WordPress has a new update – version 3.0.5. They claim it is a security hardening update but it does more than that and most of what it does is NOT good. The forum us buzzing with people who have problems! Yes – I updated a site and had problems too.
WordPress says there will not be a fix for this until 3.1 so my advice is not to update your site to 3.0.5. Wait for 3.1 and even then, wait for me to test it, read about and listen to what people are saying. I do not know when 3.1 is supposed to be available but it will be somewhat major.
Unfortunately, it's too late. Just did it last night. That will teach me not to do some research before I leap. I'll let you know if I have any problems.
Oops – sorry I did not post sooner! I wasn’t hearing anything – good or bad – about this update until the gates flew open yesterday!
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Thanks so much for this info. I was going to update mine tomorrow. So glad I saw your FB post about it.
And when 3.1 comes out, please wait until we see how it works!!
Glad you saw my post before you updated!!
I'm so glad that you told us, I will hang tight and not do any kind of update. Thanks so much for letting us know!
Can we go back? If we have upgraded already?
If you aren’t having problems there is no reason to go back. The problems are immediate but not everyone has them.
Unfortunately, the only service a post like this has is to contribute to fear, uncertainty, and doubt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt.
I would love to see specific examples of what in the world you're claiming, because I'm in the forums every day, and I don't see it.
There was one issue in WordPress 3.0.5. One. It wasn't severe, it was directly tied to security hardening, and it didn't warrant a new release. (On the other hand, for the very few users that it affected, we made a plugin available to fix it, and bundled a fix in Akismet too.) The rest of the reported problems are either jQuery bugs coincidentally caused by themes or plugins, or the typical upgrade issues that we see every release. With 15 million self-hosted installs, you're bound to see a few issues.
References:
http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/hotfix/
http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/if-your-menus-or-widgets-screens-broke/
Please don't ever, ever discourage users from updating to a security release. That is a disservice. If the release truly had a major problem, we would have addressed it on the blog and potentially with a new version. We did neither.
You’ve obviously not been following me – did you get a Google alert? I am a HUGE fan of WordPress – I use it, I teach it, and I install it for my clients. I tell people the truth – if the upgrade is good, I say so. Here are just a few things on the forum -
‘After upgrading, all of my posts went to the default category “Uncategorized”. I have over 4000 posts. I can still see the categories in the admin panel but when I select one and try to save the post, nothing happens’
‘Hello, the images in my comments disappeared today after I upgraded to 3.0.5. Did something happen to the way img tags are used?’
‘Can’t seem to successfully put a hyperlink under existing text for a blog post. The text disappears in favor of “just the http link.” ‘
‘I’ve recently updated to the latest version, but now the size of the images in my posts are to their default size and I can’t seem to be able to resize them any ideas as to what happened?’
‘I recently updated two wordpress installations to 3.0.5. Ever since I upgraded I am having an issue where the RSS feed and homepage appear to be caching. When I view the page/feed in a browser I don’t always see the most recent posts until I do a hard refresh on the page. At first I thought it was my browser but now others people are reporting the same problem on my sites.
I also use Twitterfeed to push content to Twitter/Facebook and the twitterfeed push has been delayed as well ever since the upgrade. Is there perhaps a caching issue with the upgrade.’
Also saw where people could not log in to their dashboards!! Many of these problems were not answered.
My followers are for the most part not WordPress experts. They are business people who need their blogs to work!! I will continue to tell the truth.
FUD? What part of FUD do you think I was doing? Talking about something that does not exist to promote my agenda? No – that wasn’t me – that was you.
Our site is built with WordPress and having had issues with the 3.01 to 3.02 upgrade, I always look around to see what others are saying every time the next one comes out. I looked at the change log for 3.05 and I didn't think anything really applied to me, but then I'm the sort of person who likes to have the most up to date version. I'm particularly concerned by the post above where all categories get reset to uncategorized. That would be a nightmare to correct for us. Seems it's hard sometimes to ascertain the impact of an upgrade especially with so many different themes and plugins. I think I'll wait to 3.1 then!
You are so right – the change log did not throw up any red flags. Then I went to the forum!! I know this upgrade is more
than security although WordPress seems not to want to admit it.
Please don’t get me wrong – I LOVE WordPress but I want everyone to be truthful. They don’t seem to realize that not EVERYONE is a WordPress expert and can just fix whatever happens. And that category person – YIKES. What a disaster.
By the way – your site is LOVELY!! I want any one of the properties you have listed!
Thanks Cathy. On our site we actually have more categories than posts. That's because each property gets allocated to between 4 and 8 categories to assist users with their searches, so can you imagine having to edit every single post, read the property details and then decide which categories they should be in. Absolute nightmare.
There's always the obvious advice to back up your database before you do an upgrade but most wouldn't know how to back it up from inside their host's control panel. Many would assume that a simple FTP copy of their source files would do the trick. Wrong!
Anyway, like you I'm a big WordPress fan. My competitors spend 1000s of bucks (euros) on their sites with web companies but do not realise I got WordPress free and paid $89 for a fantastic theme. Knowledge is power as they say.
Pleased you like the properties. Some are stunning with superb views. Let me know when your website is making you enough to buy one and I'll be pleased to show you around.
Thank you for the interesting discussion. I've been on WordPress for two whole weeks or so, and I was curious about upgrading. I have a Drupal site (my main site) as well and updating that required special handling from an expert (not me). I appreciate your candid comments. Have you any experience with s2member pro? I'm adding an e-commerce function next and I don't want to drop off a cliff, lol. Have a good day.
Mr. C.
The only special handling to upgrade WordPress is backing up your database and wordpress files, disabling all plugins, then upgrading. Of course, you want to hear what I have to say about upgrades too!