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WordPress 4.4 Arrives

Posted by timothy on from the straight-outta-texas dept.

An anonymous reader with news of the newest release of open source WordPress, which adds a slew of new features to the blog management tool that will "make your site more connected and responsive." You can download the new release now from WordPress.org/Download (7.3MB). WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that powers 25 percent of the Web. The latest version is dubbed "Clifford" in honor of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown.

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  1. Re:Upgrade hell by gmack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is not as hard a problem as you would think. Step one was installing the update notifier plugin and loading a cron job to ping the Wordpress cron script a couple of times a day (not needed on higher traffic sites) so I know when updates need to happen.

    Then I installed the "wp-cli" script and added a script that grabs a backup of the database and web files before running the following commands:
    wp core update
    wp core update-db
    wp theme update --all
    wp plugin update --all

    Then.. wrap that in another script that cycled through all of the sites on my system and Wordpress becomes completely painless as long as no one has done anything crazy like mod the actual Wordpress php files..