I noticed this bilingual font problem in WP3.0 today, when I created a new blog, which needed bilingual titles and posts. The blog is www.ApnaGaon.in which needs use of English and Hindi. Apna gaon (अपना गाँव) means our village in India. You can see the Hindi font in the words inside the bracket, because BlogEasily.com is using newer version 3.1. But, in new installations of WordPress 3.0 (and dashboard updates to version 3.0.1), the non-English font would change to ????.
After a lot of hunting around it turned out that the problem could be rectified by changing the CHARSET reference in wp-config.php.
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
I changed the CHARSET reference utf8 to utf16 and voila, everything’s just like it should be!
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf16');
Looks like the issue is rectified in WP3.1, because this testing blog, which currently uses beta WP3.1, did not have this bilingual font problem.
Between my last post on 6/24 and today 6/28, someone purporting to be from a site/email with a .CN TLD, hacked this site and displayed some religious content. May that person rot in their own religion’s hell!
The page that was hacked was the index.php in the twenty-ten theme folder. My wp-admin password was also changed. After discovering the hack today, I followed the guide specified here – http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked – and since you can read this, my blog is back to normal now.
Now, just got to figure where the leak was? Was it at the webhost? Or was it something in the WP 3.1 alpha?
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Site’s now updated to WordPress 3.1 alpha. Hey, the automatic update now has a link – go to dashboard – below the update commentary!
WordPress 3.0 finally released today. Get more info from the official page -
http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/
WordPress 3.0 beta 2 has been released with improvements/changes to the menu UI and importer & exporter tools.
Used the beta tester plugin to upgrade to latest beta automatically. If you do the same, be sure to use the bleeding edge option or the plugin will revert the installation to the last stable development nightly build.
Creating/managing the menus is now intuitive. Cool!
Import tool makes it a lot easier to migrate from other blogging systems and from backups.
Export has more options. A normal user may not realize the utility of these options but folks maintaining tens of blogs on different hosts will appreciate the export features.
Cool!
The new default theme Twenty Ten (after the year 2010, of course) is cool. A standard set of nice header graphics with option to add your own; Option to change the background; And the menus feature – where you can pull any URL or an internal page or a category add up to ease the structuring of your blog like a website.
Then we have 6 widget areas – primary & secondary on the right sidebar and 4 on the footer. Items that can be added include a navigation menu – one of the custom menus that we created!
I have mentioned earlier in a review (for version 2.8) on GoDaddy hosting connection – who needs any thing else with WordPress around. And this is version 3.0!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
