Jared Ritchey: "I managed to break free for 30 minutes and wrap up a small bug in the WordPress Menu Creator. As it stands we are at version 1.0.2 which is only a maintenance release to fix some issues when using widgets in conjunction with the menu manager."

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"I have been alerted to a serious issue with the e107 Gold System plugin. Normally we try not to mention vulnerabilities with plugins as this is not our code and it's much harder for us to get it fixed.

However, in this instance I know the exploit is out in the wild so I thought it was serious enough to mention it here. I have alerted the author of the code and hopefully a fix will be out soon."

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I recently upgrade a blog of mine from Wordpress 2.2 to Wordpress 2.3.  My wife and I don't post on the blog much (looking for better ideas on how to utilize the site), but it's great to keep around to test the latest and greatest Wordpress has to offer.  In my view, the most important new feature in Wordpress 2.3 is the baseline introduction of tags (also called taxonomy or even categories in other CMS applications).

Jared Ritchey has a few things to say about search engine optimization and WordPress.

WordPress realistically only takes about 5 minutes to install but as any WordPress professional knows, the configuration and setup of other elements of design can take many hours if good results are expected. Since my #1 SEO suggestion to site owners is a blog, It makes sense for me to keep and maintain up to date versions of the tools I work with.

In his post, "Index Faster in Google with WordPress", he gives you six must-have plugins for your Wordpress site that he has found improves your rankings with the search engines.  So you might as well go for a visit to his site as I won't spill the beans here.  Though, I will say that the last plugin he suggests will likely not be needed if you've upgraded to the just released Wordpress 2.3.

"My Share This plugin for WordPress has proven to be very popular. It is being used on a number of high profile sites including Mashable.com, GigaOM, Web Worker Daily, AllThingsD.com and others. It’s a good example of a tool meeting a need. As you would expect, I wasn’t the only one trying to solve the sharing problem."

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"WordPress 2.3 introduces our new taxonomy schema. This new schema replaces the categories, post2cat, and link2cat tables with three new tables that are more flexible."

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"Like announced earlier on the serendipity blog, fellow usability expert Joachim Harloff is currently trying to improve the listing of Serendipity Plugins so that they are more accessible to users."

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