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Google AdSense blog has clarified queries related to the new privacy policy and the display language within accounts, that arised after the updated our Terms and Conditions. The major clarification with AdSense Terms and Conditions fall into two broad categories, those are the new privacy policy and the display language within accounts. About privacy policy clarification, Google AdSense Team said that they can’t suggest any privacy policy language for publisher’s specific site, as all sites are set up differently and laws may vary across different countries. The AdSense publisher might wanna review online resources such as the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), which suggests language for data collection of non-personally identifying information.

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Well, Matt Mullenweg, one of the people that took it upon himself to create WordPress, has released WordPress 2.5 Release Candidate 1, which comes with some new features such as Faster load times, Multi-file uploads, New “Media Manager” for images, audio, video, etc, Built-in gallery function, Built-in (and pluggable) Gravatars support, New backend design, One-click auto-update for plugins, Reactivate plugins after a “Deactivate All Plugins” action, 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, Password strength checker, and many more.

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Well, as described at WordPress Planet on March 10, 2008 under title Weblog Tools Collection: Prepare For WP 2.5, that the WordPress 2.5 release is due anytime, it’s right time to go through upgrade checks to see if your blog is ready for WordPress 2.5. Lorelle Van Fossen, over at BlogHerald has written “WordPress Upgrade Preparation Checklist” to the pre upgrade checks you should perform. These include disabling and or removing old plugins, updating themes and plugins, validation, and checking for compatibilities. Btw, those Lorelle VanFossen’s writings could be concluded into five steps. (01) Check Compatibilities: Visit the WordPress Codex and check the WordPress Theme Compatibilities and WordPress Plugin Compatibilities lists to ensure that the theme and Plugins you are using will work with the new version. If there is a Plugin your blog is dependent upon, check with the author to ensure you have the updated version.

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Open source approaches differ from the proprietary model of software licensing (the closed source) by allowing other individuals and organizations to view, modify and redistribute the source code. Under the closed source model, source code must be hidden from the public and competitors who might otherwise reproduce, study or modify the code, etc.. Anyway, one of the open source software, or more to be precise, an open source weblog tool is WordPress.

That Weblog tool, which was developed by Matt Mullenweg, has contained much of the php code snippet that can be used for customizing our WordPress blog, one of these codes is to get and to publish recent post from RSS Feed. As we knew, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, or news headlines.¹

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1. Rss from Wikipedia [↩]

The latest stable release of WordPress, version 2.3.3, has been released on yesterday, February 5th 2008. This release addresses an urgent security vulnerability found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog. WordPress 2.3.3 also contain some other minor bugs. Anyway, if you are interested only in the security fix, and just wanna patch your blog against the XML-RPC vulnerability, so you can overwrite the existing xmlrpc.php file of your WordPress blog with xmlrpc.php of WordPress 2.3.3 in your WordPress installation directory.

However, do a full upgrade would be better than replacing the xmlrpc.php file, it also will integrate a few minor bugs fixes implemented into our WordPress lamme weblog . Thanks you .