WordPress 2.6.2 Available for Download

I am starting to use wordpress too, still learning.

so, autoupgrades are fantastic or not? coz after reading all your comments, it got me thinking, maybe manual upgrades would be a bit better while deactivate the plug-ins, ftp newer files only mode and activate back the plug-ins, will it work?

cheers in advance for the answers.

I got a problem after successfully upgrading to 2.6.2. My theme's sidebar suddenly appear at the bottom of the page. and this is only happen on the homepage only. All blog post page act as normal. I've tried to change to other themes but it still the same. I'm thinking of re-installing my wordpress if i still cannot find a solution by end of the week. Anybody facing the same problem? Any help from you guys is very much appreciated.

Has anyone lost all their wordpress from the upgrade. Any suggests for the best way. Meaning does anyone put it on a separate or external HD?

Oh, i've got something else to say, i think you have to put back the category widgets on the sidebar... just to make it handy for us to switch category because we don't need to wait another seconds to go back to frontpage...

Yay! I just upgraded mine last night.

hoho. i just update to 2.6.1. I will update the latest one soon. Looks good huh!

Thanks for the headsup about the update. Sure, it might take a little bit of your time to update WP, but in the end, security is No. 1# priority.

I am not going to update. To be honest, I am fed up with wordpress. They don't even protect their PHP. Sure this helps, but I have to recode all my files. Here is what I am talking about.

http://thebestforumever.com/coding-lair/3425-wordp...

I used the Wordpress Automatice Upgrade Plugin for the first time today. My heart was racing everytime I hit the "Next Step" button as I went through the upgrade process.

I fully expected it to crap out on me, and cause me to restore my backups and my themes folders.

Tick, Tick, Tick... I waited. As if a bomb would explode any minute. Then... It happened.

My version had successfully upgraded with no errors! This plugin is awesome!

You can get it here: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress...

Hum, seem now I don't have time to blog as I keep on upgrading the 10 Wordpress blogs I own. I hope we will have soon an automatic Wordpress update like Mozilla :smile:

This may be off topic a bit, but you just gained 600+ readers for the last couple of days, amazing!

I will definitely be updating my personal blog tonight. Seems like it shouldn't be too difficult. I agree with everyone else though; there seems to always be new updates waiting for me on my dashboard.

The upgrades are crazy, but people should be glad that they don't ignore bugs.

someone should do a final update for wordpress so it will automatically prompt you to download the updates when there is one..sort of like windows update. (i hope no one else mentioned this already, if so, good idea :razz: )

Maybe they should start combining updates or something. I JUST upgraded.. It's hard to keep up with them almost if you don't pay attention.

Why can't there be a version of WordPress that works properly? Why are there all of these security updates? PHP is not the best language for building secure and stable applications.

It seems like everytime I get the bug worked out between my theme and the newest version of wordpress, they come out with another.

It's a never ending battle.

Its painful to keep updating wordpress every 40 days

Pain in the butt!

But it's incredibly important to do the security updates as quickly as possible. I know people that have had multiple sites pwned because of an unsecure script on just one of them.

Yes that is true and i have already update it, well i use the wordpress auto upgrade and all happen perfectly , and my blogs automatically upgrade to the latest version, download it from the wordpress extend. Just activated it and press upgrade that's all :)

Thanks for the heads up... I'll definitely get on to that.

So John is there an easier way to update (like an automatic way) so I don't have to keep accessing my files. Because this is really annoying me

Oh yikes! I'm glad they are atleast on top of things! Security risks scare me! I don't know what I would do if someone screwed with my passwords...find them and...well you get the the point... :twisted:

:/ I haven't finished updating all my other blogs from the last update. They are updating the software a little too much.

Coolio. Thanks for the security tip. Guess I know what will take up a couple of hours of my time this afternoon :(

maybe sometime I will create my first wordpress blog

I have found that the auto-update plugin works great for this. I tried to upgrade manually and had a complete disaster with one of my sites. So much so that I had to rebuild the entire database and reconstruct. I heard about the exploit yesterday and yes, it is time to get up to date.

I think that my webhost (hostmonster) is a little behind on the upgrade...i have to go into simplescripts to upgrade. It there another possible way to upgrade?

I wish we didn't have to update so often, it is a whole 'nother chore in itself

Another update? It's sick. So much time wasted in these incremental upgrades especially when you have a number of blogs. The automatic update plugin doesn't work consistently.

I think this is the main reason why more heavyweight blogs are using products from sixapart.

I am seriously thinking of migrating...

Wow, interesting bug. Time to upgrade for sure.