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.

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!

WordPress 2.6.1 was released a few weeks ago and includes a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements.  This is not a required upgrade from 2.6 unless you’re having issues with 2.6 working correctly on your server.

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