If you haven’t done so yet, make sure to upgrade your WordPress installation(s) to version 2.8.5. The latest version was released yesterday and has a handful of security fixes. A few worth noting from the WordPress development blog include:

• A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
• Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
• Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
• Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

As always, it’s important to upgrade as soon as possible to give yourself the best protection against attacks and hackers. So make it a goal today to get all of your blogs/websites upgraded to the newest version!

If you haven’t checked out our WordPress tutorials yet, you’ll notice that we’ve created a bunch of video tutorials to help you with WordPress. The topics we covered include topics like themes, monetization, and plugins. We’re currently adding as many videos as we can to our collection and hope to continue in this manner.

However, we are currently on the lookout for suggestions as to what we should cover in our videos. Are there any things that you struggle with when it comes to WordPress? Do you have a certain plugin that you can’t seem to figure out? Perhaps you’ve downloaded a theme but cannot get it to work?

Regardless of what the problem is, we want to hear from you. So please leave any suggestions or questions you have as a comment on this post. We will then try our best to create a high quality video that answers your question (or solves your problem).

If you haven’t done so yet, we highly recommend upgrading to version 2.8.3 of WordPress. It’s a security release, which will fix some security issues from the previous version.

We’ve done the upgrade on all of our blogs without any issues, so it appears to be stable.

Have you noticed the little yellow bar in your WordPress dashboard? Version 2.8.1 was officially released yesterday and it includes a few bug fixes as well as some changed to make it more secure.

A little over a week ago, WordPress publicly released version 2.8 of their blogging platform. They managed to fix over 700 bugs so If you haven’t upgraded yet, we highly encourage you to do so.