Comments on: Hackers Broke in and Messed Up the Place and It’s My Fault

By: This Week in Browsing | Brian Dusablon

This Week in Browsing | Brian Dusablon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:20:59 +0000

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By: sogrady

sogrady — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:35:54 +0000

@Matt: the ‘stable’ svn version would be perfect. until then, i can either a.) use the batch script to update us all to the latest and greatest, or b.) shift to trunk.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:44:45 +0000

It’s useless to SVN update a tag because by definition tags never, ever change. For your usage it might be good to SVN up to the branch, you’ll just need to remember to switch when there’s a major new version.

In the future we should have a ‘stable’ SVN address that gives you the latest stable version and will update to new major releases when they’re out. That’d be perfect for your type of usage.

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:21:15 +0000

Thanks for the “teachable moment”. I need to be a bit more diligent. I have nightly database backups and a wordpress backup before/after ever upgrade. The one task I’ve gone to is “single instance” for our multiple blogs. This has saved plenty of time when new WP versions come along. The “single instance” solution we run has two models – “separate databases mode” and “shared databases mode” and we have tested mixing modes with success. For live operations, I prefer the separate databases on a shared WP instance. We could have gone with WP-MU but for a handful of blogs, it was overkill.

By: Rich Sharples

Rich Sharples — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:54:01 +0000

There’s a lot you can do to secure your WP site, I collected some tips recently after falling foul of the base64 script hack :

http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/758

- Rich

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Hackers Broke in and Messed Up the Place and It’s My Fault Scripts Rss — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:10:16 +0000

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