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Published: Jul 22, 2008 - 12:06 pm
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News Source: http://www.sephyroth.net
Published: Jul 22, 2008 - 12:06 pm
Story Found By: Snoskred 1405 Days ago
Category: Social Media
13 Comments
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I’ve had only minor problems with 2.6 but I have to say I really wish wordpress would update far less frequently and proivide support longer. Version 2.5 came out in March and here we are 4 months later with another huge update
I completely agree with you, Graywolf. Unfortunately I think Wordpress have stopped listening to the people who are using their product - they’re not hearing us anymore. ;(
"Among the little notes they included was that 2.3 would no longer be supported. It’s something I hadn’t mentioned when I blogged about it in the past, but it’s something that is important when you have a large userbase."To be fair to WordPress, I work for one of Technorati’s top 10 blogs and we were able to upgrade to WP 2.5 from 2.3 without any problems. I understand you have a huge userbase but the upgrade shouldn’t be an issue. I also think that the WordPress team was rather confident in their upgrade that they considered it not to be problematic. Maybe they are being short-sighted, though.However, all in all, this is a well-researched post (especially with regards to all the blog posts you added on the bottom that indicated problems with 2.6). Personally, I saw a LOT more problems with 2.3/2.5 and was happy to see an upgrade to 2.6 -- and v2.6 is working much better than all previous versions I’ve used.
I counted 12 releases in 2007, not including betas. Still love it though.
I’m dumping wordpress for drupal. Sick of wasting time fixing hacked sites.
@DarkMatter - do you keep up with the updates? I’ve seen people get hit but luckily I’ve never had to deal with that issue. I wonder if certain niches tend to get hit more than others?
Yeah, I usually upgrade to new versions within a day or two. I’ve got a couple of sites I’m using WP for content management. I’ve experienced hit and run hacks where I fix things and the hacker doesn’t return. But now I’ve got this russian ip checking one of my sites every month to replace pharma links every time I remove them. I’ve had no luck keeping him out despite completely reinstalling WP and restoring from a clean backup. Maybe I just suck at security but I figure Drupal will be less of a target.
I got smacked by malicious code when I upgraded to 2.5 about a day after they released the fix for the vulnerability that allowed it, because I generally like to wait to hear if the upgrade is going to break my site before I install it. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that my site had been exploited until I got an email notification that I had been removed Google’s index because of malware on my site!It’s so frustrating. You never know whether updating your WP will do more harm than leaving it alone.
I am not strong on updating-just-because-they-have-released.<div><div>Security update? Bang, set the time aside and update everything</div><div></div><div>Pretty new whizz bang feature release? I’ll wait a few days or weeks, especially until after the first flurry of bug reports and release of the first security update. What do I care about features? The old version weren’t broke ;)</div><div></div><div>I have to confess, I have a site somewhere still running 1.5, IIRC, because the upgrade is too hard (hacked install) and *the new features have no benefit to this site*</div></div>
Yeah Darkmatter, I’m moving to drupal as well. Less plugins and templates, more technically competent from what I see. More tech users, less mortgage brokers :).Wordpress is teetering on the edge of a php-nuke. Really heavy penetration, then not listening to users, producing whacked out buggy code, and eventually people fork far enough that you become obsolete.
I’ve had to start offering to do the wordpress upgrades for the clients I provide hosting to. The bloggers do not all know how to do them, some just will not do them even if it is a security fix, so it made sense for us to just include the upgrades in their hosting package.I wish they would do less updates as well. It seems like they want to be more like a CMS and less like a blogging platform with each upgrade.
@wheel Yep no doubt Drupal is more heavy duty and better coded but I’ve been worried about the security on that too. When Earl was setting up Threadwatcher.org he went with Drupal, as NickW had done with the origional TW. One of the guys hacked into the default install within minutes so he changed to WP. I’m not saying that Drupal is less secure than WordPress but it does seem you have to learn how to secure the platform. With WP we already have a package of security mods and proceedures in the office so it feels the safer option at the moment still. I’d be really interested in your and Darkmatter’s experiences though.
Well, my new site at SEO Aware was built with wordpress and all i can say is that there were problems after problems after the last 2 updates. The site is working well now, but lots of things to work through.