Wordpress is another fantastic tool , which i guess is predominantly used by the world of webmasters. Some use it for SEO i.e web marketing and promotion, some use it as a CMS or Content Management Tool , some use it for the simplicity ( those who dont want to be bothered by building a website with HTML and all that crap ) , and some use it for the complexity - for taking it to another level by developing widgets and plugins and extending its usefullness …… and some use it as a Blog too ( if you can imagine that ) , lol :D. I started by using it as my Web Blog tool, in all honesty and have once used it as an alternative to building webpages , and currently intend to use it for pretty posting of Updates on this site and also hopefully some SEO .

However, with every Good comes the Bad , and it is no different with the case of Wordpress . Since , wordpress is soo goddamn famous and widely used , it is always a prey for evildoers and pranksters . Inside the Wordpress Admin Panel of any  WP installation, there is the famous “dashboard ” , which from time to time educates the world of bloggers on the cutting edge development news from the makers of WP . And my dashboard recently informed me that the download files of the Wordpress version 2.1.1 were compromised , and compromised in such a way , it makers me shiver on this warm summer night . acc. to the bulletin, i quote

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file.

As far as I remember , Wordpress was hosted by Yahoo! , and if the hackers could reach and modify inside Yahoo servers , that is a frightening news. Nevertheless , i have not and will not stop using Wordpress , there is simply too much goodness inside it . What i propose to do is what the developers of Wordpress have asked i.e. lookout for those who have not known of this news and continue to use the vulnerable version, and warn them . And furthermore , I would also like to get into skinning wordpress , maybe not today but soon .

On a sidenote , since i was talking of people extending wordpress , just a few minutes back, i installed a fantastic wordpress plugin , i.e  the Wordpress Sitemap Plugin developed by this wonderful fellow at http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final