Comments on: WordPress releases and betas

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:30:35 +0000

Thanks for the link and thanks for the testing work you do!

By: John Bollwitt

John Bollwitt — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:09:58 +0000

To me, it’s always good to make the upgrades as they come out for WordPress. Don’t know if you caught this a while back, but my blog was hacked because I didn’t make an upgrade. I haven’t seen a version of WP come out that didn’t include some sort of security update.

The process can be a little intimidating, but I can sum it up in a few easy steps. Use the WP backup plugin to back up your blog, download a copy of your theme off your FTP server, and then copy all the WP files to your site EXCEPT for the “wp-contents” folder. Then hit that update URL that is specified. The whole turning plugins off before hand is totally needed at WP.org recommends. However, turn them off and back on after an upgrade, one by one. Even if the plugin is compatible with the new version, I’ve run into plugins that need to be kind of rebooted to make them play nicely.

Hope that helps.

By: David

David — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:25:26 +0000

Hi John,
I’m on WordPress as well, as you may have noticed. Is the upgrade as scary as the instructions looked for one a while back? (There were all kinds of backups and turning of this thing off and that thing on…
I also have a few (not many) plugins that I worry wouldn’t make the jump with me – audio player and Akismet (although I suspect the latter is probably OK, since it ships with the original package)
Or should I just wait for 2.1 where there are clearly new features?

By: John Bollwitt

John Bollwitt — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:33:11 +0000

Make it two quarters and you might be onto something. :p

You’re on TypePad though. I’d make you a switcher. I’m good at that, ask Rebecca.

By: GZ Expat

GZ Expat — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:42:40 +0000

You wanna do mine too? I’ll give ya a quarter!