Just wanted to update you on a few developments with the back-porting of Wordpress 2.5.x security improvements to version 2.3.3.
First, I want to emphasize that I did this largely to show that it was possible, and that Wordpress (Automattic) should consider rolling out such security fixes for older versions as patches rather than forcing "upgrades" [...]

there is so much unqualified commentary out on Yahoo-MSFT 2day, it’s hard to think straight: most don’t get search, SEO, PPC, monetization [View]
cont’d: almost no one understands the per-search monetization gap & falsely mixes it up with scale. If they were right, Y! wouldn’t b able 2 [View]
cont’d: profitably (like 60-80%+) outsource ad serves to [...]

OK, the content of this post is so important that I won’t agonize too much over whether the writing is all that smooth or not.
You may have heard any number of things in recent weeks and months about the need to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.x because of security issues with the older versions. In fact, [...]

just got some major insights into security issues with Wordpress..working on porting over key fixes that came with 2.5 into 2.3.3 [View]
cont’d: so’s to avoid upgrading (maybe I’ll never upgrade and run a renegade 2.3.3 "i" branch).. yeah, I’m evil like that.. [View]
cont’d: in case you didn’t know it, there’s plenty wrong with Wordpress 2.5.x [...]

I am not usually in the habit of creating posts with large scale quotations, but in this case, the information that was revealed, but buried in a longish interview (too long for most people’s itchy, "RSS Feed" attention spans :) is so important, and so validates what I’ve been saying for several weeks now, that [...]