Coredump

Quick bits of status updates:

• Updated Coredump to WP 2.6.5, which fixes an XSS exploit vulnerability and some bugs. Since I installed using SVN, the update was a trivial

  svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.5/ .

  and a visit to /wp-admin.

• Updated my WordPress sandbox to 2.7-beta3-9909. Again, I use the SVN trunk so updating was a breeze.
• Upgraded one of my boxes, marty, to Fedora 10. Now, upgrading Fedora is always a bit more involved.

  I had to clean up the old yum cache (using yum clean all; point yum to the new release; do a yum upgrade; and a final package-cleanup --orphans to check for un-updated packages. After that, I pointed grub to the newly installed kernel (2.6.27.5-117.fc10), and rebooted.

  The new boot screen takes some getting used to, but the box boots surprisingly quick (~30 seconds? I did not check). And voila! I’m on Cambridge.

A nifty feature on WordPress 2.7-’hemorrhage’, Plugin Browser/Installer, lets you to select and install plugins from a web browser. There’s no need for the typical download-unzip(-FTP, if you don’t have shell access) workflow that we currently have.

A nifty feature in the nightly build, Plugins Browse/Installer

You can search using plugin names and descriptions, tags, or author. Once you find the plugin you need, installing it is just a matter of clicking on the link. The link provides the description of the plugin, much like what’s available through the WordPress plugin directory. You can even activate the plugin from the same popup overlay.

Speaking of the nightly build, the dashboard sports a new look — sidebars instead of header tabs:

WP 2.7-hemorrhage dashboard sports a new look

The first WordCamp Philippines will be held on September 6. Spearheaded by the Mindanao Bloggers, it will feature tracks in deploying WP as well as themes and plugins development.

Registration is free — all you have to do is blog about your intent to join the event.

The event, which is set to be held at the College of St. Benilde in Manila, is sponsored by the following:

• i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
• Free Online Flash Games
• Wazzup Manila Philippines
• Real Estate CRM
• Real Estate Website Designers
• Orange County Real Estate
• Auto Insurance Quotes
• Lane Systems Inc.
• RedMedia
• Orange County Business Lawyer
• Cebu Pacific Air
• Buddy Gancenia Reality TV
• SmartBro Wireless Broadband
• SPOT.ph
• Make Money with Performancing Ads

You’ll probably notice the cool Flash tag cloud on the sidebar. That’s courtesy of Roy Tanck’s WP-Cumulus plugin. Thanks, @sofimi for the heads up.

I’m still on K2 (RC3), but I’ve ditched its Sidebar Manager for WP’s widgets. SBM has been causing lots of issues for me lately, but I haven’t had the time to muck around it. (When did I ever have time for anything, anyway? ;)) It’s working fine in my sandbox, though — well, RC5 at least, but I’m not that keen on porting my tweaks yet to that release.

I haven’t been posting here lately. Like a few other bloggers I know, Twitter (and FriendFeed) has been the choice for posting “lifestream” tidbits. But, heck, I don’t even use Twitter that much now (prolly, the IT sec audit at work has something to do with it, heh).

I’m writing this on a mobile phone using the wp-admin phone interface plugin, WPhone.

The experience is quite painful — it’s not meant for the usual mobile phone browser, but rather for richer ones (in both the functional and, er, economical sense).

I’m better off using other means, like email-to-blog perhaps.

Update: I take that back. Well, the part about posting using the mobile admin interface, anyway — that is still not usable and there are better ways of doing it. But other simple admin tasks (like activating or deactivating a plugin, for example) can be quite easy using the mobile interface.

For example, I was able to activate the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin, and was able to see the result right away.

There’s still the matter of having the plugin there in the first place though. Hmmm, SSH on S60 should be next in my list.