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Official Google App Engine for WordPress Plugin Released

Google App Engine, the cloud computing service platform has recently started support for PHP. WordPress is probably the most popular PHP based software used, so it is no surprise that an official WordPress plugin for Google App Engine was released. The plugin is mainly useful for functionality like sending email using the Mail App API and also uploading and serving media from Google Cloud Service.

This plugin is not meant for general WordPress users as they will need to know how to deploy PHP applications on Google App Engine. The plugin will over-ride some core WordPress functionality, mainly the email and media upload functionality.

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The plugin’s code has also been uploaded to GitHub.

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WordPress 3.0.4 Available : Important Security Update

According to WordPress.org a new security update is available(WordPress version 3.0.4), its a very important update that should be applied immediately. It fixes core security bug in the HTML sanitation library, called KSES. This release is a critical says Matt Mullenweg.

He also emphasis to update this release due to the holiday season is going on, should not be taken lightly. Its not a Christmas or Holiday release.

If your interested to see the change log you can take a look here and you can also review the update. The security bug is discovered by Mauro Gentile and Jon Cave (duck_) and alerted the WordPress team to these XSS vulnerabilities.

If you have no idea how to update it you can refer the link that will show you the update process in detail.

Download Link : WordPress version 3.0.4

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Coming Up – Meet The WordPress Makers

Many Developers might be interested to know, who is involved in taking WordPress decision and how the open source project is structured in general. Lets see what Jane Wells has to say about it.

By Jane Wells WordPress is a meritocracy, it means that anyone can get involved, and a combination of the quality of someone’s contributions and their level of interest and time commitment will determine how much influence they have over decisions.

They have several levels of contributes for the WordPress application development, that includes full-time developers and casual contributors.

The WordPress team is planning to come up with second annual WordPress core leadership meetup in January 2011, they will have a video town hall at some point during their time together. During these days he will be posting profiles of the core developers who will be at the meetup. After that he will be branching out and posting about other contributors, including developers, designers, forum moderators, etc.

If you have any questions you can submit it to them to answer then in the forum thread What Should 2011 Hold for WordPress? To have a little idea how all these people fit together and how decisions are made, you can check out the presentation held WordCamp Portland in October on How WordPress Decisions Get Made.

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WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 is available for testing

If you are a developer or a WordPress geek, the you might be interested in downloading WordPress 3.1 beta 1 version. This version is expected to have bugs and is being made available only for testing purposes. Hence, do not upgrade to 3.1 beta 1 on a live site. Try it out on a test server.

WordPress 3.1 Beta 1

  • Some of the changes to watch out with WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 will be to Post Formats, Theme Search, Admin Bar and much more. See complete list here.
  • As I mentioned in this post earlier, this is meant only for testing and not to be used with a live website. Once bugs are found and fixed the version will update overnight.
  • If you have found a bug or any issue with the new feature you can bring it up at their alpha/beta forum.
  • WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 does not work with BuddyPress as yet. It should be fixed in time.

The final version of WordPress 3.1 should be out in a couple of months. It is slated to release by the end of this year or early next year.

Do drop in your comments.

Link: WordPress 3.1 Beta

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WordPress 3.0 Final Release is out!

After a long wait, and so many beta n RC, final release of wordpress 3.0 is out and available for download. Like other wordpress major releases, this release is also codenamed after a jazz artist, in this case Thelonious.

You can check official video of this release below:

If you are on WordPress MU, DO NOT run update on live site. There are some changes with merger of WordPress and WordPress MU, that may break your themes and plugins.

We are already using wordpress 3.0 beta and RC releases from last few days. Now with final testing with WordPress 3.0,  we hope to upgrade rtBlogs network live server to WordPress 3.0 on this weekend.  🙂

Just in case, if you are wondering about download count this one of the most awaited wordpress release will touch, keep an eye on this page!

Any guesses on how much this download count will cross? 😉

Links: Download WordPress 3.0 | Check Download Counter

Do read: How to Upgrade WordPress to WordPress 3.0

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Download WordPress 3.0 RC3

Last time we talked about the release of WordPress 3.0 RC1 and now it’s good news for those who are waiting for final release of WordPress 3.0. WordPress released the final release candidate WordPress 3.0 RC3 before the launch of WordPress 3.0 final.

This news is big for most of the WordPress users as every one is aiming to get WordPress 3.0 which will club WordPress MU and WordPress under one banner.

WordPress 3.0 is going to get some fantastic feature which we will cover in upcoming posts. Though for now if you wish to try WordPress 3.0 RC3, you can download WordPress 3.0 RC3 from this link.

Do let us know are you going to install WordPress 3.0 or you going to use the same version of WordPress 2.9?

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Download WordPress 3.0 Beta 2

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WordPress just upgraded it’s WordPress 3.0 beta 2 from earlier WordPress Beta 1 version with 2 improvements.

  • Revised menu user interface
  • Changes to the WordPress exporter and importer to make it more flexible

People who have been waiting to try new WordPress 3.0 need to wait for a while to get the latest stable version. The new WordPress 3.0 will let you manage many WordPress blog from single WordPress dashboard. In nutshell WordPress 3.o is WordPress MU compatible.

You can read more about WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 and download it from official page. If you would like to try out WordPress beta version prior  to stable release you can use WordPress beta tester plugin. A detailed guide is here about Upgrading WordPress to the latest beta version.

Do let us know if you are going to upgrade your WordPress to beta version or you going to wait for stable version of WordPress 3.0?