Hi there guys and gals, just wanted to quickly say thank you for a great year and hope that you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We will be available over the festive season. We will be limited and having a few days off over the Christmas break.

You may have noticed we now have Live Support! This is not 24/7 BUT, if we’re not available you can send a message through which we’ll receive and be able to reply to ASAP.

We’re hoping that adding Live Support will be a real help and benefit especially for our new clients and anyone considering using Extreme Member who might have a few questions they would like answered before coming on board.

Anyway, feel free to drop by and have a chat sometime!

We’d just like to congratulate Vladimir our Head of Development and Internet Security at Extreme Member for well over 2 years now for his work and contribution to WordPress 3.0.2. Click here for more details.

It is interesting to note that at least one other Internet Hosting Company is claiming credit for Vladimir’s work.

In actual fact they have other security issues that are unrelated to this fix (they have a vulnerability in their actual hosting NOT in WP itself and recently had over 40 of their WP sites hacked – not related to the 3.0.2 bug fix), but because Vladimir has done some work on a Systems Admin level for them they are claiming they found the problem and had Vladimir fix it. This is not the truth!

Vladimir was not the first person to find this hole in WordPress as he notes in his post. But he was the first to report & fix it. He found some other vulnerabilities whilst fixing it.

As noted by Vladimir himself “Extreme Member is much more secure” than these other hosting companies. We have 24/7 monitoring and dedicated security experts on our team.

We’re very happy for Vladimir that he has been recognized for his good work with WordPress as he continues to make valuable contributions to the wider WP Open Source community too. Three cheers for Vladimir!! hip hip hooray!

Over the next few days we will be finalizing the upgrade to WP 3.0.1 for all clients sites. Please ensure that any additional themes and plugins that you’re running are compatible with WP 3.0+. If you have any questions please contact support.

On October 10th we will also be doing some software upgrades to our servers. There will be very minimal downtime <5 minutes.

Hi there guys and gals, this is just a real quick one that affects EVERYONE not just EM clients who use Email Marketing.

AOL very recently purged a huge number of their outdated email addresses.  This means that if you send mail to AOL you are probably experiencing an increase in bounces from AOL.

This will obviously be only temporary, as hard bounced email addresses are automatically ‘not eligible to receive email’ on the Extreme Member system which is great for our clients

Have a fantastic day.
Shane

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Hi guys, just a quick one. We’ve just been testing the ‘Post Alert’ (automated email notifications) for when you create a new post and we accidently made one live so a new email was sent out.

We apologise for that.

Have a great day,
Shane + the EM Team