Ernies Tech Thoughts

A new version of Wordpress has been released. It is a minor security release related to the Snoopy class, and can be upgraded with just 2 files. Now just waiting for inbuilt threaded comments in WP 2.7.

The other day I had a whinge about WP security updates & releases. This post was written after I had just spent valuable time updated a number of WP sites I maintain.
Now I have that out of my system here are the reasons I use WP more and more:

• Not just a blog tool, but a legitimate small-medium CMS
• Large and knowledgeable support community
• A huge and vibrant community of themes and plugins
• FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) all the way

I have recently moved 2 more sites to WP, and both are better for it:

• Girraween Athletics from Joomla
• devReview from custom code

When I next need to put together a site with content management type capabilities I will likely use WP again over alternatives I have tried.

Wordpress has released version 2.2.1. This means another round of updates for sites running older versions that I maintain. This one has security fixes so is a must.
These Wordpress updates are starting to get to me. There have been too many in the last 12 months and security fixes have been in most.
And it seems Wordpress themes are now a bigger part of the problem.

Ok, whinge over.