Wordpress 2.6 Tyner is now available for download.  Matt is happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available. Wordpress Version 2.6 “Tyner” was named after jazz pianist McCoy Tyner.

Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:

• 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.

Below is a brief video tour of version 2.6, it’s worth to watch:

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Wordpress 2.6 Tyner is now available for download

Email message below quoted:

Hello,

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program. We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate your patience during this transition and here are some alternative options to consider:

* Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers
to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. For further details, please visit: www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.
* AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace the referral ad units with standard AFC ad units.

If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August. We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is retired:

* Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your ad space.
* Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create and save all reports related to the referrals program on your desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign information

Why is this happening?
We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term.  For this reason, we will be retiring
the AdSense Referrals program. If you have any additional questions, please visit our Help Center:
http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882

Sincerely.

The Google AdSense Team

I hope Google Affiliate Network will be maximized by international members.

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Google Retires AdSense Referrals and Introduces Google Affiliate Network

Pacquiao quoted, “This will be my hardest-fought battle. It’s been over three years since I have changed weight divisions and I will be doing it against the lightweight division’s world champion. I saw how he took the fight to Erik Morales in his last title defense and I’m expecting to see the same firepower out of him when we meet. But this is my drive for five. Five world titles in five different weight classes and I will not be denied. I am fighting for history, for destiny and for my people of the Philippines.“

“Manny Pacquiao has beaten many great fighters, especially Mexicans like Morales, Barrera, Marquez, Larios and Solis. That’s why they call him ‘The Mexicutioner’. I will shock the world and beat Pacquiao at his own game, power for power. He’s a great champion but he’s fighting in my division - lightweight. I have worked too hard for this world title and I will not give it up to him.” said Diaz.

As usual, with my past pacquiao’s boxing fight coverage such as the latest Pacquiao vs Marquez 2 fight, I will try my best to update, do a round by round live coverage and also post their boxing fight video as soon it is available and uploaded to video sites. So relax and stay tuned for more updates. One more week to go and its rumble time. Lastly, I hope my new web host Top Hosting Center can weather the surge of traffic at fight day. Oh! Before I forget, my prediction, Manny Pacquiao by KO on the later rounds. Good luck Manny.

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Lethal Combination: Manny Pacquiao vs David Diaz

For the following future posts, I will be reviewing our new Nikon D60 DSLR with kit lens which we bought last Aprill 2008. Also, I will be reviewing our new AF-S VR Zoom Nikkor Lens 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G IF-ED. Also, watch out for Manny Pacquiao vs David Diaz Boxing Fight next week. So watch out for that. Of course, I will be doing some SEO for those tech gadgets and boxing fight and videos. I am back.

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I Am Back Online

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

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WordPress 2.5.1 Released

After upgrading to WordPress 2.5, I have not encountered problems so far regarding all my plugins except for the WP-PostViews Version 1.20 plugin of LesterChan.net for which upgrading it to version 2.20 breaks the plugin because for some reason wp-dbmanager is showing as an upgrade for wp-postViews 1.20 Widget . Anyway, not upgrading the WP-PostViews 1.20 still worked for WordPress 2.5. So don’t upgrade it to version 2.20.

So far I have been enjoying the new Wordpress 2.5, but not up to now for about a week now, the image upload functionality and the inserting of image to post have not been working for me. After clicking the upload button, the login appeared (image 1) and I typed in the account. It then goes back to the upload process, after clicking again the upload button, this time “HTTP error. An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later ” occurred after the crunching process (image 2). I have tested and tried so many times uploading images to all my blogs, but still can’t get through. I have been in constant contact with my web host but still no workaround as of the moment.

So I search on Google to look for solutions and fix for this bug. I then found out that, not only me, many also encountered this kind of WordPress 2.5 image uploading and inserting bug .

Summarizing the list that i found related with this image uploading bug :

• Upload progress gets “stuck”
• Upload fails with an HTTP error
• Upload box does not appear at all
• If the upload window does appear, images can’t be managed, added or inserted into your post

UPDATE: Here is my fix/workaround to this problem:

Disclaimer : This may not work for some blogs running WordPress 2.5 but hey, this fix and workaround worked for me fine.

1. CHMOD the wp-content/uploads folder to 775 or 777.

2. Disable the flash uploader by installing the no-flash-uploader plugin. Be sure to activate it after you upload it to your Wordpress plugin folder.

3. Add this line to your root domain or subdomain .htaccess file (source)

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/wp-admin/async-upload.php$ MODSEC_ENABLE=Off

4. Clear your browsers cache

5. Then Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and try to upload and insert image to post.

I guess, this is all that you need to do. I have tried and tested this on Mozilla FireFox 2.0.0.14 and Safari 3.0.4 browsers. Another issue is regarding security risk of using MODSEC_ENABLE=Off to the file async-upload.php. I am not sure and have no idea what is the effect, risk or security issue of using MODSEC_ENABLE=Off. And I hope, this is not a big issue affecting the whole WordPress application.

I Hope this will help you and If you are still experiencing errors following this fix/workaround, feel free to comment and I will try my best to help. Please correct me if I miss something with this fix.

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WordPress 2.5 Bug: Image Upload (fix/workaround)

(more of this post later…..)

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Top Hosting Center: My New Web Host

Regarding the issues of the plugins, good thing all my activated plugins worked as expected except for the WP-PostViews Version 1.20 plugin of LesterChan.net. He said that It still has some issues about the automatic update of the plugin using the dashboard as wp-dbmanager is showing as an upgrade for wp-postViews Widget. He warned about it by NOT Using the Automatic Plugin Upgrade in upgrading his plugins.

I have received several feedback that the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature in WordPress is causing problem with my plugins.
I want to say that ALL my plugins currently will not work with the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature because there is a problem with the path. It is a little difficult for me to explain it here.
The new version of my plugins that I am going to release on 1st June 2008 will address this issue. In another words, if are using 1.30 or 2.30 beta of my plugins, the problem has been solved.
So in the mean time, DO NOT use the Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature for my plugin.

So far, Wordpress 2.5 looks great and will upgrade the rest of my blogs after this post. If you have a blog and still have not yet upgraded to WordPress 2.5, I highly recommend that you upgrade now.

How about you, What’s your take on upgrading to WordPress 2.5?

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Just upgraded to WordPress 2.5

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Protected: Special Day To My Wife

John decided to sell his blog for personal reasons. I wonder if Mr. Cow is settling sooner to Ms. Cow down under in Australia. You can view his sitepoint auction here. All I can say is Good luck with your auction and hope for the best that you exceed your B.I.N asking price of $50K. That is a lot of Mooooney. By the way John, If you exceed you B.I.N. price, send to me the excess. HaHaHa.

JohnCow.com was initially planned as a parody on the popular blog JohnChow.com. In the process of acquiring the domain an idea came to life. Why not adapt the winning formula and amplify it’s achievements? Using the platform John Chow uses as a tribute to his marketing skills? We will keep an eye out on the Internet’s biggest moooney-makers and publish their best ideas, projects and work.

Full Details of the Sale at Cow For Sale.

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JohnCow.com For Sale