LinuxTent

After long procrastination, for about a year, our wordpress engine that render LinuxTent was upgraded eventually from 2.6 to 2.8.4 . The main reason to upgrade was to fix the security hole in the wordpress versions before 2.8.4. The warnings were spread over the internet that it is a serious attack.  According to some analysis the threat was due small bug in admin options file permissions, for more info look here.

The upgrade was easy with the help of the official upgrade tutorial,  FileZilla and PHPMyAdmin. It was just a matter of downloading, uploading and overwriting. Till now everything works fine. The new wordpress panel interface is really awesome . You feel you want to write more and more .

All the plugins were upgraded successfully except the Automatic Upgrade plugin. Anyway, I don’t think I want it anymore, especially that worpdress provide that nowadays by default. Check your /wp-admin/update-core.php to see if you have it or not.

I think I should maintain a backup for the wordpress in my repository, not sure if databases are maintained under common version control systems.

For anyone who did not upgrade yet, don’t let terrorism to take over the internet. Fight fear and confusion by upgrading your wordpress. Don’t forget that you are always standing on the shoulders of giants, Wordpress !.