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.
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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