wordpress updates - why you can't live without them

WordPress UpdatesWhy You Can’t Live Without Them

Warren Denley . @WarrenDenley . diywebsitecoach.com

http://diywebsitecoach.com

WordPress Melbourne User GroupAugust 2013

What Updates?

• WordPress core

• Plugins

• Themes

How Will I Know?

• Highlighted in your dashboard

What Drives Updates?

• Security

• Constant battle between hackers and core developers

• Side effect of being open source and popular

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• Functionality

• New features

• Better ways of doing things

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• Design Refresh

• Things date quickly on the web

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Why Should I Care?

• SECURITY!

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Why Should I Care?

• SECURITY!

• Why would someone hack MY site?

• Botnets

• Pharma spam

• Your audience

• Malware delivery

• Just plain mischief

What Should I Do?

• BACK UP!

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What Should I Do?

• BACK UP! - My horror story

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What Should I Do?

• BACK UP!

• Visit Updates page

What Should I Do?

• BACK UP!

• Visit Updates page

• Process in suggested order

• Core

• Plugins

• Themes

Special Considerations

• Core updates

• Just do it!

• Plugin updates

• May want to check plugin site for compatibility first

• Generally no reason not to

Special Considerations

• Theme updates

• Need to check how your theme was customised

• Potential to lose styling and/or functionality

• Updates to underlying framework generally OK

WordPress 3.6What’s New

New Default Theme

• Focus on blogging

• Single column with widgetised footer

• Supports post formats and semantic markup

• Support for font based icons (genericons)

New Default Theme

Admin Enhancements

• Enhancements to revisions

Admin Enhancements

• Enhancements to autosave and post locking

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Admin Enhancements

• In-line login following expired sessions

Admin Enhancements

• Changes in Navigation Menus screen

Admin Enhancements

• Preview audio and video in Media Edit screen

• Ability to embed directly from more sources

• Simply paste audio/video URL directly into visual editor

• Most major source now supported (YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, Rdio, etc)

Developer Enhancements

• External libraries updated

• More control over revisions

• New filters for shortcodes

• and a bunch of other stuff you probably don’t care about as users...

Questions

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