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By: Time For Another Wordpress Upgrade « John Chow dot Com

Time For Another Wordpress Upgrade « John Chow dot Com — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:45:12 +0000

[...] Barely 10 days after the release of Wordpress 2.0.6, Wordpress has upgraded it with version 2.0.7. It is recommended that everyone upgrade to this latest version. Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running WordPress 2.0.6 or lower upgrade to this new version. [...]

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:10:32 +0000

I never really paid attention to the dashboard other than moderating comments. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:18:48 +0000

Thanks John - I just updated

By: Pallab

Pallab — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:14:35 +0000

John you should mention this

After upgrading to WordPress 2.0.6 or WordPress 2.1 Beta, your FeedBurner feed will, at times, give you an “invalid xml” error, and “FeedMedic” will show you something like this:

Your server disconnected us before sending the full source feed content. If your blogging platform is TextPattern, this is a known bug, and a fix can be found here: http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=11247

More info and solution here : http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/317

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:23:32 +0000

Well I’d think that would depend on what files were changed. I mean if you’re just uploading and overwriting all the Wordpress files, some changes could be lost.

Of course one could always just grab a CVS diff file and manually apply the changes.

By: John Chow

John Chow — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:05:25 +0000

Ed - No you don’t. Those changes will be maintained.

By: Ed Lau

Ed Lau — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:58:42 +0000

Will I have to make all the changes that I’ve done to the Wordpress files again?

By: Stew

Stew — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:23:30 +0000

My blog has had a host of problems, and still has a few, that I wonder how most people figure out. I consider myself extremely tech savvy, so I usually just drill down straight into the code to fix the problem, but what about the people who don’t write PHP or MySQL etc? How would they go abouts fixing these problems? I’ve searched up on WordPresses’ support database and most of the tickets are from last year which looks like a time period with a much different wordpress version.

Hopefully this version of wordpress will fix a problem I’m not looking forward to fixing /rant

Stew

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:32:58 +0000

Wordpress took less than 5mins to set up when I was playing with it one day. I was actually using it only to figure out how I could make a plugin for my RecentPost Dynamically Created Image for Wordpress.

A friend of mine showed me the backend to Wordpress for his site and I must say everything is layed out really nice.

But like other posts if you want to play with it to see if it is for you check out Wordpress.com. They host it for you. If you like it and want to use it I would suggest obtaining your own domain name, hosting it on your own site and downloading the wordpress.org version.

My site is custom made and it’s backend isnt as extensive as Wordpress but I’m happy with what I have and if I need to add something/customize something I can.

By: eclipse

eclipse — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:07:21 +0000

I took a look at the word press site last night. I think ill take your advice Gareth and try a regular account first. If i like it I’ll start another site with it and then decided if i wanna switch my blog over. It seems word press is the standard for hosting your own blog, and every site I go to seems to be word press friendly.