WordPress just released an urgent security upgrade for version 2.3.2. It fixes a flaw that allowed a user to edit posts of others by a XML-RPC implementation hack. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.

What is new in v2.3.3? Well, only 5 files. These are:

There’s no change in the database (tables) structure. Hence there’s no need to do the full upgrade the usual way (as mentioned in the WordPress documentation).

To upgrade your WordPress blog from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3, follow these steps:

1. Download the .zip file containing the changed files from here.
2. Extract the archive and upload the files to your web space using a FTP client overwriting the existing ones.

That’s it.

I’ve recorded the desktop screen activity while I upgraded this blog to 2.3.3. It’s a 2 minute video at 800×600 resolution. Click on the image below to watch the WordPress upgrade video:

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DreamHost, like many other inexpensive shared web hosting providers offers a simple and easy way of installing WordPress blog on your web space.

Below is a video tutorial on how I went about installing WordPress at www.sridhareena.com. This screencast is aimed at those who are new to DreamHost and WordPress.

Video info:

• Dimensions: 800×600
• Duration: 4.52
• Audio: Yes
• File Size: 2.92 MB

Click on the image below to start the WordPress installation video:

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Job-A-Matic provides a free, fast and easy way for web site owners to embed a functional job board in their blog. This is a potential money making opportunity as you can charge those who wants to post a job opportunity on your web site or blog. doshdosh has covered in detail as to how you can monetize your web site using Job-A-Matic. The way to integrate Job-A-Matic in your WordPress blog is the same as how you go about integrating Amazon aStore in a WordPress page. ORMSblog has written a similar tutorial for embedding Job-A-Matic in your WordPress blog page.

Click here to access the how-to on integrating Job-A-Matic in WordPress.

You can see a live demo of the job board on his blog here.

Today I came across a unique type of advertisements that publishers can place on their blog or web site. emptyspaceads is system that bridges advertisers and publishers by way of ads that appear when a visitor moves his mouse over the empty space of your web site. Presently the only participating network in their system is Shopping Ads.

When you add a web site at emptyspaceads, you need to decide the percentage of time the Network and Personal ads are shown. A good value is 50%-50%.

Two types of ads can be placed:

1. Network Ads: Presently the only participating network in their system is Shopping Ads. You will have to sign up at Shopping Ads (formerly known as AuctionAds), if you don’t have an account there already. Then paste the code into emptyspaceads.
2. Personal (In-Site) Ads: Text and Image ads can be placed. These can link to any URL of your choice. When creating a personal ad, you have the option of letting emptyspaceads determine the empty space on your site (where the ads will be displayed) or you can specify the ad region (ads will be displayed only when the visitor’s mouse is in the region). This ad region is specified by adding a CSS class to the HTML element.

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Submitting your blog posts to Digg.com is a great way to get traffic and gaining new visitors who could turn out to be potential feed subscribers depending on the merit of your content. So adding a small button to encourage the readers to submit your blog post to Digg is only logical.

Kenny Carlile has put together code that will add the Digg Submission button to your WordPress blog posts. Stories already submitted will show how many times they have been dugg and stories not yet submitted will post to the submit story page with information pre-populated (first 350 characters from the post will be pre-populated for first-time submission).

Here is how we have used this code to place the ‘Digg It’ button to the left of posts in single view with the content wrapping around the button:

1. Create a file called diggthis.php in your theme’s directory having this code.

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