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Dec 1 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Adhesive 3.4.0 has been released! This latest version of the WordPress "sticky" post plugin is compatible with WordPress 2.6.5 and no longer breaks WordPress's native paging functionality.
Jul 15 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Version 2.6 "Tyner," named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
Read about all the updates at the WordPress blog and download 2.6 here.
Apr 9 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Just got finished with my first Wordpress 2.5 upgrade and I'm happy to report that everything (except a !@%$#%@ spotty internet connection which made the process take at least three times at long!) went smoothly. Contrary to my expectation, none of the plugins broke!
The admin interface certainly is different—it's better, but still odd after so many years with the old one. However, I love the new one click plugin auto-upgrade feature. It downloaded, unzipped, and installed the latest version of Akismet without any problems.
Update 2008-04-06: I also like the new "modal" window approach to file upload. While the old file upload tab on the "Write Page" page was definitely usable thanks to an <iframe> and JavaScript, the interface was still a bit clunky. The new UI is definitely faster and slicker.
Update 2008-04-07: While doing another upgrade (from 2.0.9 to 2.5) I broke my first plugin: Category Visibility. However, since I'm not sure what version (other than the 2.0 series) it was last compatible with, this may not be a 2.5 issue.
Update 2008-04-07: It appears that query_posts() (or at least the way I've always used it!) is broken in 2.5. More on this to follow…
Update 2008-04-09: query_posts() is not broken, but the Adhesive plugin is.
May 14 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
If you're using the WordTube extension for WordPress , haven't been hacked yet, and haven't heard about the remote code execution vulnerability, then you're very lucky and should read on.
The following critical problem affects every version of WordTube prior to 1.44. From Secunia:
M.Hasran Addahroni has reported a vulnerability in the wordTube plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or to compromise a vulnerable system.
Input passed to the "wpPATH" parameter in wordtube-button.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external resources.
Upgrade to version 1.44 immediately!
May 10 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 20 comments
Adhesive is a WordPress plugin that allows one to easily mark certain posts as "sticky." Sticky posts always appear at the top of the page when WordPress displays several posts, but if more than one post is sticky, the post with the latest post time will appear topmost.
Adhesive was originally written by Owen Winkler and available at http://www.redalt.com/downloads/. Unfortunately, it is no longer available, and the last version by Owen doesn't play well with WordPress 2.1. So I fixed it and am making Adhesive available here.
Simply follow the download link below, unzip the download and drop it into your WordPress plugins directory. Then activate Adhesive via the plugin administration panel.
To make a post sticky, edit it and either check the "Sticky" checkbox located in the right column below "Keep this post private" or in "Custom Fields" add key sticky with a value of 1.
Please note that if you deactivate Adhesive, all posts marked sticky will revert back to regular status. To upgrade this plugin and preserve posts' sticky status, just overwrite the old Adhesive files with the new ones.
→ Adhesive 3.4.0 for WordPress 2.6.5. Last updated 29 November 2008. Release notes.
Adhesive has been tested under WordPress 2.6.5 in Firefox 3.0.4, Google Chrome 0.4.154.25, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9.62 and Safari 3.2.1 running on Windows Vista. If something isn't working right, please leave a comment.
