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Bugtraq: WordPress Database Backup

My WordPress Database Backup plugin appeared on Bugtraq today. The folks who found the directory traversal vulnerability didn't inform me about it. I don't know if they informed the WordPress security folks. A kind reader forwarded to me the announcement....

subscribe2 is dead. Long live subscribe2!

As most of my regular readers know, I've stopped developing subscribe2, the email notification plugin I first released a year and a half ago. This plugin was very well received, and it's in use on a lot of WordPress blogs. Of the plugins I wrote, only my database backup plugin is more popular -- and that's mostly due to its inclusion with the core WordPress download....

To Do Lists

Owen, have you seen the new to-do list plugin for WordPress? Maybe that'll be sufficient for your needs. It might fall short on the mobile phone compatibility requirement, though, in the same way WordPress itself will fail on a mobile....

Making No Changes

I'm disenfranchised with the WordPress development process, but I still think WordPress is a fairly groovy application. It lets me do what I want, and mostly stays out of my way. I say "mostly" because having used it for two years, it's hard for me to differentiate what works very well and what I've learned to just work around.

I'm not currently interested in exporting all of my data, importing it into some other application, and then learning to deal with a whole new set of things that mostly work. As such, I'll be sticking with WordPress for the immediate future. Moreover, looking around at the available options for blogging, none of the alternatives -- or the sites powered by them -- have me saying "Wow, I want that!". They all do the same things, by and large: publish content, accept comments, and manage some links. That's all there is to blogging, right? more

WordPress-less

Earlier today I unsubscribed from all the WordPress mailing lists. I've terminated my dircproxy sitting in #wordpress. I've just now sent a note to Matt asking him to revoke my forum and trac privileges....