WordPress version 2.8 is available for download. It was released at June 10th, 2009 and is named after trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Let's first not talk about the bug which I noticed. Instead lets start with what we should do whenever a new version of WordPress appears.

Whenever WordPress latest version appears, it is recommended to upgrade because you might want to keep your files latest so that your blog would be safe from hackers (WP is Open Source - You are looking the cool front end while the hacker is looking the back end because he is a programmer and knows the code in most cases) and you might want to enjoy new features of WordPress. It is necessary to upgrade. Atleast that is what I have learned the hard way. Before you upgrade, take a look at the new features. It can be a minor or major upgrade. In case of minor upgrade it can involve just upgrading some files in WP-admin while for major upgrade the database and all the files are necessary to upgrade.

It is risky and a very long process to upgrade manually; I mean to do it yourself. You can forget some steps in the way and crash everything. I mean do you have really an idea about how to upgrade the database in the right way? Not every blogger does. You need to secure your database, files in uploads directory (if it is named as uploads), themes and plugins before upgrading. I always advise following steps before upgrading:

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Plugins are cool. Every WordPress powered blog uses different plugins. They give your blog wings. There are few things you must be aware of before using plugins. What I do, I just test the plugin before I actually use it. All the plugins out there are not trustworthy. Even if any plugin comes by a trusted source, it can have bugs which will make your blogging life a bit complicated. I regularly check plugins, update plugins whenever any update is available and remove the plugin which contain any bug. Here are few popular WPplugins I noticed some bugs in them recently.

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Recently I was working with simple XHTML web page. I had to close and reopen the document while I noticed that Dreamweaver was crashing after opening that particular document. All other pages were opening normally except for that document was causing to close the dreamweaver after opening it.

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WordPress 2.6.5 is immediately available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. I recommend everyone upgrade to this release.

The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.

2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests. For a list of changed files, consult the full changeset between 2.6.3 and 2.6.5.

Note that this is skipping version 2.6.4 and jumping from 2.6.3 to 2.6.5 to avoid confusion with a fake 2.6.4 release that made the rounds. There is not and never will be a version 2.6.4.

Version WordPress 2.6.5
Download WordPress 2.6.5

For Wordpress new release 2.6.2, I updated one of my blog and got my posts exported and then imported into new blog. There one unusual thing I noticed. WP23RP (WP Related Posts Plugin) which I was using and post views plugin did something unusual. Whenever i was going to open my Write new post section It got held and jQuery script went unresponsive while I noticed that there was a loop going on in my Write Panel under Custom Fields Tab. Related posts were populating there which should not be because I was writing a new post, and was not editing any existing post.

my server got heavy load and they told me about it. I immediately turned off WP Related posts and Post Views plugins but problem was same. Post views fields were also populating there.

I realized that there must be some database problem. I fixed that after a bit of a struggle.

I requested help from Wordpress Forum here.

Author's homepage is here.

Plugin's home page is here.

yet I did not get any response. But its a critical issue. It can be anything with new Wordpress 2.6.2 importing or it can be anything to do with WP Realted Posts Plugin (Update Issue).

If you know anything relating to this problem then please advise the audience.

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Open a blank Word document and type the following:
=rand(200,99)
Press 'Enter' afterwards... Wait 5 seconds!
see what happens

Remember!!! Type it, dont copy paste it otherwise it may not work.

Ever encountered with this WordPress MySQL error? MySQL Server Has Gone Away. And then your blog sidebars will refuse to show posts links, tags, recent posts, recent comments etc. I got this problem over and over again and I thought that I was using heavy plugins and MySQL query was timed out being very long. I searched for some solution but just found this answer that if I will use long query, MySQL server will be timed out and will be gone away. Funny!!! But I was hesitating to use more plugins and actually using limited options and other limits in existing WordPress plugins in my blog.

After a bit googling today I found a final solution for 'MySQL server has gone away' problem with my blog. There is a fix of wp-includes/wp-db.php file for this. Different versions of WordPress has different fix file. I am using WP 2.3 so I will give link here for WordPress 2.3 version.

How to Fix MySQL error

To install the fix, download the “fixed” wp-db…phptxt file, rename it to wp-db.php, and copy it to wp-includes/wp-db.php (overwriting the old file). You may want to backup the old file instead of overwriting it. You’ll need to do this each time you upgrade Wordpress, with the appropriate version of wp-db.php for that version of Wordpress.

To download fix file please follow origional source link.

Origional complete article link with downloadable fixes for all WordPress versions

I have successfully installed the fix and now my blog is problem free. Thanks to Rob's Notebook for sorting this problem out. 

IE Won't Allow document.createElement('style')

If you try to add style declarations in the head of a document, IE breaks at the name 'style' -"unexpected call to method or property access".

I guess its getting confused between the head element < s t y l e> and the object property .style?

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Explorer z-index Bug

In Internet Explorer positioned elements generate a new stacking context, starting with a z-index value of 0. Therefore z-index doesn't work correctly.

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Stretched Buttons Bug

If an input is given a type "button" or "submit" and the value used to apply text to the button is over 18 characters long, the button is shown stretched horizontally. The top and bottom border is also thicker. The effect increases with the length of the button text used.

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Changing The Type Of An Input Field

Setting the type attribute of an input element to button via setAttribute('type', 'button') does not work in Internet Explorer 6 or Opera 8.51. The bug is fixed in Opera 9 technology preview 1.

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IE6 Un-Caches CSS Backgrounds On Launching New Window

I have a JS based rollover that animates the position of a DIV's tiled background image. In IE6, after a new window is opened, via t a r g e t = " _ b l a n k " or through w i n d o w . o p e n ( ) when you go back to that page, it flashes and reloads the images upon mouseover.

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Font-Variant: Small-Caps And Text-Transform

When you use font-variant: small-caps, Explorer ignores text-transform: uppercase || lowercase.

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Mouseover On Anchor And Return Value

An event handler for onmouseover an anchor should not show the URL in the status bar when you return false, and it should when you return true, but actually it does exactly the opposite.

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Letter-Spacing And Floated Labels/Inputs

If you have letter-spacing set and create more than one label/input sets and seperate them with line break, IE will remove every other set.

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And many others ...

For Full List Which I viewed Follow Here