gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » wordpress upgrade http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WordPress 2.9 Releasedhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/19/wordpress-2-9-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/19/wordpress-2-9-released/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:15:14 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=21577 The WordPress developers have released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script WordPress which can be downloaded from the official WordPress website. Users who have configured automatic updates can also upgrade to the new version of WordPress from within their blogs. It is however recommended to backup the files and database before initiating the update.

The new version comes with over 500 bug fixes, changes and enhancements which makes it a recommended download and install. Some of the new features include:

  • Trashbin: Posts that are deleted are now moved to the trash instead of being deleted irrecoverably. It is possible to recover posts from the trash at a later time.
  • Image Editor: A basic image editor that can be used to edit, rotate, scale and crop images.
  • Batch plugin support: Update up to ten plugins at once.
  • Video Embeds: video embeds for popular sites have become just a tad easier as it is now possible to simply paste the url into the post which will be turned into an appropriate viewer by WordPress automatically.
  • Automatic database optimization which can be enabled by adding define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true); to the WordPress config file.
  • Post Thumbnails options which can be used to display thumbnails in every post if the theme supports it.
  • Better SEO thanks to rel=canonical
  • Custom galleries with the ability to add pictures from several posts.

The complete list of changes can be viewed at WordPress Trac. Happy upgrading!

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The most important changes in WordPress 2.8.5 are therefor:

  • A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
  • Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
  • Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
  • Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

WordPress blogs are currently not announcing the new release. It is expected that this will change in the next hours so that the automatic update option becomes available for WordPress webmasters who use it to update their website. Webmasters who manually update their blog can visit the WordPress page to download the latest version of WordPress. Additional information about the security release are available in the blog post that announced the upgrade.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/21/wordpress-2-8-5-security-update/feed/ 4 Don’t upgrade to WordPress 2.3 yethttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/25/dont-upgrade-to-wordpress-23-yet/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/25/dont-upgrade-to-wordpress-23-yet/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:32:34 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/25/dont-upgrade-to-wordpress-23-yet/ The new version 2.3 of the blog script WordPress has been released about 12 hours ago and lots of webmasters are starting to prepare their blogs to upgrade their version to the recent one. There is however one difficulty with this new release which will affect a lot of webmasters who try to upgrade their blog.

The new version of WordPress introduces some elementary changes to certain functions which can very well break a few plugins that are installed on the blog in question. Mostly plugins that deal with categories are affected. One that I’m using for instance is the plugin Simple Tagging but a handful of other plugins like Ultimate Tag Warrior, Popularity Contest and Ajax Comments are affected as well.

Those plugins display error messages when opening the website which does not look great and could limit the display of the blog as well. I tried to update one of my minor blogs first which has all the plugins installed that I use at Ghacks as well and found out that the only possibility for me was to deactivate the plugin in question.

I suggest you build a local version of your blog and see if the upgrade to WordPress 2.3 breaks the design or displays errors messages. If that is the case I would wait for plugin updates to be released before making the switch.

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