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May 10
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An Update on the Wordpress 2.3.3 Security Retro-fit AdventureFiled under
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Just wanted to update you on a few developments with the back-porting of Wordpress 2.5.x security improvements to version 2.3.3.
First, I want to emphasize that I did this largely to show that it was possible, and that Wordpress (Automattic) should consider rolling out such security fixes for older versions as patches rather than forcing "upgrades" to entirely new iterations of Wordpress with many feature changes mixed in with such fixes.
First, I did move the "Retro-fit" to this production blog of mine that is running a customized version of 2.3.3, and things have been going fine.
Here is a screen-shot of the "no frills" login screen that is now missing the formatting that changed with 2.5.1 (as mentioned in the prior post). Since I have the user registration turned off, this is a non-issue for me, I can easily deal with not having a "pretty" login screen.

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Automattic, security, usability, Wordpress security, Wordpress upgrade, Wordpress2.5
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