Upgrading to WordPress 1.5

At this very moment I’m upgrad­ing to WordPress 1.5. While it’s an upgrade I’ve been con­tem­plat­ing for a while, it was one I had intend­ed to put off for anoth­er month or two–at least until after I had fin­ished writ­ing my books and launched two new web­sites I have in the works. Regrettably, I don’t have the luxury.

Apparently today a secu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty was dis­cov­ered in WordPress–not the ver­sion I was using, but that does­n’t mat­ter to my host­ing provider. At 2 PM EST this after­noon the provider issued an (unrea­son­able) edict that all sites using WordPress of any ver­sion must be upgrad­ed to the lat­est inside of 24 hours, or those sites would be deactivated.

The com­pa­ny does­n’t care that they sent the notice at 2 PM on the Friday before a hol­i­day weekend–they will enforce the dead­line. They were quite unsym­pa­thet­ic when I con­tact­ed them for more time. I have mul­ti­ple sites run­ning on or using WordPress, and I real­ly could­n’t afford the time to…

  1. Back up the data­bas­es and pages of each one;
  2. Train myself on the new WordPress ver­sion (a sig­nif­i­cant upgrade);
  3. Recode the major­i­ty of each high­ly cus­tomized site to the new WordPress themes system;
  4. Install the upgrade;
  5. Test the whole thing, and;
  6. Fix the inevitable glitches.

So much for my plans to take my daugh­ter to the movies tonight.

2 thoughts on “Upgrading to WordPress 1.5”

  1. Christy

    was it the same prob­lems mov­able type was hav­ing last week? I was get­ting 500 serv­er errors; it had some­thing to do with cPanel and upgrades. I just switched from grey­mat­ter to MT, so I was dis­gust­ed. But my host helped me out and all is work­ing now (cross­es fingers).

  2. Pariah S. Burke Post author

    I’m afraid I don’t know about MT’s issues. It might have been the same thing. I just got a notice from my host­ing provider that a seri­ous secu­ri­ty exploit had been dis­cov­ered (the hard way), and every­one using WP need­ed to upgrade.

    I start­ed out on GreyMatter a few years ago. AFter a year I switched to MT. A year after that, I jumped to WP, where I’ve been hap­py since.

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