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WordCamp 2011 – Wellington
I (Liz) was lucky enough to go to Wellington on the weekend, and catch up with the great people running New Zealand Wordcamp. Since we have a lot of WordPress users and they are often requiring our help I like to keep up with who is doing what and how. I was originally going to…
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WordPress mass update script 3.05
From the guys at wordpress We’ve fixed a pretty critical vulnerability in WordPress’ core HTML sanitation library, and because this library is used lots of places it’s important that everyone update as soon as possible. I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for.…
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WordPress mass update script 3.04 – Urgent
From the guys at wordpress We’ve fixed a pretty critical vulnerability in WordPress’ core HTML sanitation library, and because this library is used lots of places it’s important that everyone update as soon as possible. I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for.…
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WORDPRESS MASS UPGRADE SCRIPT 3.0.2
Its that time again, yet another release of wordpress is out, and this one seems important due to a few exploits. Read up here more about it http://wordpress.org/news/2010/11/wordpress-3-0-2
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WordPress Mass Upgrade Script 3.0.1
This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site in case of major catastrophe. It pays to check each site after the upgrade to…
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WordPress & WordPress MU mass upgrade script 3.0
Sorry for the slower than usual update this time. I was rather busy/sidetracked and left it for a day or two before doing it. Since it wasn’t a exploit fix release i figured it wasn’t a major. Anyway, here goes the new wordpress mass upgrade script. I no longer have a wordpress MU available to…
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Formatting problems and Syntax Highlighting in wordpress
As you may have realized, we use wordpress on our blog. Its simple and easy and nice to use, however it doesnt come without its oddities which can be a pain in the butt for a technical blog. — being translated into em-dash When doing firewall scripts or shell scripts you often use the double…
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wordpress & wordpress MU mass upgrade script 2.9.2
Okay, I have rolled the usual ‘upgrade all instances of wordpress’ script. In this version i finally got around to checking the permissions prior to updating and changing the ownership of them back to that owner afterwards. This was breaking things and could be rather annoying before if you had more than 5 sites to…
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WordPress Update Script – 2.8.6 and WordPress MU 2.8.5.2
New WordPress came out last Friday, Sorry about the delay updating the script. This script will update all instances of wordpress that are not the most current. Run it as root, it will make backups in /root/wp_upgrades of both databases and files in case things go wrong. It will determine if its a WordPress or…