Posts Tagged ‘upgrade’

It is important to upgrade your wordpress to 2.8.2.
WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.  Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade page of your blog’s admin.
I use the [...]

Upgrade to 2.8.1 with internal upgrade function.

It is simply to do the upgrade to WordPress 2.8.
No risk, no error. Fast.

Update three plugins today.
The most important is to upgrade AdSense Manager to Advertisement Manager.
Now this plugin can handle not only AdSense ads, but also AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks.
So good to use these ad platform to make money from your posts.

Just login the admin, then Tools > Upgrade > Automatically
Less than 15 seconds. It is finished.
Don’t wait, just login and click it to protect your WordPress.

phplist has a very important security update.
phpBB’s official site is hacked because of this issue for weeks.
To upgrade phplist is simple.

BACKUP your database!
BACKUP your old config.php file, or optionally backup your whole PHPlist so you can rollback if something would go wrong.
Replace your old PHPlist with the new version.
Copy your configuration files to lists/config or [...]

Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 is easy.
The dashboard is totally different. It takes time to get familiar with it.
Anyway, it is a big version and big change from the back end.
PS. new version Simple Tag plugin works OK on WP 2.7

30 minutes to update Ubuntu 8.04LTS.
1.5 hours to upgrade Ubuntu from 8.04LTS to 8.10.
All done yesterday night.

The next version Ubuntu, v8.10 will be release tomorrow, Oct. 30 2008.
If you are using 8.04 (Hardy) then you can update directly to 8.10 (Intrepid). In other cases you should follow a sequential upgrade path and not skip any of the releases (unless you are on a LTS release).

“Backup important files”. Although the upgrades preserve [...]

This blog is upgraded to 2.6.3 last week manually.
Nothing changes. Only for security issue.