WordPress 2.7.x

April 17th, 2009 omo Posted in Admin, Experimental | No Comments »

WordPress is well-loved and known for its technical simplicity from the back end. A lot of bloggers are not IT people so they don’t want to mess around with hacking php or tossing files around in shells or whatever. So with 2.7 there is now an “auto-update” mechanism.

WordPress 2.x is a relatively young platform, and we’re up to 2.7 already, and for every release (like 2-3 major ones for each 2.x increment–like 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2) they want you to upgrade… guh. I mean, okay, it’s something some bloggers do meticulously every month or two, but I can’t be bothered. Especially for those who have like multiple blogs, and each blogs have its own set of plugins that needs to be upgraded, and theme changes, et cetera. PITA.

The old automatic plugin upgrader had some flaws, didn’t work well. The new one, along with the overall WordPress upgrader, works like a charm. the only problem is you can only upgrade one thing at a time. So if you have 8 plugins to update like I do on this blog, you have to upgrade the main blog (1 set of user internetion) and use the upgrader 8 separate times. Not the same as uploading all the scripts via a FTP queue. But I’ll take what I can get.

Think I’m going to kick up a gear and try to revamp my anime blog soon. Still need to bribe some artists to do some header images for me. Like Eric. Ufufufufufu.

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