What I look forward to the most is that Justin Tadlock from ThemeHybrid will be releaseing version 0.6 of the Hybrid Theme shortly after the release of Wordpress 2.8.

There are many great frameworks to use. Some are a little more robust than others. Some of the frameworks work well with child themes, others work well in just modifying into a theme. Finding a good base for the framework can allow you to make many different variations of a theme while maintaining the same basic functionality.  A child theme can be a simple CSS file that just changes the look and layout. Or it can include more functions or overwrite some of the framework files to change how the theme functions. Frameworks also allow for easier upgrading, since the child theme may only be one CSS file, you only have to upgrade to the new version of the framework.

Here you will find a list of some of the frameworks I found. Check them out and give them a try.

• Whiteboard
• Starkers
• Naked
• Thematic
• Hybrid
• Carrington
• Starter Theme
• Sandbox
• Vanilla
• WP Framework

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It’s here, the first public beta of Wordpress 2.7. I am very excited to get it installed and give it a test run. The final version is going to be delayed, but we can test out the new interface now. A release canidate will be available on November 10 and the final version will be comming about two weeks after that.

Get the first public beta here.

Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for Wordpress users, the company wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now.

Because this is a security issue, all WordPress users must upgrade. Fortunately, this new release updates only two files. If you don’t want to download the entire WordPress program just to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.

• wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
• wp-includes/version.php

Replacing two files is a lot easier than upgrading an entire WordPress installation. This has been the easiest to install update yet.

Source : John Chow

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After about two weeks of having continual database failures. My hosting company have moved my server. It now appears that everyting is running good. I haven’t noticed any problems since the move. Hopefully things stay that way.

When running Wordpress or any other site that requires MySQl. It become very frustrating when the database keeps crashing or having errors. With the constant worry of loosing everything sine your last backup.

Here are two handy plugins you can use to back up your Wordpress Database. You Wordpress site is nothing with out the database behind it. But you can only use these plugins when your MySQL sever is running properly.

• WP-DB-Backup

  WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database. Plugin Homepage.

• WP-DBManager

  Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database. Plugin Homepage.

Hopefully you don’t run into any problems and not have a database backup. But if you use either one of these plugins you will have backups of you Wordpress install. And can back up and running with out major problems.