Wordpress Theme Directory

Sweet! After a long time being “abandoned”, the Wordpress theme directory is back. But it’s not the same old theme directory like it used to be. The new Wordpress theme directory is now moved from http://themes.wordpress.net to a new location plus an easier way to upload your Wordpress theme to the directory.

The new theme directory is now under Wordpress Extend menu, which is the same location where Wordpress plugin directory is located. Read more…

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If you haven’t know yet, there’s a new Wordpress version released today, Wordpress 2.6. The release is month quicker than it was supposed to, but hey..the quicker the better, right?

The new Wordpress 2.6 doesn’t  just fix some bug issues, but it also comes with some new cool features that will make our blogging experience even better! Read more…

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Today, I got a Drupal Security Announcement email from the Drupal team. In the email, the team  stated that they found multiple vulnerabitilies and weaknesses in Drupal. But neither of these vulnerabilities are readily exploitable.

Some of the vulnerabilities found includes XSS, Cross Site Request Forgeries, Session Fixation and SQL Injection.

These vulnerabilities and weakness affects all 5.x and 6.x Drupal branches, and it’s strongly advice that you update your Drupal powered site to the latest version. Read more…

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Today, the Joomla core team release Joomla 1.5.4, this is just a  normal maintainance release. This version will fix several issues including some minor security issues, bug fixes and add more echancements.

Security Issues Fixed

• Added security to file caching to prevent unauthorized access to cached pages
• User Redirect Spam fix
• htaccess global variable security fix when SEF is enabled

Read more…

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After a year of development, the Drupal core team finally released Drupal 6.0 stable version. This released marks a new beginning for Drupal and its communities. Drupal is known for its performance, scalability and flexibility.

According to Drupal team, Drupal 6 features a lot of improvements in this award winning open source CMS. Read more…

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Just a few weeks after the official release of Joomla 1.5, a few days ago the Joomla core team announced a new patch for Joomla 1.5.x and Joomla 1.0.x branch. There are several security issues and bug fixed in these release, so it is very recommended that you upgrade your Joomla powered site to using the latest version available. Read more…

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A few days ago, Movable Type (one of the most famous blogging platform) released their 4.1 stable open source version  to the crowds. In case you haven’t noticed, besides the commercial license Moveable Type is also available as an open source software. That means you can use, modify and redistribute it for any purpose. Read more…

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Today mark a new day to all Joomla community. After a long delay the new Joomla 1.5 stable finally released. Joomla 1.5 is fully developed from stratch, this not a patch or security update version, this is the new begining for Joomla.

You can see a lot of difference between Joomla 1.5 with the previous Joomla 1.0.x, the code was build from scratch, a new set of template for the frontend and backend of Joomla 1.5.

Joomla 1.5 frontend

Programmers and designers will be happy with Joomla 1.5 flexibility. Programmers can build Joomla extention easier with a set of new API, while designers will have more chances to create beautiful templates with the new template system. Read more…

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Let say that you want to have or  create a splash screen page on your Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Wordpress where users can choose what what language their prefer, or you just want to put an a huge image to greet your visitors. And suddently you’re wondering “How on earth I’m supposed to do that kind of thing?”.

Well, don’t be sad now because it’s not difficult to that. All you need is to place an extra command in your .htaccess. Just add this line of code anywhere in your .htaccess file. Read more…

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Joomla

Today, the Joomla core team released Joomla 1.0.14 RC1 code name Daybreak. This release fixed several security issues in the previous Joomla 1.0.x version. The core team advice all site powered by Joomla 1.0.x to be upgraded with Joomla 1.0.14 RC1.

When the team released Joomla 1.0.13 they said that Joomla 1.0.13 will be the last version of 1.0.x before they finally release the new Joomla 1.5. They will only release a new version if there was a major security issues in Joomla 1.0.13. Read more…

Popularity: 9% [?]