WordPress 2.6.2 was released yesterday and includes a patch of a potential security hole and fixes a number of bugs.  If you allow open registration on your blog upgrading is highly encouraged.  If you do not allow open registration on your blog upgrading is still recommended.

If you need assistance with upgrading or have any questions regarding WordPress, please contact us.

We are often asked what the differences of the various user roles in WordPress are so we thought we’d give the very quick rundown.

• Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
• Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
• Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
• Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts
• Subscriber - Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.

Also, note that some plugins take advantage of the user roles so you’ll need to consult each individual plugin to see if that’s the case and if so, see what the user role differences are for that particular plugin.

More detailed information can be found on the WordPress Codex.

The WordPress Category Posts plugin, version 2.0, has been released and is now available for download via the WordPress Extend Plugin Directory.  WordPress Category Posts is a plugin for WordPress that creates a linked list of the posts in a specific category.

The WordPress Flag Comments Plugin, version 1.7, has now been publicly released. WordPress Flag Comments Plugin allows readers to flag WordPress comments as inappropriate and then allow an administrator control on how to handle that.  Please pick up the most recent version via the WordPress Extend Plugins Directory.

The initial development of the WordPress Flag Comments Plugin was sponsored by Fox News and can currently be seen in use on Alisyn Camerot’s Alisyn in the Greenroom blog.

As a formal announcement, Watershed Studio’s work on our WordPress Versioning Plugin has been discontinued since this functionality is now part of the WordPress core as of version 2.6 which was released on July 14, 2008.  Kudos to the WordPress developers for adding Post Revisions to the core!