On 11 July 2008, with the launch of iTunes App Store by Apple, Wordpress has also released its native app for iPhone and iPod Touch Wordpress app has all the features which Wordpress Admin panel have. This app works for all the Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress 2.5.1 or above blogs.
Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds. Download it now!
This version includes several performance improvements and bug fixes including:
- Proper handling of multi-byte / accented characters, which fixes the crashes many of you were experiencing.
- The preview system that no longer creates a temporary empty post, which may have interfered with certain plugins like Twitter Tools.
- More helpful and descriptive error message, no more PC LOAD LETTER.
If you run into any issues please let us know.
You can also track what is planned for version 1.2 via iphone.trac.wordpress.org.
Taken from Wikipedia & wordpress.org
On 10 July 2007, following a discussion on the WordPress ideas forum and a post by Mark Ghosh in his blog Weblog Tools Collection,Matt Mullenweg announced that the official WordPress theme directory at http://themes.wordpress.net would no longer host themes containing sponsored links. Although this move was criticized by designers and users of sponsored themes, it was applauded by some WordPress users who consider such themes to be spam. The official WordPress theme directory ceased to accept any new themes, including those without sponsored links, shortly after the announcement was made. Ironically, the closure of the official site and its consequent lack of up-to-date themes drove many people into downloading themes from unofficial sites which inserted their own spam links into all themes downloaded from them.
On July 18, 2008, a new theme directory opened at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/. It was styled along the same lines as the plug-ins directory.Any theme that is uploaded to it will be vetted, first by an automated program and then by a human.
WordPress supports one weblog per installation, though multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables.
Wordpress Multi-User (Wordpress MU) is a fork of WordPress created to allow simultaneous blogs to exist within one installation. Wordpress MU makes it possible for anyone with a website to host their own blogging community, control, and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. Wordpress MU adds eight new data tables for each blog.
Lyceum is another enterprise-edition of Wordpress. Unlike WordPress MU, Lyceum stores all of its information in a set number of database tables. Notable communities that use Lyceum are TeachFor.Us(Teach For America teachers’ blogs), BodyBlogs and the Hopkins Blogs.
BlogSecurity currently maintains a list of WordPress vulnerabilities.
In January 2007, many high-profile Search engine optimization (SEO) blogs, as well as many low-profile commercial blogs featuring AdSense, were targeted and attacked with a WordPress exploit.
A separate vulnerability on one of the project site’s web servers allowed an attacker to introduce exploitable code in the form of a back door to some downloads of WordPress 2.1.1. The 2.1.2 release addressed this issue; an advisory released at the time advised all users to upgrade immediately.
In May 2007, a study revealed that 98% of WordPress blogs being run are exploitable.
In a June 2007 interview, Stefen Esser, the founder of the PHP Security Response Team, spoke critically of WordPress’s security track record, citing problems with the application’s architecture that make it unnecessarily difficult to write code that is secure from SQL injection vulnerabilities, as well as other problems.
Taken from : Wikipedia
WordPress 2.5, code named Brecker, was released 29 March 2008. Developers skipped the release of version 2.4 so version 2.5 contained two releases worth of new code. WordPress 2.5 saw a complete overhaul of the administration interface and the WordPress website was also redesigned to match the new style.
WordPress 2.6, code named Tyner, was released 15 July 2008. It contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.