Posts Tagged with 'WordPress Upgrade'

Blog Hacked – Paying the price for not upgrading WordPress

I don’t remember which version I installed first when I started this blog back in Nov’06 but I followed the upgrade cycle with every release till 2.1.1. I became a bit lazy and did not follow the security exploits news that kept circulating on net about WordPress security exploits with version 2.1.1 and few other releases.
Beginning first week of march, the traffic from Google started to dip in a big way. By second week the traffic was down by 90%

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Smooth Upgrade to WordPress 2.1.1 in 8 Steps

Yesterday night I decided it was time to upgrade my WP installation to the latest version and I did not wait for any longer to start working on it. The entire upgrade process took less than 20 minutes and it was trouble free, mostly because I maintain a log sheet of changes that I keep making to the WP and theme files and knew what to backup and which files to update. Here is a list of task items that

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