The new version of the wordpress is out, for those using the wp 2.5 the upgrade is painless, no major changes in skins and the plugin system. Here is a list of the new features

• Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits.
• Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging.
• Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
• Theme Previews: See it before your audience does
• Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.
• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• Customizable default avatars.
• You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.
• Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
• Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
• Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”
• You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.
• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
• Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
• Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.

Here is a brief video tour of 2.6, it doesn’t show everything but it’s a good start to see what’s new

WP Explorer is an easy way to list directories and files on your server. Through a simple shortcode you can transform your posts and pages to file browsers.

Features
- Easy Configuration.
- Easy modification since you have control over templates from the options page.
- Exclude files, folders, extensions from listing.
- Protection from listing directories outside the specified one.
- Hot-linking protection through htaccess.
- Pretty links.
- 100% Ready for translations.
- Ability to include file version through a specific filename format. Read the full post

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. 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

Secret lives of blogs

Since 2.5 your wp-config.php file allows a new constant called SECRET_KEY which basically is meant to introduce a little permanent randomness into the cryptographic functions used for cookies in WordPress. You can visit this link we set up to get a unique secret key for your config file. (It’s unique and random on every page load.) Having this line in your config file helps secure your blog.

The main reason i selected wordpress to power the new T3 was the pretty big plugin directory of wordpress. The plugin directory as i write this post serves more than 2018 plugins with 4.000.000 downloads. That’s pretty impressive but expected from the #1 blogtool in the world. Developers and authors deserve many credits but i can’t deny most of them are crap in my opinion always. After hours of searching, browsing, inspecting the plugins over the wp directory for weeks, i am left with a negative impression.

My bad impression comes from the fact that most of the plugin authors never heard the word “performance”. Let’s get serious wordpress plugin system is cool but for Pit’s shake the memory usage, is super hight. 9-11MB average with only 10 plugins ? Yeap that’s right these are the numbers in my case. People will say it’s not much but when you see some of the most successful php products out there like vbulletin or IPB to use only the half of that of wordpress makes you wonder. Maybe it’s me, i have adopted a way of thinking that says performance must be balanced with features. Read the full post

There are many ways to do that. You can wake up one day and say screw my old site move on and leave everything behind including your precious content. That’s probably the easiest way to do it. In my case study i decided to leave behind the forums, the ratings, the downloads, and some other areas which were pretty much useless to me. But i wanted to bring into the new site all the user base, the pages with the categories and all the comments.

The biggest problem in opinion are the pages, you can easily import the text from seditio. The hard part is to import personal file space. I decided not to involve with that, after all my site had only 70 pages, no big deal but some other people might not be able to do that. For me with my 70 pages i needed 3-4 hours to re-upload images, downloads etc.

The script will import for you:

1. The users, usernames, passwords, website, email, registration date
2. The pages, if you ignore the pfs bbcode everything else works including my geshi highlight hack
3. The only extra from the pages that has been imported are the views, you can later install the plug wp-views. The alias, downloads, ratings, keys, extra fields are gone.
4. The comments, not much to say here except that all bbcodes are stripped
5. The categories, everything except the hierarchy will be imported with no problem.

Requirements – How To Use

1. Minimum php4, mysql 4
2. All versions of seditio should work, but only v121 was tested.
3. It has been tested only for WordPress 2.5
4. You must use the same database as seditio when you install the wordpress.
5. Upload the file seditio.php to the wp-admin/import
6. Through the Dashboard navigate to Manges -> Import and select from seditio
7. During the first step you must specify the table prefix for your seditio installation e.g. sed_
8. Moreover you must specify the user id of the first admin of your seditio site e.g. 1 Unless you want your new wp Admin Account to loose the registration date and the ownership of your seditio pages.
9. Follow the next buttons and in 4-5 clicks and you are done.
10. I have no idea how well this importer can do in large sites but in my case the whole procedure with 350 users 70 pages 20 categories and 65 comments finished in 10 secs.

If you are ok with all that you can give it a go, but I CAN’T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR SITE IS DESTROYED. If you want to try it do it on your localhost, after all i spend only a few hours just to import the absolutely necessary to my needs. Download Seditio To WordPress Importer v0.1

My next problem was how could i save some of my old sections like Sed/LDU Tags HQ and the SED/LDU Files DB. Obviously you must study i can’t say it’s hard to write to plugin for wordpress but for me that i have got used to sedito system the beginning was hard. The wordpress documentation is cool but not super cool for devs. I guess if you want to call yourself a dev you must study yourself. I did my homework LDU Tags HQ , LDU Repository, Seditio Tags HQ, Seditio Repository.