Here’s a nice post by Jane Wells (yes, the one of WordPress fame) about the requirements for WordPress 3.2 and some rationale about the system changes being implemented for the latest version of the blogging software. The big news is actually not that big: the version of Oracle’s [ORCL] MySQL database and the PHP engine [...]
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Jane Would Like You to Be Ready for WordPress 3.2
July 3, 2011 at 10:55 PM · 1 comment
As mentioned by Matt on his blog, Automattic has taken the big leap into domain-registrarhood. Since WordPress.com and Automattic are inexorably tied to the blogging experience, as witnessed by the myriad of blog and blog-like sites built using the WordPress software and also hosted at the eponymous WordPress.com service, it is natural that Automattic eventually [...]
Is Your WordPress Site Ready for Major Dependency Upgrade?
July 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM
If you have been following along about the upcoming PHP and MySQL upgrade requirements for WordPress, you may have wondered, “Hey, is my WordPress site ready for the upgrade?” There is a way to tell (more-or-less conveniently): try the Health Check plugin for WordPress. While the description for the plugin declares that there will be [...]
End of Life for WordPress Dependencies: MySQL and PHP
July 25, 2010 at 1:00 AM
As many of you know, WordPress depends upon a variety of software packages to do the things that it does, as a weblog product (and some of you have extended it even further…). Two of these things are foundational items: PHP, the language and operational runtime for WordPress, and MySQL, the persistence datastore that WordPress [...]
Tagged as: MySQL, Oracle, PHP, programming, upgrade, WordPress
You may have noticed that we’re starting to use the Tell.im service in some of our links, including in this post. What is Tell.im? It is a URL shortening service, similar to many of the others floating around that help to take a very long URL and dramatically chop-it-down-to-a-shorter-length (hopefully). This will make some of our [...]
WordPress 2.9.2 Fixes a Security Vulnerability
February 16, 2010 at 8:21 AM · 5 comments
Yesterday, WordPress 2.9.2 was released to correct a bug in which “trashed” blog posts are visible by potentially unauthorized users. According to Ryan, this can occur when logged-in users attempt to browse the trash area; these users can view posts that belong to others, so sensitive or private information may be inappropriately accessible. Thomas Mackenzie [...]
WordPress 2.9.1 was released yesterday, after a relatively short beta and RC1 pair of cycles. Some of you may recall the controversy surrounding WordPress 2.9, surrounding some defects that were discovered shortly after its release– although some people have mentioned that the problems, they felt, were present even in the previous versions of the software. [...]
Stop the Insanity! Or, WordPress Development for 2010, a New Year’s Resolution
December 26, 2009 at 1:00 AM · 2 comments
I’ve always wondered how some popular open source and GPL projects keep going. Many times, they seem to implode upon themselves, whether due to internal or external forces imposing their undue influences upon the work at hand. The good ones realize that they are imploding and take measures to stop it from happening… and sometimes, [...]
Tagged as: change management, configuration management, programming, project management, release management, WordPress
