Posts Tagged ‘wordpress upgrade’

December 20th, 2009

WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips, WordPress WishList

WordPress 2.9 (Carmen) has been officially released and has quite a few new features. Some are visible and right on the page while many others are under the hood.
One of the features that I really like is the ability to bulk update my plug-ins. In previous versions of WordPress you had to update each plug-in individually by clicking on the automatic upgrade link in the WordPress plug-in, entering your FTP credentials and then waiting for the update to happen. If you had a lot of plug-ins this process could take a while to do.
To utilize the new bulk update process go to the Tools>Upgrade menu in the admin panel:

There you will find a screen that looks something like this":

Select the check boxes for all the plug-ins you want to update and then press the Upgrade Plug-in button at the bottom and you will then be taken to [...]

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Fare Thee Well WordPress 2.0

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Richard Hay

August 2nd, 2009

WordPress

Mark Jaquith recently posted over at the WordPress.org blog that the WordPress 2.0.x Legacy Branch is Deprecated – in other words retired and no longer supported for the most important aspect – security updates. It had gotten a little long in the tooth as it was published back in late December 2005.
However, WordPress 2.0 was revolutionary in many ways. Think back to WordPress 2.0 and how that changed WordPress as we knew it at the time. Some of those changes we now take for granted included:

Completely Redesigned Backend
Included Spam and Backup Plugins
Inline Uploading
Faster Posting
Post Preview
User Roles labelled
Header Customization

WordPress 2.0 certainly set us on the path to the WordPress we know and love today. Congratulations 2.0 on a terrific service life – rest in peace “Duke”.
Time For An Upgrade?
What does this mean for you as an individual blogger, website developer or site admin? Well the first thing it means in my [...]

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WordPress 2.8.1 now available

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Mark Ghosh

July 9th, 2009

Blogging News, WordPress

WordPress 2.8.1 is now available for download or upgrade according to the WordPress Development Blog. This release includes a bunch of bug fixes and security updates, including an important one that affects a few plugins (details here). The update highlights are listed on the dev blog post and all the changes since 2.8 are on the Trac. I don’t see the upgrade bar on this blog yet, but it should be soon. Since 2.8.1 is now released, I wish Dev4Press would redo their benchmarks.

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WordPress 2.6.2 Released

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Mark Ghosh

September 9th, 2008

WordPress, WordPress Security

WordPress 2.6.2.: This release is in response to a recent warning to developers from Stefan Esser about the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and weaknesses of mt_rand(). The issue at hand that forced the release is discussed in detail on the WordPress.org blog post linked above. Basically the attack is complex, is dependent on open registration being turned on in your blog, but can be executed in theory and turns out to be more of an annoyance than an actual exploit.
If you have open registration on your blog, the WordPress.org team recommends that you upgrade your install to WordPress 2.6.2 A handful of other fixes are also included in this upgrade. Here is a list of changed files.

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