Adhesive 3.4.0 released

30 November 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments

Adhesive 3.4.0, a WordPress plugin that allows one to easily mark posts "sticky," is now released. Sticky posts always appear at the top of the page when several posts are displayed.

The most important changes to Adhesive in version 3.4.0 are:

  • Compatibility with WordPress 2.6.5.
  • No longer breaks the native paging functionality in WordPress.
  • Removes all Adhesive-added rows to the wp_postmeta table on plugin deactivation
  • All configuration options and the admin panel menu have been removed. Adhesive simply makes posts sticky—there's really nothing to configure.
  • Solo file functionality has been removed

Get Adhesive 3.4.0.

Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.

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WordPress 2.6.1 released yesterday

16 August 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments

WordPress 2.6.1 was released yesterday. This is a maintenance release only, and, if you're happy using 2.6, you can continue to use it.

Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.

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Apple more vulnerable than Microsoft?!?

3 August 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments

I found it surprising that in a new study authored by IBM, Apple was rated the number one software most vulnerable to attack, ahead of Microsoft!

I also found it curious that Webmonkey's post (where I read about the study) was titled "Apple, Microsoft Top List of Most Vulnerable Software," which, although true, implies that Microsoft is number two. This isn't true: Microsoft is number three, after Joomla!

Unfortunately, the report notes two worrisome trends:

  • The number of vulnerabilities in our software is increasing.
  • Attacks have largely shifted from operating systems to web applications, hence the inclusion of Joomla!, Wordpress and Drupal.

Via Webmonkey. Read the entire report in PDF format.

Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.

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WordPress 2.6 now available

15 July 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | No comments

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 all about the updates at the WordPress blog and download 2.6 here.

My favorite new feature in WP 2.6 is support for Gears: WP uses the LocalServer module to speed up the loading of pages by several seconds!

I just finished upgrading myself!

Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.

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