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.

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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Google limits the number of ads that you can place in your blog per page. When you place the adsense code by modifying index.php so that the ad appears below a post, the ad is going to appear beneath all the posts on your blog’s homepage. This is not what we want.

For the ad to only appear under the first post and nowhere else,

The Quick Way

Edit index.php and place the following code wherever you want the ad to appear:

  <?php if ($wp_query->current_post < 1) {
adsense_deluxe_ads('above_posts');
} ?>

Replace adsense_deluxe_ads(’above_posts’); with your adsense code. If you want the ad to appear below the post, you would paste the above before <?php endwhile; ?>

Source.

We’ve similarly placed 3 link units at the top of first three posts on our home page using this code:

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