We have choosen to disable Atom Publishing Protocol and the variety of XML-RPC protocols by default as they expose a potential to be a security risk.
Peter Westwood, a Lead Developer for WordPress, revealed they are making the default install more secure. This will go a long way to making WordPress more secure. If your security consciousness has the dial tuned closer to the paranoid end of the spectrum, then check out Blog Security’s WordPress Security Whitepaper, which lists out many things you can do to lock down your self-hosted blog, and keep out the baddies.
The title says it all. A pretty lively discussion about WordPress vs. TypePad. It even riled a TypePad VP up so much that he made an a$$ of himself in the comments. WordPress FTW.
This may be the biggest upgrade to WordPress since the jump from 1.5 to 2.0. There are numerous changes on the front-end and the back-end. The admin panel has probably seen the most radical changes, as it has been completely redesigned from the ground up. And they redesigned wordpress.org to boot! So that’s why it took 6 months for v2.5 to come out…
A quick round up of the new features:
Multi-File Uploading
Upgrade Plugins with a single click
Photo Galleries
A Dashboard you can Customize
Salted Passwords and Encrypted Cookies to increase the security of the project
A Media Library of all your uploaded assets
A WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess up your code (zomg!)
Protection against Concurrent Post Editing
Writing in Full Screen Mode
And a search engine that covers both posts AND pages (long the domain of a plugin)
You can read all about it in the official announcement.
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