After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku:
Three dot oh dot one
Bug fixes to make you smile
Update your WordPress
This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.
Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
[...]There’s a new BuddyPress plugin available that will allow you to manually activate users through your dashboard who have not activated themselves. Sometimes this happens because the activation link goes to the user’s spam folder or an email address that they don’t normally use. Add this to your site by installing the WP Activate Users plugin. You’ll have a new menu in your admin area that will allow you to activate the users directly through the dashboard without having to touch the database. This is a great option if you don’t want to disable the activation email but are worried about some of the emails not arriving to the user’s inbox.
This is a tutorial for developers who host projects with Google Code and blog with WordPress. Suppose you could create an automatically-updating archive of your SVN activity for a project you’re working on? The Google Code Commit Tracking plugin for WordPress 3.0 allows you to do just that!
Whenever you make an SVN commit on a Google Code project, you can instruct Google to send a notice to someplace else. This plugin enables WordPress to receive those notices and output them as an SVN Activity custom post type. You’ll be able to view them in a list under the SVN Activity custom post menu in your dashboard:
