What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
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What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
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Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#2Great write up! Tons of useful features in the new release.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#3The automatic background updates feature might be the most important feature of all in 3.7. Hopefully this goes a long way to plug some of the rampant security issues that plague the CMS because of failure to update to a later version. The new date querying features are also a welcome addition as it has been notoriously hacky in prior versions querying advanced date values in Wordpress and finally we search has been given a little love and is no longer so horrible that it requires a third party plugin to fill the void. Best version of Wordpress to date by far, wonder how they can top this list in 3.8.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#4The automatic background updates feature might be the most important feature of all in 3.7. Hopefully this goes a long way to plug some of the rampant security issues that plague the CMS because of failure to update to a later version. The new date querying features are also a welcome addition as it has been notoriously hacky in prior versions querying advanced date values in Wordpress and finally we search has been…
Ugh. I'm extremely skeptical of auto-updates. My servers don't auto-update, my workstation doesn't auto-update..nothing I own, auto-updates if it's capable of it.
Can anyone tell me if it can be turned off? All I'm seeing is this:
For developers there are lots of options around how to control the new updates feature, including allowing it to handle major upgrades as well as minor ones, more sophisticated date query support, and multisite improvements.
I've been burned one too many times. I see a MASSIVE WP failure in the near future where an update gets pushed out and takes millions of Wordpress sites offline...
It's happened with Bitdefender. It's happened with AVG. It's happened with Windows 8.1 RT.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#5The automatic background updates feature might be the most important feature of all in 3.7. Hopefully this goes a long way to plug some of the rampant security issues that plague the CMS because of failure to update to a later version. The new date querying features are also a welcome addition as it has been notoriously hacky in prior versions querying advanced date values in Wordpress and finally we search has been…
Ugh. I'm extremely skeptical of auto-updates. My servers don't auto-update, my workstation doesn't auto-update..nothing I own, auto-updates if it's capable of it. Can anyone tell me if it can be turned off? All I'm seeing is this: For developers there are lots of options around how to control the new updates feature, including allowing it to handle major upgrades as well as minor ones, more sophisticated date query s…
As long as there's a switch to turn it off, you'll be just fine. Meanwhile millions of poorly monitored sites will be less vulnerable to attack at the cost of what I suspect will be relatively infrequent update snafus. All security is a tradeoff and this is a good one.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#6The automatic background updates feature might be the most important feature of all in 3.7. Hopefully this goes a long way to plug some of the rampant security issues that plague the CMS because of failure to update to a later version. The new date querying features are also a welcome addition as it has been notoriously hacky in prior versions querying advanced date values in Wordpress and finally we search has been…
Yes, we've (http://wpengine.com) decided to disable the auto-updates as we want to perform our client account-specific tests before upgrading future versions BUT I welcome the addition of auto-updates given that the majority of WordPress installs do not live at Managed WordPress Hosts.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ugh. I'm extremely skeptical of auto-updates. My servers don't auto-update, my workstation doesn't auto-update..nothing I own, auto-updates if it's capable of it. Can anyone tell me if it can be turned off? All I'm seeing is this: For developers there are lots of options around how to control the new updates feature, including allowing it to handle major upgrades as well as minor ones, more sophisticated date query s…
As long as there's a switch to turn it off, you'll be just fine. Meanwhile millions of poorly monitored sites will be less vulnerable to attack at the cost of what I suspect will be relatively infrequent update snafus. All security is a tradeoff and this is a good one.
I just updated a test site to 3.7 and I'm not seeing anywhere this can be turned off.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#8The automatic background updates feature might be the most important feature of all in 3.7. Hopefully this goes a long way to plug some of the rampant security issues that plague the CMS because of failure to update to a later version. The new date querying features are also a welcome addition as it has been notoriously hacky in prior versions querying advanced date values in Wordpress and finally we search has been…
Ugh. I'm extremely skeptical of auto-updates. My servers don't auto-update, my workstation doesn't auto-update..nothing I own, auto-updates if it's capable of it. Can anyone tell me if it can be turned off? All I'm seeing is this: For developers there are lots of options around how to control the new updates feature, including allowing it to handle major upgrades as well as minor ones, more sophisticated date query s…
There's a constant so that you can turn it off. In the linked article, the first paragraph in the section about auto-updates links to the wordpress wiki page about it, the constant is basically point 1a on that page.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#9The automatic background updates feature might be the most important feature of all in 3.7. Hopefully this goes a long way to plug some of the rampant security issues that plague the CMS because of failure to update to a later version. The new date querying features are also a welcome addition as it has been notoriously hacky in prior versions querying advanced date values in Wordpress and finally we search has been…
Yes, we've ( http://wpengine.com ) decided to disable the auto-updates as we want to perform our client account-specific tests before upgrading future versions BUT I welcome the addition of auto-updates given that the majority of WordPress installs do not live at Managed WordPress Hosts.
Likewise for the Genesis/WordPress project. It's great and will probably be enabled for local development, but changes to plugins, themes, and the core will need deployment. Besides, updating WP within the GUI seems to skip/ignore certain files compared to downloading the latest release and merging.
Re: What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
As long as there's a switch to turn it off, you'll be just fine. Meanwhile millions of poorly monitored sites will be less vulnerable to attack at the cost of what I suspect will be relatively infrequent update snafus. All security is a tradeoff and this is a good one.
I just updated a test site to 3.7 and I'm not seeing anywhere this can be turned off.
Found it! In order to disable it you have to add define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true ); to your wp-config.php file