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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. Why is that the goal of a new release? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is the goal of a new release to make a site "more connected and responsive?" Neither of those are the real issue with Wordpress. I'd like to see an emphasis on security and making it much harder to compromise an install of Wordpress. This tells me that the Wordpress devs might not be taking the issue seriously enough. How about at least not exposing internal paths, having separate administrator accounts that aren't logged into like normal users, and otherwise hardening the system? That should be the goal of new releases, otherwise 25% of the internet is full of massive security holes.

    1. Re:Why is that the goal of a new release? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'll take your crapified, phone centric UI changes and you'll LIKE THEM!

    2. Re:Why is that the goal of a new release? by KGIII · · Score: 2

      Heh... I saw "more connected and responsive" and my first thought was, "connected and responsive to whom?"

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    3. Re:Why is that the goal of a new release? by RabidReindeer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ah, a member of the Gnome 3 team speaks out!

  2. Remote admin features by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love the remote administration features of wordpress. Infact the owners have no idea I am even remoting in with the sql commands

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  3. 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..

  4. Re:Upgrade hell by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the maintenance needs for a WP system discounts it for most of my customers.

    You mean like the whole 7 updates released this year not included bug fixes for legacy systems? The same 7 updates which can be applied automagically with a click of a button and even check the compatibility of plugins as it goes?

    Do your customers also have problems tying their shoelaces and do you get paid by the hour to help them eat their meals?