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Wordpress - Urgent upgrade

The guys over at Wordpress have rolled out an urgent upgrade up to version 2.6.2 to protect against a recent vulnerability which, although difficult to execute, does pose a threat.
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand().  With his help we worked around these problems and [...]

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Time for some upgrades?

Back in November last year (how time flies!) I posted about a Wordpress plug-in (Wordpress Automatic Upgrades) which saves so much time and energy when updating to the latest and greatest Wordpress. Well, I updated to the new 2.6.1 today using that utility, and noticed that the VPS is beginning to have a hard time [...]

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Wordpress automatic upgrades

This is so cool! I don’t make a habit of writing about plugins for individual items of software, but this one stands out as a keeper. Wordpress Automatic Upgrades is a neat little plugin for Wordpress that will automatically upgrade your Wordpress blog to the latest release from Wordpress.
I decided to try it here so, [...]

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