Pat Marcello | 
03 2nd, 2008| 
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What’s up with WordPress? Every other day, there’s another security issue and we have to upgrade again. Argh. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could figure out everything at the same time so that we only needed to upgrade once?
Would be. Not possible, but it would be nice.
So, I’ve upgraded this blog at least three times that I can remember, and then, there are the plugins and the themes that don’t jibe, and on and on…
It’s exhausting.
People who are new to blogging are usually wary of doing things like upgrades. But here’s the thing to remember, if you don’t, you’re leaving yourself wide open for mischief.
You may or may not know this, but someone hacked my blog around September and I lost everything. It’s my own dumb fault for not backing things up properly (and WordPress Databackup Plugin is so frickin’ simple to use that I should be smacked). But you get busy and you think you’re going to do something, and who’d want to mess with my blog, anyway, and you just never get around to doing things.
How would you like to lose 2 years of posts? Thousands of trackbacks and comments, and on and on…
Very frustrating.
Still, I wish I had that stuff back. WordPress Database Backup plugin now mails the contents to me every week.
I won’t be taken to the cleaners again.
At least, one can hope.
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