WordPress 2.5 Vulnerability Requires WordPress 2.5.1 Upgrade

Posted by Snap! on April 27th, 2008

As you may have noticed, we are missing a few blog posts (nothing significant) and some comments as a result of a recent database issue which is being investigated. Just so you are warned, multi-author WordPress install such as our own site should not be running version 2.5 for the reason we all have come to know as CVE 2008 1930. Upgrading to version 2.5.1 now will save you a lot of hassle, trust me us this.

We believe a recent attack on our site due to that WordPress vulnerability was responsible for the issues we encountered lately. We assure you that we have taken all the steps necessary to rectify it. Although the BBPress powered WP News Forum was linked, we were able to restore all the fields and posts without any loss of data.

Here are some symptoms and diagnosis for the issue:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172004
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168964

We will post a detailed step by step correction process once we confirm the issue was indeed related. Although having a backup of your database from pre-2.5 might help, we feel it can be accomplished without any backup.

Sunny has a post detailing some WordPress 2.5 troubleshooting tips!

Tagged: Tutorials, Web Tools, WordPress, WordPress 2.5, wpSnap News, wpsnap

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Posted by Snap! on April 23rd, 2008

As you may have noticed, we are behind in updating these pages. Without making any excuses, we will strive to bring the pending themes to current as quickly as possible. To facilitate it, we decided to preview 12 themes in the WP Themes section instead of the usual 6. This will remain in its current state until we are able to bring the pending themes to zero (or close to).

Thanks for you patience, a special thanks to our friends who are volunteering to help us out and continued support of WP Snap!

Tagged: Blog Posts, General, New WP Themes, WordPress, wpSnap News, wpsnap

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Posted by Eric on December 31st, 2007

Our efforts would be to update the “New WordPress Themes” section daily.

We will try to have 6 different contributor’s themes on each page. For example: If you upload three themes at one time, one of your theme will show up on the front page on the first day, and the remaining themes you upload will be carried forward to the following days. This will ensure maximum front page exposure to every contributor.

Unlike in the past, at least one of the link from each post will have a “do follow” to the theme author’s site.

Please note that your demo, or URI link(s) must include target=”_blank”

Please also limit the size of the theme image to 400px by 300px

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Posted by Snap! on December 27th, 2007

These free patterns from Tennessee based designer Travis Beckham are a treat!
squid fingers pattern
There are over 150 of these classic designs on his site Squid Fingers. Check em out.

Tagged: Design, Design Inspiration, Fractal, Free Downloads, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Resources, Graphic Designers, Graphics, Inspiration, Nature, Resources, Squid Finger, Travis Beckham, Web Design, Web Tools, free, wpSnap News, wpsnap

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Posted by Snap! on December 6th, 2007

new theme switcher plugin Here’s a neat little plugin by Vladimir that allows WordPress designers and admin’s alike to test drive a new theme while the users/visitors of your site still enjoy and experience your “current theme”.

Of course your cache needs to be disabled while you are testing, but sure beats the old method of using Theme Switcher plugin with /?wptheme=newtheme to switch back and forth.

Give this plugin a test drive!