Comments on: Why You Should Upgrade Your WordPress Install

By: Kirby

Kirby — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:17:51 +0000

2 and half years later and I know several hundred still on 1.5.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:50:31 +0000

I think the jump is well worth it.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:33:42 +0000

what orangeguru said.
WP2.x was a bad idea, and enough progress has still not been made for it to be worth it for me. it still runs like shit on IIS setups (what i have). until a major stability release happens, i’ll keep dealing with SVN and possible security risks.

By: orangeguru

orangeguru — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:52:21 +0000

When a big number of long time users don’t upgrade to WP2.x then there are serious reasons.

I read here and other blogs some voices that shun these ‘non-upgraders’. This is not only very stupid, but also very arrogant.

Most people in the past upgraded almost instantly when a new release came out. But WP2.x simply took several wrong turns – and now some devs / fans are pissed off because not everybody is loving these turns. Shunning these users is the worst thing you could do.

IMHO WP2.x is a wankfest for AJAXculation – is leaves behind a lot of the simplicity of WP1.5. Instead of making the software more functional it mostly got only ‘cooler’ to use.

It all reminds me of the big Movable Type disaster a few years ago – when many bloggers moved from MT to WP. Many did this because of the bad communication from SixApart – but also because WP was simply better and more FUNCTIONAL. MT always looked cooler – you could feel the Mac designers behind it.

But people didn’t care about the glitzy interface, but were impressed by WPs usability and many addons.

I am running for example a groupblog with about 15 to 25 users (it always fluctuates a bit). It’s mostly images (about 6.000) and about 4.000 postings. I tested Wp2.x with a testgroup and it was a living nightmare, the whole picture uploading has serious interface issues as well as the ‘almost smart’ editor with it’s funny code corrections.

Content / Image Management isn’t WPs string side – but the current halfsmart solutions are worse then no management features at all.

Wp2.x is a fine release. Nothing is broken there, but some of the new stuff is ‘unwanted’ and only half usable. Instead of Web 2.0 fever I would recommend listening to the less exciting and uncool other ?half? of your user base. And don’t condem or confront them for ‘holding you geeks’ back …

Thanks for reading.

By: » Not convinced? Why you need WordPress 2.0.2

» Not convinced? Why you need WordPress 2.0.2 — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:52:19 +0000

[...] Alex King probably says it best in his blog. Upgrading is necessary if only to ensure your websites to be secure. If that doesnâ€™t convince you, you probably donâ€™t care about losing your blog to backdoor hungry hackers. Are you willing to risk it? [...]

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Keeping Tabs On My Links at Botsmack — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:54:53 +0000

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By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:19:21 +0000

/branches/1.5/ has now gotten the last security fix needed. If it isn’t released officially, it will be released unofficially. That doesn’t mean that 1.5 will be carried along forever… this is just so that people who have issues with upgrading (like with plugins) can have a little extra time. One caveat, however… if you let untrusted users submit posts or post drafts on your WP 1.5.2 site, you NEED to upgrade to 2.0.2 now. This is insecure, and will NOT be fixed in any 1.5.x version that is released. It would simply require too much work… essentially creating a “WP 1.9″

And Amit, WP-Cache2 works just fine with WP 2.x for me… and I’ve implemented it probably half a dozen times on 2.x

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:53:31 +0000

well, there’s only one thing holding me back, WP-Cache2 doesn’t work with WP2.x!!

By: my weblog » Caught in the World

my weblog » Caught in the World — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:31:20 +0000

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By: Lorelle on WordPress » Good Reasons to Upgrade WordPress

Lorelle on WordPress » Good Reasons to Upgrade WordPress — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:00:25 +0000

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By: Red rose ramblings » Wordpress 2.0.2

Red rose ramblings » Wordpress 2.0.2 — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:32:38 +0000

[...] I upgraded due to security concerns mentioned at AlexKing.org. Frankly, if this site stops working I’ll be a little miffed. If the Fulwood site dies, I’ll be livid. [...]

By: John Tokash’s Blog » Response to Scoble’s Fun Challenge

John Tokash’s Blog » Response to Scoble’s Fun Challenge — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:28:50 +0000

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By: Eduo

Eduo — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:06:17 +0000

In my case I installed WP 2.0 as soon as it was final, not because I wanted it badly or anything but because from day zero my blog has been more an experiment than an actual place for people to visit and be interested. I actually had the tagline as “Nothing to see, move along…”.

I installed it because I wanted to tinker with it and because some friends wanted help setting it up, and I just took it from there and have been helping them along.

To half of them I’ve actually recommended staying with 1.5, the other half had already upgraded when they came for help and so I try to keep on top of things and help them get plug-ins working and themes displaying correctly.

As usual, it all depends on what you want and need. If you’re running 1.5 currently and are satisfied with it by all means stick with it. If you’re setting up a new blog from scratch then by all means go with 2.0. And if your sole reason for staying with 1.5 is the rich editor (a religious debate if I ever saw one) then you need to document yourself. I only enable the rich editor when I need to help someone troubleshoot his (and am currently looking at extending it to add support for footnotes and lightbox flags)

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:09:43 +0000

I think it’s an uphill battle.

By: Ajay D'Souza

Ajay D'Souza — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:44:53 +0000

Robert, is someone patching the 1.5 install or does Matt do it?

You have given me good news about the problem being with wp-register. I got that disabled.

Alex,
I guess we should get Matt or the others in the WordPress team to inform those maintaining 1.5 about security patches so that the needful can be done.
What do you think?