MySQL

Jane Would Like You to Be Ready for WordPress 3.2

July 3, 2011 at 10:55 PM · 1 comment

in Operations,PHP,Social Software

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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Is Your WordPress Site Ready for Major Dependency Upgrade?

July 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM

in PHP,Social Software,Software

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 [...]

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End of Life for WordPress Dependencies: MySQL and PHP

July 25, 2010 at 1:00 AM

in Operations,PHP,Social Software,Software

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 [...]

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