WordPress filesystem abstraction – and automatic updates June 11, 2009
Posted by evilzenscientist in : patching,wordpress , 1 comment so farWay back in the not-so-distant past the only way to update WordPress was to download (wget/ftp) updates, plugins and themes, unpack them and perform the update/install.
It is possible to pull the latest builds from subversion – but that’s really focused on the core hacker.
New in WP 2.7 was the ability to update automatically.
There were a few challenges with this – permissions, PHP modules, various host implementations – but I found it generally quite successful.
I found a great FAQ here – http://dd32.id.au/2009/02/20/wordpress-filesystem-abstraction-faq/
From the same author is a very cool plugin – core-control – it lets you enable and disable various transports – and shows the status of them.
WordPress 2.6 July 14, 2008
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist,wordpress , add a commentWordPress 2.6 is live; I just updated from 2.6 RC1 to 2.6 live here.
Download from http://wordpress.org/download/
Main highlights:
- post differencing
- support for Google Gears
There’s an offical blog post about it here: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/07/wordpress-26-tyner/ – with a great video overview.
WordPress 2.3.2 December 29, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : patching,wordpress , add a commentNow live:
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-232/
Download from:
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.zip
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.tar.gz
Works well so far.
WordPress 2.3.1 and Windows Live Writer November 7, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : Technology,wordpress , add a commentJust a quick note; WordPress 2.3.1 adds support for WLW Keywords.
Some nomenclature changes – tags to keywords; but it works just great.
Here are the Keywords in WLW:
… and the corresponding tags in WordPress:
Securing a WordPress blog October 3, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : Technology,evilzenscientist,wordpress , 2 commentsI’ve been hosting a family blog and photo site for a good friend for over a year.
They decided recently to ‘lock down’ the site and restrict access to both the blog and the photos to family and friends only.
I spent some of yesterday doing this.
I’ve extensively use WPG2 to integrate WordPress and Gallery2 – and I use the permissions and roles within Gallery2 to successfully limit access to pictures. The most striking example of this is with my sisters Cub Scout web site; non members can read blog posts; but not view pictures.
Securing the WordPress side was a little more tricky. Drupal has a very strong permissions module -especially useful for the anonymous user. Nothing like that for WordPress.
In the end I used the post-levels plugin from Filipe Fortes - it needed some SQL mungling to work with WordPress 2.3 – but the end results were pretty good.
Blog backend updates September 26, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : patching,wordpress , add a commentI’ve just updated most of the hosted blogs to WordPress 2.3 – so far so good.
I need to update the integrated photo stuff to Gallery 2.2 as well – that’s going to be a lot more involved and needs some good planning and change control.
WordPress updates September 16, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : patching,wordpress , add a commentAway from home and the WordPress updates come in..
2.2.3 is a security update; also 2.3 Release Candidate 1 should be out tomorrow.
I also bumped the version of subscribe2 on the family blog – that fixed a lot of problems 
WordPress 2.3 beta 1 August 28, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : patching,wordpress , add a commentThe paint is still wet – but it looks like it works
Some plugins (feedwordpress) look like they are broken.
I’m looking forward to this release – improvements to the javascript, better url redirection and at last built in tags!
The tags look like they are using a similar idea to the Drupal taxonomy concepts – should be interesting.
WordPress updates August 5, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : Technology,blogging,evilzenscientist,wordpress , 1 comment so farI’ve not blogged about WordPress patches and updates for a while – I’ve been just that busy.
This weekend another two patches – for 2.2.x and 2.0.x
So far so good – easy and clean updates.
Worth an upgrade too – looking at the code changes there seems to be a lot of additional checking and url handling safety.
The now never-ending WordPress mill March 26, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : blogging,wordpress , add a comment
From the dev lists:
The target release date for WordPress 2.2 is less than a month away, April 23rd.
Phew. Patch and relax. Update and relax. Patch and relax.
When Matt and the others from Automattic said they’d be stepping up the frequency of updates – I didn’t expect this
It’s good though. Lots of new features promised for 2.2 and especially 2.3/2.4 and beyond.
