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WordPress 2.5.1

April 25, 2008 by Emily  

News

2.5.1 was released today, so if you been waiting to upgrade, now’s the time to do it.  This new release contains one important security fix for 2.5, so it’s important you upgrade soon.

If you are just concerned with fixing the security issue you may download and replace these files:

• wp-includes/pluggable.php
• wp-admin/includes/media.php
• wp-admin/media.php

But you should really upgrade everything as 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including:

• 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

Also, as of 2.5 they’ve added an extra security measure to WordPress.  This involves adding a “secret key” to your wp-config.php file.  This measure will improve cookie security.  All you need to do is go to this website and copy and line it shows you into your wp-config.php file underneath the database info.  Every install of WP you have should have a different random “secret key” (you can just keep refreshing the website to get new ones).  And don’t worry, you’ll never need to remember this key so the more random the better.

Notice to Swank Web Hosting Customers

March 27, 2008 by Emily  

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*UPDATE* – The server has been upgraded and optimized this weekend for better performance. It’s currently being monitored very closer should any other issues pop up. Also, we have verified that the WordPress comment notification problem has been fixed and notifications are now being received.

We want to let you know that the server transfer is complete. We apologize for any issues you have been experiencing in the past few days. We are working on stabilizing the server right now. It was better today than yesterday and it should only improve from now on. This transfer has been bumpier than we anticipated and we truly apologize for this. We are working 24/7 to get things back to normal.

As for other issues that have been reported, we have fixed most everything. The only open issue right now is people not receiving comment notifications from WordPress blogs. We are working to fix this.

Due to the transfer some permissions have changed. This can cause issues with uploading, editing themes or certain plugins (like the Image Headlines plugin). This is a very easy fix. You just need to change the permissions on your uploads folder (and any sub folders) and image-headlines folder to 777. To edit theme files, change the permissions to 666. If you don’t know how to do this , please contact us at hosting@swankwebhosting.com or submit a helpdesk ticket. We will fix this for you ASAP.

If you have lost any posts or comments we are sorry about this. The transfer wound up taking longer than anticipated due to holiday weekend. However, these are easily retrievable by subscribing to your feeds (yourdomain.com/feed and yourdomain.com/comments/feed). We’re sorry for the inconvenience, it’s not something that will happen again. Since the transfer has been complete since yesterday, there should be no more issues as far as posting entries/comments.

Please contact us at hosting@swankwebhosting.com or submit a helpdesk ticket if you notice any other problems with your site.

Open for Business

January 4, 2008 by Emily  

News

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We had a nice (albeit busy) break ourselves, but it’s back to business as usual now.

You may have noticed (unless you are reading from the comforts of your feedreader, in which case click on over!) that we have completely redesigned our website. The redesign included completely starting from scratch with our portfolio and blog. Both are now more easily browseable, with much more info available about our projects. Plus the site as a whole is a bit lighter and speedier than it used to be.

Please stay tuned for news about our new designers, but as of right now most of our current designers are available. Spots fill up fast, so write in soon! Anyone who wrote in during the break should be hearing from/already heard from one of our designers; you will be first in line.

Happy 2008 to everyone! We think we’re in for an exciting year around here and we hope you will join us!