WordPress Upgraded…again
I’m starting to get tired of all the WordPress upgrades made necessary by recurring security vulnerabilities. Both of the last two minor releases of WordPress have been for security updates. That doesn’t install a lot of faith in them, especially when I work with someone who had their WP installation hacked.
Anyway, I’m up to WP 1.5.1.3 now. I wish the upgrade involved less “copy files here, remove these, untar that, copy to here.” Would it be so difficult to include a script that manages all that crap for you? They’ve got the process well documented enough that it shouldn’t be hard to script.
July 14th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
I have a feeling my days of using WordPress are numbered.
July 14th, 2005 at 3:33 pm
Many thanks to WP for fucking up the RSS feed so that the last 10 articles look new again.
July 14th, 2005 at 3:36 pm
I have a feeling my days of letting people post anonymously without at least their first name are numbered.
July 15th, 2005 at 10:43 pm
Yeah, doing these WordPress upgrades gets a bit tiring. In my case, I’ve hacked a few of the files to fix bugs or add functionality and every time I upgrade WordPress, I have to remember to reapply my patches.
One of these days I am going to write a script that wgets the .tar.gz file, unpacks it, copies files, and then reapplies all of the patches in a “patches” directory.