WordPress 3.5.1 was released on January 24, 2013 and is a maintenance and security update which addresses 37 bugs with version 3.5, which include:

• Editor: Prevent certain HTML elements from being unexpectedly removed or modified in rare cases.
• Media: Fix a collection of minor workflow and compatibility issues in the new media manager.
• Networks: Suggest proper rewrite rules when creating a new network.
• Prevent scheduled posts from being stripped of certain HTML, such as video embeds, when they are published.
• Work around some misconfigurations that may have caused some JavaScript in the WordPress admin area to fail.
• Suppress some warnings that could occur when a plugin misused the database or user APIs.

The security issues addressed include:

• A server-side request forgery vulnerability and remote port scanning using pingbacks. This vulnerability, which could potentially be used to expose information and compromise a site, affects all previous WordPress versions. This was fixed by the WordPress security team.
• Two instances of cross-site scripting via shortcodes and post content.
• A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the external library Plupload.

As always, we highly recommend that you keep your WordPress installation, WordPress themes and WordPress plugins up to date to ensure that you’re running the most secure and feature rich version of WordPress.

If you need assistance with upgrading, please schedule your WordPress upgrade today via our WordSprung WordPress Upgrade Service.

Anyone who is already subscribed to one of our upgrade packages has already been upgraded to WordPress 3.5.1.  If you’d like to make sure your site is always up to date, please check out out WordSprung WordPress Maintenance Packages.

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WordPress 3.5, “Elvin”, was released on December 11, 2012 and is a major release that adds:

• A new color picker
• A new default theme, Twenty Twelve
• A refresh of the styles of the dashboard
• Updates for Retina-readiness with beautiful high resolution graphics
• Streamlining other sections of the admin area

As always, we highly recommend that you keep your WordPress installation, WordPress themes and WordPress plugins up to date to ensure that you’re running the most secure and feature rich version of WordPress.

If you need assistance with upgrading, please schedule your WordPress upgrade today via our WordSprung WordPress Upgrade Service.

Anyone who is already subscribed to one of our upgrade packages has already been upgraded to WordPress 3.5.  If you’d like to make sure your site is always up to date, please check out out WordSprung WordPress Maintenance Packages.

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Now through December 31st, 2012 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “WINTER12-WSHED” (no quotes).

If you’re unfamiliar with OIOpublisher, it is a PHP based ad platform with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. It allows you to easily serve advertising on your blog or website and keep 100% of the revenue you bring in. For those of you using WordPress, it includes a plugin that allows for easy integration. And if you need consulting help setting it up, please contact us.

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Now through November 30th, 2012 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “WINTER12-WSHED” (no quotes).

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Disclosure:We are an affiliate of OIOPublisher, but we use the product ourselves and can vouch that it’s an excellent product.

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Now through October 31st, 2012 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “GREEN-WSHED” (no quotes).

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Now through September 30th, 2012 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “GREEN-WSHED” (no quotes).

If you’re unfamiliar with OIOpublisher, it is a PHP based ad platform with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. It allows you to easily serve advertising on your blog or website and keep 100% of the revenue you bring in. For those of you using WordPress, it includes a plugin that allows for easy integration. And if you need consulting help setting it up, please contact us.

Disclosure:We are an affiliate of OIOPublisher, but we use the product ourselves and can vouch that it’s an excellent product.

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WordPress 3.4.2 was released on September 6, 2012 and maintenance and security update which addresses 21 bugs with version 3.4.1, which include:

• Fix some issues with older browsers in the administration area.
• Fix an issue where a theme may not preview correctly, or its screenshot may not be displayed.
• Improve plugin compatibility with the visual editor.
• Address pagination problems with some category permalink structures.
• Avoid errors with both oEmbed providers and trackbacks.
• Prevent improperly sized header images from being uploaded.

Version 3.4.2 also fixes a few security issues and contains some security hardening. The vulnerabilities included potential privilege escalation and a bug that affects multisite installs with untrusted users. These issues were discovered and fixed by the WordPress security team.

As always, we recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you are subscribed to our WordPress Upgrade Service or our WordPress Website Maintenance Package, your website will be upgraded shortly.

If you need assistance with upgrading, please schedule your WordPress upgrade today via our WordSprung WordPress Upgrade Service.

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Question: How do I add bullet points in my WordPress sidebar?

