With the recent release of WordPress 3.3, “Sonny”, there would most likely be issues during the upgrade process for some site administrators and deployers. WordPress.org’s forum has a “master list” of tips and tricks to try to resolve those issues, preferably before filing an issue ticket with them. Of course, if you’re going to undertake [...]
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Jane Would Like You to Be Ready for WordPress 3.2
July 3, 2011 at 10:55 PM · 1 comment
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 [...]
Tagged as: Jane Wells, MySQL, PHP, upgrade, WordPress
The shocking news about Borderlands… What could it be? A two-fer? A three-fer? Whoa!
Tagged as: Borderlands, game, Gearbox, upgrade, Xbox LIVE
Just in the nick of time (well, actually, merely before the end of July), the first maintenance release for WordPress 3.0 became available yesterday. This provides some bug fixes (over 50) that were discovered since the 3.0 release, or were relegated to a lower status to not impede that major release. If you have not [...]
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
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 [...]
