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bbpress 1.0-alpha-2 released

Oct 8th

Posted by Stealth Employed in Plugins

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Just received notice that bbPress 1.0 alpha 2 has been released to the general public for download. The next installation in the bbPress alpha series introduces new features and fixes most of the issues raised by testers from the previous release.

A lot of the features were covered in a previous post. You can view the changes in bbPress between 1.0-alpha-1 and 1.0-alpha-2, as well as the changes that have been made to BackPress between revision 109 and 161.

The XML-RPC functionality now built into bbPress 1.0 alpha has made possible a new plugin for WordPress called “bbPress Live“.

bbPress Live allows the display of information from a bbPress 1.0 forum from inside a WordPress blog.

Specifically, it provides two new widgets:

  • bbPress Forum List – Provides a list or table of forums
  • bbPress Latest Topics – Provides a list or table of the latest topics

Each widget can be used multiple times, and configured individually.

There are also two functions for use in themes. These functions return a raw php array which can be manipulated inside the theme:

  • bbpress_live_get_forums() – Provides an array of forums
  • bbpress_live_get_topics() – Provides an array of the latest topics

bbPress Live can only connect to a bbPress forum running bbPress with a version of 1.0 or higher. The bbPress blog must have XML-RPC enabled in it’s settings.

**Update: if you can’t download bbPress 1.0 Alpha 2 from the regular download site you can get it here http://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/1.0-alpha-2.

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WordPress 2.5.1 Is Now Available

Apr 25th

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WordPress 2.5.1 is now available for download at wordpress.org. This WordPress release is full of tweaks and bug fixes for WordPress 2.5.

It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.

In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes. If you are interested only in the security fixes, you can download these corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php. Replace your existing copies of these files with these new copies.

If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:

  • Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
  • Better performance for those who have many categories
  • Media Uploader fixes
  • An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
  • Widget Administration fixes
  • Various usability improvements
  • Layout fixes for IE

Read the full article about WordPress 2.5.1 here.

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