Answer: In your theme’s style sheet (the CSS file) you need to add the following code:

div#sidebar ul li:before {
content: "\2022 \0020";
}

Without getting too technical, “2022″ is the HEX value for a bullet point and “0020″ is the HEX value for a space.  The CSS is telling the browser to disaply the bullet point before the list items.

Note: Depending on your theme setup you may need to adjust the CSS selector for this to work.

If you have any WordPress releated questions, please ask us. And if you need WordPress assistance, please contact us.

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WordPress 3.4.1 was released on June 27, 2012 and maintenance and security update which addresses 18 bugs with version 3.4, including:

• Fixes an issue where a theme’s page templates were sometimes not detected.
• Addresses problems with some category permalink structures.
• Better handling for plugins or themes loading JavaScript incorrectly.
• Adds early support for uploading images on iOS 6 devices.
• Allows for a technique commonly used by plugins to detect a network-wide activation.
• Better compatibility with servers running certain versions of PHP (5.2.4, 5.4) or with uncommon setups (safe mode, open_basedir), which had caused warnings or in some cases prevented emails from being sent.

Version 3.4.1 also fixes a few security issues and contains some security hardening. The vulnerabilities included potential information disclosure as well as an bug that affects multisite installs with untrusted users. These issues were discovered and fixed by the WordPress security team.

As always, we recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you need assistance with upgrading, please schedule your WordPress upgrade today via our WordSprung WordPress Upgrade Service.

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WordPress 3.4, “Green”, was released on June 13, 2012 and is a major release that adds:

• Twitter embeds
• improvements to theme customization
• improvements to custom headers
• improvements image captions
• hundreds of under-the-hood improvements for WordPress developers

As always, we highly recommend that you keep your WordPress installation, WordPress themes and WordPress plugins up to date to ensure that you’re running the most secure and feature rich version of WordPress.

If you need assistance with upgrading, please schedule your WordPress upgrade today via our WordSprung WordPress Upgrade Service.

And if you’d like to make sure your site is always up to date, please check out out WordSprung WordPress Maintenance Packages.

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In this round of social media reads we have another excellent batch of posts to get the wheels turning.

• 12 Important Steps some Bloggers Forget (Jeff Bullas)
• 13 Tools to Simplify Your Social Media Marketing (Social Media Examiner)
• 15 Blogging Lessons From Foodies (DKS Systems)
• 22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue [Infographic] (Copyblogger)
• Hoo-ah: How the US Army Has Become a Social Media Leader (Read Write Web)
• Influence: The Best Argument for Embracing Social Media (Kruse Control)
• Pinterest Takes A Small Step Toward Fighting Copyright With Opt-Out Meta Tag  (Marketing Land)
• The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors (Search Engine Land)
• The Seductive Art of Blog Commenting (Unmemorable Title)
• When Social Media Goes Bad: 7 Guidelines For What To Do In A Social Media Crisis (Heidi Cohen)

If you have any social media reads that you’d like to suggest, please contact us or Tweet us @watershedstudio.

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In this round of social media reads we have another excellent batch of posts to get the wheels turning.

• 5 Essential Keys To Successful Blogging (Contently)
• 5 Rules To Turn Your Local Business Into A ‘Social’ Business (Search Engine Land)
• 8 Great Ways To Use QR Codes For Marketing (Marketing Land)
• 9 Ways to Make Your Marketing Analytics Actionable (Hubspot)
• 10 Ways Social Media is Transforming Our World (Jeff Bullas)
• 56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest (Copyblogger)
• Facebook Deprecating 50+ Page Insights Metrics – Are You Ready? (Search Engine Watch)
• Facebook to Release Timeline for Brands This Month (Ad Age)
• How Much Is Too Much Self-Promotion? (Round Peg)
• How to Make Your Content Go Viral (Social Media Today)

If you have any social media reads that you’d like to suggest, please contact us or Tweet us @watershedstudio.

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In this round of social media reads we have another excellent batch of posts to get the wheels turning.

