat: WordPress Under Attack

Sep 06, 2009 No Comments

We’re hearing of numerous reports that older versions of WordPress are exposed to security threats. WordPress is one of the largest blogging engines with over 5,317,360 – and counting – downloads for their latest version, 2.8. Many large blogs, including TechCrunch, rely on WordPress to get the news out and post content online… Tweet This [...]

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