Okay I have not ranted in quite a while but yesterday I read a blog post that pissed me off. This person was recommending that people not upgrade to 3.0.4 because it might cause a problem with their plugins.
Now it is not always necessary to instantly make sure you upgrade each and every time that WordPress releases a new version. This would be good advice when WordPress makes the version changes like the upcoming change to 3.1 from 3.0.
It is not always good to upgrade immediately in these cases. This is when you are most likely to run into plugin and theme compatibility. Waiting can be a good thing at these times.
That being said 3.0.4 was a critical update. It was not done to make any more functionality but to fix a security hole. Recommending that people don’t upgrade on a security fix is flat out WRONG.
The upgrade before that was to fix a different hole but it was only for a specific problem. Here is what WordPress said “These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled.”
So telling people not to upgrade in this case if they don’t use remote publishing would be fine.
So enough ranting but you need to actually check what the update is about before recommending to others not to upgrade. Just my opinion.
Leave yours below in the comments.
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Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.
After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.
If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer.
WordPress has just released the next release candidate for version 3.1. (The latest trial balloon.) They have had to pare some things back with some of the Ajax functions.
When they released version 2 they commented that after releasing “Beta 1 came on Thanksgiving, RC1 on Christmas, and RC2 on New Year’s Day. We won’t be waiting for another holiday for the final release,” well there is a lot to check in the new release candidate so we may get the new release for Valentine’s Day.
All of that being said there are more than the usual changes in release candidate 3. You can see all of them on the WordPress blog.
If you are a theme or plugin developer that was looking to take advantage of the new Ajax features you will need to check out the latest information.
Will be playing with the new version on the beta blog and will report more later.
About the author
Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.
After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.
If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer.
New security release today from WordPress to versions 3.0.3.
According to the blog at WordPress “These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled.”
As I do it is a must upgrade for me. If you don’t use any outside methods to deal with your blog it may be optional for you.
If you are using a desk top app for your blogging like I do with Blog Desk or if you are using mobile phone apps with your blog you should definitely update.
a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2.
The majority of readers here are probably not effected but you should be aware.
Added the video on upgrading if you need it below.
The method of upgrading has not changed so even though it says 2.7.1 it is still valid.
About the author
Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.
After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.
If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer.
Back after taking 3 days off for a rare occasion and I just noticed that there was more new out abut WordPress 2.9. Seems there have been some problems with certain versions of PHP curl extensions.
This has caused some problems with scheduled posts and trackbacks. Personally I have had no problems but it does look like there will be a 2.9.1 very shortly as they are beta testing it right now.
With this news if you have not upgraded yet to WordPress 2.9 then I would recommend waiting until 2.9.1 is released. A few days to only upgrade once seems the best way to deal with it to me.
As I mentioned before Christmas I am really looking for your questions about blogging and WordPress in particular. I am looking to start a series of answers here very shortly. Your input is needed for the topics that matter to you.
About the author
Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.
After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.
If you would like help in building your business check out my coaching offer.
Amazing what always happens when I am busy – a new WordPress release. Course I have been busy playing plumber and getting ready for tonight’s call.
Just got a chance to upgrade and test the new release. Here is what WordPress says about the release.
The headline changes in this release are:
* A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
* Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
* Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
* Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
Glad to see them do this new hardening rather than wait for it to be incorporated in 2.9. There have been a few malicious items running around that this should help you to avoid.
That post also announced a plugin that I am testing called WordPress Exploit Scanner. It checks your data base and plugins for strange files but only notifies you it does not correct things which is good. Mine came out clean but will be checking regularly.
Added the auto upgrade video below. Make sure you grab your data base first just in case.
It was originally done for 2.7 upgrades but nothing has changed so no need for a new video.
Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before it, is clever: it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.
I always recommend you be using the latest version and this thing seems to be a nasty little bug. Have heard from a couple friends that they have had this and it is a bear to fox.
Make sure that you have your blogs updated to the latest version.
Okay another upgrade was released today and yes I may be a bit frustrated. On the one hand I am very happy that they address security flaws as quickly as possible but …
It is easy to get frustrated with the number of updates lately. Because it is a security update you should follow through on it and I have added the video below that walks you through the process. You can see the details of it on the WordPress blog.
Well for those looking for the newest version of WordPress they released the first beta version of 2.8 yesterday. I have added it to this blog today and it seems to be working fine so far.
Have been running the latest nightly builds on the beta blog so was not really surprised and did not expect any problems but Murphy does live at my house. Previously I covered some of the changes such as being able to add new themes the way that you can add plugins now.
So just a heads up that if the beta goes well and so far at least for me it has then you can expect the live release shortly.
Okay I have not ranted in quite a while but yesterday I read a blog post that pissed me off. This person was recommending that people not upgrade to 3.0.4 because it might cause a problem with their plugins.
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