Just a word of caution for anyone who is using their WordPress install in order to power a podcast via PodPress…DO NOT UPGRADE TO WORDPRESS 2.6 just yet.  There is an issue with PodPress 8.8 that won’t allow you to add and save the audio file(s) in WordPress 2.6.  Dan from Mighty Seek said an update should be avaialble 10 days from now, so keep your eyes open for that.

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, development of the WordPress Spam Karma plugin has officially been discontinued and the current code has been released GPL Version 2.  While this isn’t a plugin we use ourselves, we do see it running on probably around 10% (+/-) of our clients’ blogs, thus the announcement has caught our attention.

To address what the future of Spam Karma may hold, we can only speculate from what we’ve seen in the past with other open source projects.  Here are some common scenarios:

• The project will just die. Since this is already “off the ground” we doubt that happens, at least not right away.
• An individual or a group of people will pick it up and run with it.  The majority of WordPress plugins fall under this category.
• A development firm will pick it up and take over development. This could be likely due to the high profile of the plugin as long as the development firm consistently has the time and resources to devote to the development and upkeep of the plugin.

So, with that said, we’ll keep our eyes open to see what happens.  In the meantime, Spam Karma 2.3 Release Candidate 1 seems to still work with WordPress 2.6.

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WordPress 2.3.3 has been released and is an urgent security release. At the very minimum you need to update your xmlrpc.php file.

WordPress MU 1.3.3 has been released as well due to the same security fix.

Also of note, there is a vulnerability in the WP-Forum plugin that is being actively exploited right now. If you are using this plugin, please remove it until an update is available.

If you need assistance with upgrading, please contact us.

Watershed Studio’s WordPress Tab Default to Pages Plugin v1.0.1 has been released.

This release features two minor cosmetic changes:

• We fixed the top level tab highlighting
• We moved the page submenus in front of the post submenus

And if you need help customizing this plugin to suit your own needs, please request a quote.

Watershed Studio’s WordPress Tab Default to Pages Plugin v1.0 has been released.

This plugin simply sets the main write and manage tabs to to default to “page” instead of post. The code is released under the GPL, so someone may find it useful to build upon (adding and removing other menus/submenus).

And if you need help customizing this plugin to suit your own needs, please request a quote.