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WordPress updates

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:06:21 +0000

The wordpress team distributes WordPress updates very often, the process is very simple, you unzip, FTP (upload) the update, and you are done.

I do this very often for many many websites, although the process is simple, it is time consuming, the reson is that on shared hosting, i can not upload a zip file, i have to upload 800+ files for every single website, the latency of uploading 800 * 10 files adds up, and i should not need to do this

the task look as simple as, create a system to upload the new version to all FTP destinations every time there is a new wordpress update.

This is also more secure than allowing wordpress to update itself, wordpress code files should not be writable to the web server, only to the FTP user.

Anyway, i will get to this project soon (Maybe it will take 10 hours work), and once done i will keep you posted on how to add your FTP details.

Till then, happy wordpressing

Older wordpress installations get SEO Hacked

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:42:47 +0000

Versions before 3.1 got hacked where only google sees a big bulk of text with plenty of text, this is so that the visitor does not get a sense of urgency into fixing the issue.

Surely, by the time the user updates the compromised WP install, Search engines would have visited his/her website a few times, and think the links are important, giving away the beloved rank to the spammer !

In any case, it seems WordPress are aware of the issue, and the update, followed by the DB update (You will see when you login as admin) resolves the issue !

Happy blogging !

auto updating WordPress and making it faster

szr — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:21:54 +0000

Faster Auto Updating WordPress, Joomla, and other PHP scripts

So, we don’t think the popular PHP software packages are optimized at all (Knowing the developers had to make them cross platform compatible), We also think keeping them up to date is a hassle, and Auto installation scripts can mess up quite allot when they update, if you chose to modify your software, The auto updater can overwrite .

So, what has actually made it somewhere decent on the priority heap of my schedule is a modified version of this software that runs faster and auto updates, This should be added to the list of features in our standard hosting.

I will let you know how it goes, Very soon