{"id":302,"date":"2007-03-05T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/wordpress-212-emergency-upgrade-released\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T05:05:16","slug":"wordpress-212-emergency-upgrade-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/wordpress-212-emergency-upgrade-released\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.1.2 Emergency Upgrade Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take note if you&#8217;re blogging on the WordPress Platform, a cracker has introduced a security exploit into one of the WordPress 2.1.1 download servers at WordPress.org, which could potentially open security holes in your installation.<\/p>\n<p>For the WordPress development team to label this as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2007\/03\/upgrade-212\/trackback\/\" title=\"wordpress\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous,  Upgrade<\/a>&#8221; hints at the severity of this.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress upgrades can involve some pain, especially if your existing plugins may not be fully compatible with the new code.<\/p>\n<p>As always:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backup your blog content (the most important step)<\/li>\n<li>Deactivate your plugins<\/li>\n<li>Do the installation<\/li>\n<li>Reactivate plugins<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the blog is working as it should<\/li>\n<li>Do another data backup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, some of the steps seems repetitive, but it could<!--more--> potentially take much longer recovering from a crash.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, you can check out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Lorelle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lorelle.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/02\/emergency-update-notification-for-wordpress-21\/trackback\/\" title=\"lorelle\" target=\"_blank\">Emergency Update Notification for WordPress 2.1+<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dougal Campbell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dougal.gunters.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/important-upgrade-to-wordpress-212\/trackback\/\" title=\"dougall campbell\" target=\"_blank\">Important: Upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Donncha O Caoimh&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ocaoimh.ie\/2007\/03\/03\/you-didnt-hear-upgrade-now\/trackback\/\" title=\"donncha caoimh\" target=\"_blank\">You didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t hear? Upgrade now!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take note if you&#8217;re blogging on the WordPress Platform, a cracker has introduced a security exploit into one of the WordPress 2.1.1 download servers at WordPress.org, which could potentially open security holes in your installation. For the WordPress development team to label this as a &#8220;WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, Upgrade&#8221; hints at the severity of this. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[95,1767,536,537,1773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}