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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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I recently attended the Future of Web Apps conference on February 29th with my friends Alain Fontaine and Ptah Dunbar. While we were there, we had the opportunity to meet Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress. We had a nice discussion on premium WordPress themes, the WordPress Themes Marketplace, and WordPress themes development in general. It was such an honor. Just thought I’d let ya’ll know!

To kick-start WPCandy, we decided to interview Matt Mullenweg! For those of you who don’t know, Matt is the founding developer of WordPress. So let’s skip all this talking and dive right into the interview!

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