WordPress Upgrade Imminent
Posted by Stropp on July 29, 2008Okay. So imminent isn’t really the right word, but I wanted to give you a heads up anyway.
It’s been a few months now since the last upgrade and the WordPress people always want me to keep my blog software up to date for, you know… security reasons.
Personally I prefer to wait a bit and catch some of the other impressions around the web before I upgrade. While WordPress is usually pretty tight, they don’t always make the decisions that their bloggers would like. It was the last update, 2.5 I think, where they changed a whole bunch of things around and copped some flak for it.
This time they added a feature to toggle the XML RPC flag (I think that’s what it is called.) If it is switched on it allows a blogger to use an external program to publish to their blog. I use Windows Live Writer, and on the Mac Ecto can be used to write a blog post offline and then publish the post later. However, in WP 2.6, this feature is turned off by default. If I didn’t know about it, I’d be freaking out, wondering why I couldn’t publish a post. Crommmmm!
That’s why I wait.
So, enough of the rambling.
I expect to do the upgrade tomorrow afternoon my time. That will be sometime in the late evening or early am, US time. There’s a bit involved in this: taking backups, making sure plugin’s are up to date, and then actually doing the upgrade and making sure everything is working.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Thanks for the help with getting Gameslaw off the ground Stropp. You might find a problem with the Popularity Contest plugin, in that I couldn’t get it to activate without a fatal error. Other than that, most everything works fine. (We’re getting off the ground with a bit of content before transferring over to the main part of the domain. I’m in no hurry, since I have until PAX 2008 before we really start advertising the site).
No worries Dan, glad I could help. Though that doesn’t sound good about the Popularity Contest plugin. I might have to do a bit of checking around for an update. Either that or find something else.
Just an update: Apparently the issue is with a single line in the PC plugin and that it was also a problem in 2.5.x. Told you I didn’t update often enough. Anyway, I’ll do the upgrade (might be a bit later in the day now) and have a go at fixing the plugin once I’ve done that. The blog might look a bit odd while PC isn’t working, but I should have it fixed soon after.
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