There’s a lot of news about the recent security problems with old versions of WordPress. If you’re not keeping up to date with WordPress upgrades (the latest of this date is 2.8.4), you are putting yourself at risk.

For those who say that upgrading is a pain, it can be. But if you’re using a bunch of plugins that break with WordPress upgrades, then you’re opening yourself up to attack. Now is the time to ask yourself, do I really need that plugin? Or if you do, is there a newer version that’s better written? The new versions of WordPress make upgrading much easier, which reduces the pain in the future. And no matter how annoying an upgrade may be, rebuilding a site that’s been hacked into oblivion is much, much, much, much harder.

So, take the time to give your WordPress installs some love. It will save you a lot of pain and heartbreak in the end.

It’s been a while since there was an update to BloGTK. During the last period of development for BloGTK there were so many frustrations and so little time that I had to give up.

Flash forward to a few weeks ago when I’m putting together my new Ubuntu box—I notice that there’s a Python library for Blogger’s GData system installed. And it even has a nice system for interfacing with Blogger. When I last did work on BloGTK 3 years ago, I had a lot of the app built. Maybe it was time to take another shot?

This entry is being created in BloGTK 2.0. The build is nowhere near complete, but there has been enough progress that it’s safe to announce its existence to the world.

BloGTK 2.0 will add some great new features like:

• A completely revamped interface designed for multiple blogs
• A new editor, with integrated spellcheck, HTML syntax highlighting, and undo/redo.
• Support for multiple categories.
• Full support for Blogger
• Autodiscovery of weblog settings (if your blog template supports it
• And much more…

There is no release date for BloGTK 2.0, as it all depends on finding programming time in my busy schedule. However, this time the technical hurdles have been surpassed and it is possible to deliver the kind of program that users have been asking for.

There will be much more coming as development continues on the next generation of BloGTK.