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Product Updates
Product Updates, from the phpWordPress forum. Archived product update threads from the phpWordPress forum, covering new features, fixes, patches and upgrade questions from 2005 and 2006.
The Product Updates board recorded what changed in phpWordPress between releases: new modules, bug fixes, security patches and the questions customers asked when they upgraded. Each thread shows the archived posts, and where customers asked a question we answer it again for today’s publishing software. The release history puts the versions in order.
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The magic_quotes_gpc bug in phpWordPress, January 2005
The January 2005 phpWordPress bug report about PHP's magic_quotes_gpc setting, why it broke article posting, and how PHP later removed the feature.
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phpWordPress 2.6.0: meta descriptions, template editor, PDF
What phpWordPress 2.6.0 added in January 2005: richer meta descriptions, a highlighted template editor and PDF export, and how CMSs handle them now.
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phpWordPress search upgrade: relevancy sorting, March 2005
The March 2005 phpWordPress search update: fuller result pages, relevancy sorting and better subcategory display, and what site search means for publishers.
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phpWordPress author pages: Enhanced support for Authors (2005)
The March 2005 phpWordPress update that gave each author a landing page with details and articles, and how author pages and markup work today.
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phpWordPress new modules: dynamic sitemap, languages, RSS filter
The April 2005 phpWordPress module release: a dynamic sitemap, multilanguage support and an RSS filter, and how XML sitemaps and feeds work today.
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phpWordPress poll control added (August 2005)
The August 2005 phpWordPress poll control, sold with Enterprise and Developer licences, and what reader polls offer a publishing site today.
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Multilingual news website: translation, URLs and hreflang
How to run a multilingual news site: CMS translation models, URL structures, hreflang per Google's documentation, and a practical translation workflow.
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CMS security updates: best practices for staying patched
How a news publisher should handle CMS security patches: knowing your version, SQL injection basics from OWASP, an update policy and advisory sources.
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phpWordPress 3.0.1 and its AJAX features (December 2005)
The December 2005 phpWordPress 3.0.1 release added AJAX headline rotation and auto-complete search, early examples of updating a page without reloading it.
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CMS release cycles and LTS versions: planning upgrades
How CMS release cycles work today: semantic versioning, Drupal's published schedule and support windows, and how to plan upgrades around them.
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Major CMS upgrade checklist: upgrade or rebuild?
A 2006 forum question asked whether a new CMS version meant upgrading or reinstalling, and what happens to templates. The same planning applies today.
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Can you skip versions when upgrading a CMS? Upgrade paths
A 2006 customer on version 3.0 found the 3.2 upgrade pack only covered 3.1. Here is what current CMS documentation says about skipping versions.
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How to vet CMS plugins and extensions before installing
A 2006 customer could not find the free plug-ins that came with their licence. Here is how to source, vet and maintain CMS plugins and extensions today.
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phpWordPress 3.25 upgrade patch released (June 2006)
The 7 June 2006 phpWordPress 3.25 upgrade patch: AJAX calendar, collapsible categories, newsletter import and fixes, issued weeks before the Vivvo rename.