• 7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Wildly Successful Guest Post (Copyblogger)
• 7 Terrific Twitter Tips To Use Today (Small Business Trends)
• 26 Tips for Writing Great Blog Posts (Social Media Examiner)
• 105 Tips To Make Your Blog Rock (Jeff Bullas)
• Build Your Links the Right Way (SEO Positive)
• How to Build a Traffic-siphoning Marketing Funnel (Pro Blogger)
• How to Create a Social Media Editorial Calendar (Search Engine Watch)
• Pinterest Drives more Traffic than LinkedIn and Google Plus (Jeff Bullas)
• The “New” SEO Secret Weapon (Copyblogger)
• Facebook Timelines for Brands? Time to Start Thinking Inside the Box. (Marketing Pilgrim)

If you have any social media reads that you’d like to suggest, please contact us or Tweet us @watershedstudio.

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Here are your hand picked top ten social media reads for the week. Enjoy.

• 5 Questions that Are Killing Your Blog (MENG)
• 6 Powerful Guest Post Tactics that No One’s Talking About (Pro Blogger)
• 7 Fundamentals of Successful Blogs (Smedio)
• 9 Tips for Integrating Social Media on Your Website (Social Media Examiner)
• 10 Things A Brand Should Never Do On Twitter (Social Penguin)
• Content Chemistry: The Periodic Table of Content (Orbit Media Studios)
• How to Recover From a Social Media Hangover (Copyblogger)
• Why Build a Fan Page If You’re Going To Abandon It? ( Your Social Media Mogul)
• Why Pinterest is 2012′s hottest website (CNN)
• Why Would You Have 50 Twitter Accounts For Your Company? (Jeff Bullas)

If you have any social media reads that you’d like to suggest, please contact us or Tweet us @watershedstudio.

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Now through February 29th, 2012 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “L2012-WSHED” (no quotes).

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WordPress 3.3.1 was released on January 3, 2012 and maintenance and security update.

As always, we recommend upgrading as soon as possible.

If you need assistance with upgrading, please schedule your WordPress upgrade today via our WordSprung WordPress Upgrade Service.

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Now through January 31st, 2012 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “CRINGLE-WSHED” (no quotes).

If you’re unfamiliar with OIOpublisher, it is a PHP based ad platform with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. It allows you to easily serve advertising on your blog or website and keep 100% of the revenue you bring in. For those of you using WordPress, it includes a plugin that allows for easy integration. And if you need consulting help setting it up, please contact us.

Disclosure:We are an affiliate of OIOPublisher, but we use the product ourselves and can vouch that it’s an excellent product.

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WordPress 3.3, “Sonny”, was released on December 12, 2011 and is a major release that adds:

• drag-and-drop uploader
• hover menus for the navigation
• a new toolbar
• improved co-editing support
• Tumblr importer
• pointer tips for new features included in each update
• revamped help tabs throughout the interface
• improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support

If you need assistance with upgrading, please schedule your WordPress upgrade today via our WordSprung WordPress Upgrade Service.

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Now through December 31st, 2011 you can purchase OIOpublisher* for just $37 (normally $47) by using coupon code “CRINGLE-WSHED” (no quotes).

If you’re unfamiliar with OIOpublisher, it is a PHP based ad platform with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. It allows you to easily serve advertising on your blog or website and keep 100% of the revenue you bring in. For those of you using WordPress, it includes a plugin that allows for easy integration. And if you need consulting help setting it up, please contact us.

Disclosure:We are an affiliate of OIOPublisher, but we use the product ourselves and can vouch that it’s an excellent product.

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If you’ve logged into Twitter in the past few days you may have noticed some changes, most notably the addition of the new Twitter Activity Stream.

At first glance my thought was, “Cool, I can see who the people I follow have followed and can more easily follow new people”.  In addition, I can see what tweets the people that I’m following have favorited, which is also another great way to keep tabs on potentially relevant information.

But as I thought more about this I began to wonder if this was such a good idea.  Do the benefits outweigh the potential downfalls, specifically in regards to privacy.

One reason I prefer Twitter over Facebook is the fact that it takes a little more effort to stalk someone (yes, stalkers are a concern of mine, especially for my children…thank you newscasters!).  Sure, I can go through individual’s timeline’s, check their public lists, view their favorite tweets and see who they’re following & who is following them, but now I don’t have to. I have the activity stream!

For my own personal and business Twitter accounts I don’t have an issue with the Twitter activity stream, but then again, I’m pretty cautious and intentional with what I post.  But many people that I know are not and that concerns me.

My proposal would be for Twitter to have an option for people to opt out of their activity being shown (beyond having a completely private Twitter account).  And the default of this option should be to turn it off unless someone specifically turns it on for their account.

What do you think?

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