I had put off writing this post for a while, partly because I wanted to take the time and really give Wordpress 2.5 a whirl before bashing it. For several months now I have watched the discussion on the Wordpress.org support forums - especially about the much maligned admin back-end changes, run a security "back-porting" experiment […]

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" […]

OK, the content of this post is so important that I won’t agonize too much over whether the writing is all that smooth or not. You may have heard any number of things in recent weeks and months about the need to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.x because of security issues with the older versions. In fact, […]