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This is a guest post by Jeff Chandler of Jeffro2pt0.com.

Over the past few days, news of a possible multiple SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress 2.5 was spreading across the WordPress community like wildfire. However, Matt Mullenweg has published a post which puts our fears to rest in that the bulletin was falsified. Matt’s post also contains a wide assortment of helpful information in regards to why you should upgrade your version of WordPress to the latest stable release. One of the more interesting portions of his post discusses the most common reasons Matt finds as to why people don’t upgrade their WordPress installation.

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While at WordCamp Dallas last weekend, Matt Mullenweg talked a bit about WordPress 2.6 and what’s to come with it. It seems someone in the audience managed to get it all on tape too!

Throughout the video, Matt touches on some WordPress Stats, the WordPress Theme Marketplace, and posting with WordPress via mobiles.

Maybe in the near future, I’ll write up a post on what I would personally like to see in WordPress 2.6.

As announced today by Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Dallas, Automattic has officially released WordPress 2.5, along with their new site design!

What’s new in WordPress 2.5? The biggest change you’ll see is the new administration theme, designed by HappyCog. The new theme definitely streamlines and simplifies the WordPress interface a lot. It also includes a customizable dashboard, built-in galleries (hallelujah!!), built-in Gravatars, and even faster loading speeds.

This build of WordPress is looking more fantastic than ever! Let’s give a huge thanks to the developers and designers at WordPress for a great release!

WordPress 2.5 is available for download over at Wordpress.org. And if you’re a WordPress.com user, fear not, you will receive an update to 2.5 in the next week.

As for WPCandy, we will be upgrading to 2.5 soon, as well as making sure our WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme is compatible. Stay tuned for more news on 2.5.

Ok so maybe it won’t change our lives, but it just might change the way we use our WordPress powered Web sites.

Yesterday was supposed to be the release date of WordPress 2.5. But I went to sleep without any news of WordPress 2.5 being released*. I woke up this morning and guess what I found? Yep. The WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1. Although they didn’t actually release the full version, I’m glad they did release at least something.

“A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you,” says Matt Mullenweg in his 2.5 Sneak Peak post on the WordPress development blog.

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If you haven’t already, in some point in your WordPress-coding/designing life, you’re going to come across a WordPress bug or something you just don’t know how to fix or get working. So what do you do? If you’re like me, you’ll first ask your coding buddies, then hit up Google to see what you can find, then maybe head over to the WordPress Codex, if all else fails. Here are some alternatives to getting WordPress help so you don’t have to bother your coding buddies.

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There are tons of people using WordPress. And I mean tons. Just alone this month, over 8,811 WordPress.com users have signed up and over 8,648 WordPress.com blogs have been created. That’s not even counting self-hosted WordPress blogs/sites!

The majority of people using WordPress, are using it as a blog, but there are also a lot of other sites using WordPress for marketplaces, galleries, portfolios, and even contest systems.

Among the tons of WordPress powered sites, there are quite a few “big boys” who also use WordPress.

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You’d be surprised at the demand for WordPress coders and designers these days. Whether it be premium themes, public themes, plugins, or just code/design touch-ups, people are looking for other people to fill all these types positions. But the question is, where to look for these kinds of jobs?

In this post, I’ve listed some of the best sites where Freelancers can look for WordPress-related jobs.

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Automattic has just released the WordPress Publisher Blog, a new blog “aimed at helping publishers get the most out of WordPress.” Various members of the Automattic team will be covering “features that are often overlooked”, “highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality”, and “showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.”

Well, what’s Automattic? Automattic is “a startup from a handful of people passionate about making the web a better place.” They’re a bunch of cool peeps who’ve worked on projects such as WordPress, bbPress, Askimet, Gravatar, and some sweet plugins.

There’s not much going on over at the blog yet, but if there are any interesting articles published over there, I’ll make sure to let you all know!