Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.

Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Sabre is one solution which will stop these robotized visitors!

List of available features:

Inclusion of a captcha in the registration form
Selection of the captcha’s complexity
Selection of the background colour for the captcha image
Inclusion of a math test in the registration form
Selection of the math test’s complexity
Inclusion of a text test in the registration form
Random or fixed choice of the test to run
Unobstrusive tests to detect if registration is done by humans or not
Registration blocked if Javascript is unsupported by the browser
Registration blocked if visitor’s IP address is found on ban lists
The site administrator can validate the user registration (monosite only)
The user can validate his registration by clicking on a link sent by mail (monosite only)
Limited number of days for user confirmation. Without being confirmed within the period of time, the user account is disabled (monosite only)
Log on prohibited before user confirmation (monosite only)
User is allowed to choose his password when registering on the site (monosite only)
User must agree with a warning text, disclaimer or general policy note when registering
User must give an invitation code during registration
Main statistics displayed on the site’s dashboard
Custom logo on logon/registration screen (monosite only)

All these features are activated by parameters. Thus, Sabre is flexible enough and fits the protection policy you define for your blog. Here is a link to this free plugin.

Here are a few of our favorite new features in WordPress 3.0:

1. You can run multiple blogs from one WordPress install. WordPress Mu is part of the core WordPress code now. This new feature is called Multisite now
2. Customizable menus are now part of the core, instead of being dependent on themes
3. New default theme – Twenty Ten as Kubrick has been retired.
4. Custom background color is choose-able with a visual color picker

For more details checkout WordPress Thelonius

Here is a link to the WP Minify Plugin

There are not many changes in the layout and design but WP 2.8 fixed over 700 bugs and improved themes, widgets, taxonomies, and its overall speed by using script compression and concatenation.

Notable improvements:

• Browse the entire theme directory and install theme with one click
• CodePress editor – for people who likes to tweaks themes or plugins as it provides syntax highlighting
• Widgets interface redesigned – edit widget on the fly, drag & drop widget, duplicate widgets, etc.
• New Screen Options on every page in Dashboard – better customization by allowing you flexibility to arrange items showing on each page
• Improvements to the script loader: allows plugins to queue scripts for the front end head and footer, adds hooks for server side caching of compressed scripts, adds support for ENFORCE_GZIP constant (deflate is used by default since it’s faster)

Further details on all the new features available on WordPress 2.8 can be viewed here.

Remember to consider backing up anytime you perform a major modification to your blog

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