Buy a Theme and Help Some People

I just picked up on some good news via Twitter and thought I should pass it along as it is quite important. The good folk behind KreativeThemes are holding a promotion whereby a portion of sales will be donated to UNICEF to help out the earthquake victims of Haiti. What we will do is that we’re going to make a special sales run for 30 days, where you can purchase our themes (both packages and theme... continue reading

MaxBlogPress Plugins Pulled From WordPress Repo

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the plugins created by MaxBlogPress but after numerous complaints in the WordPress support forums they have been yanked from the WordPress plugin repository. I've never used any of these plugins but after doing some research they do add some usefulness to your site. The problem with these plugins is that once they are installed they require the user to... continue reading

Contest Winner

As announced back on 04 Nov, we've been running a little contest/promo here at WordPress Canada with the big prize being a free copy of the Flexx Professional theme by iThemes. A big thanks to those you participated but unfortunately, as the saying goes, there can be only one. That being said only one contestant got it right. The rules were quite simple or at least I thought they were. Quoting from... continue reading

WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

Users are advised to upgrade their WordPress installs to version 2.8.6 which fixes two vulnerabilities. From the official WordPress Dev Blog, 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended. The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered... continue reading

WordPress 2.9 Brings Cool New Features

WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner and with this release comes a slew of new and dare I say uber-cool features. While some of these new features are aimed at developers, such as the introduction of the_post_image() and get_post_type() to name a couple, most are meant for the end-user. In this article I'm going to talk about 4 new features I think most of you will find quite useful. They are: Trash oEmbed Image... continue reading