San Francisco-based Six Apart, publisher of popular blogging software Movable Type and Typepad blogs, announced the CEO and Chair Barak Berkowitz is stepping down. The head of the software division, Chris Alden, will be taking Berkowitz’s place.
More here from Reuters UK - Executive shuffle at blog software maker Six Apart
Update your files, kids. For those of you on Fantastico servers, lucky you - for the rest of us, check out these instructions. Thanks to Blog-Op for the tips!
Can’t get enough stats? Performancing released a new WordPress plugin for your Dashboard last week. Called pMetrics, the plugin was deemed a “major step forward in WordPress plugin technology” by Ryan Caldwell in the post at Performancing.com’s blog announcing the development.
The new plugin features automatic updates (which can be turned on and off), one-click installation and removal, display of recent searches, ranking, and automatic installation of the javascript code. Future goals include affiliate banners in the sidebar, a blog sales page with detailed stats, and Feedburner integration.
To download the plugin, visit the Performancing.com post. Let us know how you like it, or don’t, in the comments below!
Thanks to 9:01AM for the tip.
Technorati Tags: performancing, pmetrics, wordpress plugins
Blogger’s problems continue to mount up with growing complaints of glitches and widespread outage resulting in a sitewide crash this morning. However, the problem seems to have been resolved now.
Outage Hits Google’s Blogs, PC World (Aug. 22, 2007)
Tom Johnson makes BNW two days in a row with this cautionary tale about upgrading the Wordpress files you depend on for your bloggy livelihood.
I’m so not kidding about this, kids. Go read his blog post, then hightail it over to Podz’ Tamba2 Wordpress Tutorials page, as Tom suggests as well, to get the help you need to do this right.
See, the beauty of Wordpress lies in its hands-on manageability - the blogger can make it do whatever s/he wants, pretty much, just by tinkering.
But the ugly lies in its hands-on manageability - the blogger can make it do things s/he definitely DOESN’T want, if s/he doesn’t know what the Hades s/he’s doing.
If you’re Wordpress-powered, you might want to amble on over to the mother ship to download some fresh hot security updates. Sayeth the Wordpress Blog:
We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches. These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems.
A full sweep of the codebase? Sounds deliciously naughty. Here’s hoping it makes for a happier blogging experience!
Wordpress, security updates
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