<div class="rss-widget"><ul><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wordpress.org/news/2014/03/wordpress-3-9-beta-1/' title='I’m excited to announce that the first beta of WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing. WordPress 3.9 is due out next month — but in order to hit that goal, we need your help testing all of the goodies we’ve added: We updated TinyMCE, the software powering the visual editor, to the latest version. […]'>WordPress 3.9 Beta 1</a> <span class="rss-date">11 Μαρτίου 2014</span><div class='rssSummary'>I’m excited to announce that the first beta of WordPress 3.9 is now available for testing. WordPress 3.9 is due out next month — but in order to hit that goal, we need your help testing all of the goodies we’ve added: We updated TinyMCE, the software powering the visual editor, to the latest version. […]</div></li></ul></div><div class="rss-widget"><ul><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wptavern.com/akismet-update-adds-security-and-anti-spam-improvements?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=akismet-update-adds-security-and-anti-spam-improvements' title='Last week, we wrote about a report published by Sucuri that explained how 162,000 clean WordPress sites were used in a DDoS attack through the pingback functionality of XML-RPC. Alex Shiels who works on Akismet mentioned on Twitter the security team was working on a solution. An update to Akismet is now available containing bug fixes, security, and anti-spam improvements. Notably:  Include X-Pingback-Forwarded-For header in outbound WordPress pingback verifications. Add a pre-check for pingbacks, to stop spam before an outbound verification request is made.  According to Shiels, anti-spam checks were performed after a pingback was verified and WordPress didn’t pass on who made the request that caused it to verify a pingback effectively cloaking the true source. Shiels also stated the fixes applied to Akismet may find their way into the core of WordPress in a future update: “We think a similar approach may be appropriate for core in a future release.” How To Disable Pingbacks On Content Already Published While the security improvements in Akismet will have the widest impact, I still maintain that trackbacks and pingbacks have lost their luster. You can easily stop pingbacks in the Settings – Discussion area but to remove them from content already published involves using a MySQL query. Thankfully, there’s a plugin that bypasses the need to use the query called Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks by Ajay. Auto Close Pingbacks/Trackbacks Settings Page Auto-close gives users flexibility in determining which posts and pages ping/trackbacks will be disabled. There’s no option to disable them on every post or page. However, I was able to shut them off on most of my content by closing ping/trackbacks on posts older than one day. If you have a lot of content already published, you’ll want to use the built-in scheduler to avoid using too many resources on the server. The plugin works as advertised and is the only one I could find that has the ability to turn trackback and pingbacks off in bulk without using a database query.'>WPTavern: Akismet Update Adds Security and Anti-Spam Improvements</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wordpress.tv/2014/03/18/john-lynn-can-you-make-money-blogging/' title='    '>WordPress.tv: John Lynn: Can You Make Money Blogging?</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://wptavern.com/video-explains-open-source-using-legos?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=video-explains-open-source-using-legos' title='WordPress has benefited greatly from being Open Source software licensed under the GPL. But what does Open Source actually mean? The folks over at Bit Blueprint in partnership with Moving Monday released a video using LEGO bricks and toys to explain the subject. Open Source Explained By LEGOs While the video is not 100% accurate since Free Software and Open Source are two different movements with different ideological motives, it does a great job of introducing people to the subject. We are aware of the fact that the Free Software and Open Source movements have both similarities and differences. Both in terms of individuals and ideological motives. We wanted to have our video tell a simple story for everyone to understand, so we included a character, Richard Stallman, as a symbol of the origin of the movements. History is rarely this simple – the complex (and historically correct) reality is of course that the founders of the movements are a lot of different individuals. The video also does a good job to dispel common myths associated with open source software such as:  Not having any control over your work (False) Open equals unsafe (False) Everything is or must be free (False)  '>WPTavern: Video Explains Open Source Using LEGOs</a></li></ul></div><div class="rss-widget"><ul><li class='dashboard-news-plugin'><span>Δημοφιλέστερο πρόσθετο:</span> <a href='http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/' class='dashboard-news-plugin-link'>WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce</a></h5>&nbsp;<span>(<a href='plugin-install.php?tab=plugin-information&amp;plugin=woocommerce&amp;_wpnonce=d298f722e6&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;width=600&amp;height=800' class='thickbox' title='WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce'>Εγκατάσταση</a>)</span></li></ul></div>