Users of various WordPress plugins including but not limited to WPtouch, W3Total Cache, and AddThis should send a special thanks Automattic’s way tonight — they just saved your ass. The popular WordPress blogging platform company (which Gadgetsteria is also run off of) had a minor security scare earlier this afternoon. The plugins (and many more) listed above had several “suspiscious” comments posted that turned out to be backdoors allowing hackers...

Wordpress.com has been hacked — this according to an official post by Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg on the website’s blog. “Anything and everything” could have been revealed”, says the post. Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed. We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to...

WordPress owner Automattic has just released the last WordPress app, this time for Windows Phone 7. With the new app, WP7 users can quickly and easily edit comments, write posts, and monitor stats. The app is a free download in the Windows Marketplace. Hopefully the WP7 version works better than the current iOS WordPress app (hint: it’s garbage). Any WP7 users care to chime in with your experience? Via: ...

Individual app updates aren’t usually something we cover, but seeing as how Gadgetsteria depends on me writing…a lot…and WordPress to cater those words to you, I figured it was appropriate. Specifically, the latest WordPress mobile app to see this update is for iOS. The name of the game is bug fixes and minor improvements. That’s A-OK by me. After a pathetic attempt to write and post an article via WordPress for iOS this weekend, I can only hope...

WordPress has come quite a long ways in only a few years to the point that a massive chunk of the internet is now powered by the blogging/site building tool. Today, WordPress 3.0 has officially been released. With over 1,217 bug fixes, a new theme called “Twenty Ten”, and a lighter admin interface, WordPress 3.0 is definitely a major upgrade. The list of improvements are literally too long to list here. But a video would capture it all in a much easier...