Posted on September 5, 2008 - by John

Irish Blogs refuse to upgrade their blog software

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I wrote previously about wordpress upgrades and some of the changes we might expect to see in the near future. Aside from nifty new tools and layout changes the most important point about upgrading is to secure your website against any discovered vulnerabilities in wordpress or indeed whatever blog software you use.

Once a vulnerability is discovered your blog can be hacked, but you may never know  – with the hacker placing hidden commands in the code of your site.

Worryingly there is a large percentage of high profile Irish Bloggers who seemingly refuse to upgrade their version of wordpress, with a small few sporting text on the footer of their site telling everyone what outdated version they are using, to those people I can only say one thing, I hope you have backups of your content.

To remove the wordpress version from the footer look for and remove this line and any related text

< ? php bloginfo(’version’) ; ?>

Its a pain – Yes it is a pain to upgrade, and although there is a plugin to automate the upgrade process  I would recommend waiting for wordpress developers to bring out such a feature.

I myself often hold off on the major releases until they sort out any kinks. But when serious security flaws or issues are announced don’t wait around for someone to mess up your work!

Having said this I tried to think of some reasons not to upgrade wordpress – and there all very valid points…

I have a life…

Warcraft wont play itself.

Those beers will be getting warm.

There’s too much porn on the internet – where will I find the time.

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