Comments on: Wordpress 2.5.1 Should You Upgrade?

By: Jimmy Lim

Jimmy Lim — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:38:05 +0000

Those who got use WordPress 2.5 and above, do you have any problems with the Visual Editor?

As described in this forum, http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164990?replies=40.

I unable to resolve this visual editor problem and get irritated by it, I wonder if it happens to WordPress 2.2.0?

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:48:44 +0000

Thanks Guys

I was about to upgrade but after reading the comments and posts here, I will wait.

Thanks once again for all the posts and comments its a real help for us new comers to blogging

Raj

By: Hussein

Hussein — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:06:16 +0000

My blog is running on wordpress 2.5.1 and all of my plugins are working fine..

By: Rick Roberts

Rick Roberts — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:19:52 +0000

I’ve got one blog that still runs 2.3.1 and I dread ever upgrading it. I have so many tweaks in the theme it will be a nightmare to get it all working again.

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:31:34 +0000

FWIW I have only upgraded two of my blogs to 2.5.1 … it is a sad comentary on how “upgrades” can make aproduct worse … wish they had left it alone. As Alvin said, the list of things, especially plugins that give proiblems with 2.5.1 are too numerous to mention. I will not chnage any more blogs over unless WordPress has someone who actually blogs use the enw program. I am really surprised at how many bloggers who seem to know what they are doing just made the move abd bever said a word.

Hat’s off tyo Alvin and the very few others who actually tell the truth about 2.5. Does it actually make you more secure? Beats me, the list of “fixes” has never been discussed authoritatively … and every “fix” may induce another problem, so for now I am staying 2.3 … and looking seriously at Drupal and a few other alternatives.

By: zaifulzin

zaifulzin — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:03:38 +0000

LOL…just update a couple of minute, hope nothing bad thing happened. How about your blog loading time, is it normal? After upgrading to 2.5, i found that my blog loading more slower then before eventhough ive deactivate all plugin.

By: Alvin Phang

Alvin Phang — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:06 +0000

I believe it’s more secure.. just that I was unlucky to be hacked in.. I think it has more to do with the plug ins I used

By: rey

rey — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:54 +0000

I recently upgraded to 2.5.1 myself. Are you absolutely sure it was due to a vulnerability in the latest version that made you more susceptible to attack?

I’m just concerned that I may have made my blog less secure by upgrading. But I shouldn’t be too concerned since I don’t really have enough traffic to justify being hacked in the first place anyway.

By: Linky Love

Linky Love — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:13:37 +0000

@Su Sheng Loong

Affordable dedicated servers do exist, but of course that all depends on your earnings

If a hacker hacks pretty deep in a shared web host, all the people sharing that host will be affected. It’s a pain when:
- it happens all the time
- the shared webhost is slow in getting all sites back online.

And it seems that the make money bloggers like us are quite targetted…

You should make sure you do what you can on your side to limit hackers getting in like:
- not making enemies online
- use plugins “the big money bloggers” are using, hoping that those are safe. (maybe there are better ways to find out which plugins are safe…)
- reduce interactivity (which unfortunately reduces your ability to know what your visitors really want)

By: Alvin Phang

Alvin Phang — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:30:41 +0000

There is simply too many of them.. I cant tell you for sure