Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.
…and it’s still just as much of a pig as it ever was to upgrade yet we still get the upgrade now alerts and security hassles. The only 2 plugins I can find to hand, the creatively named “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin” and “Instant Upgrade plugin for WordPress”: The first refuses to reactivate my plugins meaning I have to print-to-preview the plugins screen then go through reactivating them (please let me just disable the pointless plugin deactivation); and the second refuses to recognise my ftp set as being valid but is at best vague about what might be wrong (although the other plugin seemed happy).
So why the fuck isn’t there a built in WP upgrade system? The plugin upgrader is getting there (why it goes to a new window and doesn’t use AJAXy goodness I dont understand) so bits are in place there somewhere.
Don’t spose you know whether you know if the various things that got broken in terms of xmlrpc have been fixed yet..?
I wasnt aware of these broke xmlrpc
Upgrade functionality? Heh, you must be joking good sir. ;)
There is a chasm between installation and upgrade that should have been addressed as part of the launch of 2.5. The message has been sent for a long time on that - not sure anyone is listening.
Good luck on that.
True, Im sure I was amongst those whinging about upgrade functionality around WP1.3/1.5. There was lots of talk at the time of keeping the WP admin clear of cruft and whilst the interface has definitely got better (the 2.5 colour scheme whils not great is miles ahead of the previous blue and dark blue happy-fest (sarcasm)) they have, somewhat paradoxically considering the ‘no cruft’ stance’, made the admin more ‘crufty’ with extra features which really should have taken a back seat to an easy upgrade system.
WP does literally take 5 minutes to install, but the upgrade process is an activity I’m sure very few WP users (even experience users) relish.