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Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Re: Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Post by freehunter »

jon-wood wrote: post #14
adam74 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people who run Wordpress have clients who need a nice, easy user interface to be able to update their site. Do you have any suggestions for software that fulfills that need and is "secure, not bloated and easier to develop with".

> A lot of people who run Wordpress have clients who need a nice, easy user interface to be able to update their site. This is clearly opinion, and should be taken as such, but I absolutely loathe Wordpress' admin interface. I'm sure at some point it was a nice, easy user interface but those days have passed. Anytime I have the misfortune of being thrown into a Wordpress backend I have no idea how to get anything don…

When all you need to do is write a post, clicking on 'Posts' is a good start.

Re: Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Post by toxican »

onion2k wrote: post #8
listic wrote: post #4

Does Wordpress release security update for those who stick to older versions?

Wordpress only has one track, which is the only one that gets updates. Once a new major release is available all support for the previous release ends. If you want the most secure version you need to be on the latest (4.2.2).

Um, no? They do security updates for the last couple of versions of Wordpress. They even extend that to the last couple versions of their stock theme when they require an update.

Re: Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Post by falcolas »

arsenide wrote: post #10
NewsReader42 wrote: post #9

or just remove wordpress and use something secure, not bloated and easier to develop with.

Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "bloated," and could you give an example of something "easier to develop with?", explaining why it is "easier" to use?

My definition of bloated: any web platform which includes its own cron system.

Re: Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Post by marcosdumay »

jqm wrote: post #20
adam74 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people who run Wordpress have clients who need a nice, easy user interface to be able to update their site. Do you have any suggestions for software that fulfills that need and is "secure, not bloated and easier to develop with".

Mezzanine. And it is a joy to work with.

That.

After the second Drupal flaw in two weeks that enabled anybody to log on my server, I've decided to remove anything wrote in PHP from it. I'm not here to babysit software.

As a bonus, if you want anything too fancy in Mezzanine, you can just escape away to Django. Beats being thrown away in PHP by miles.

Re: Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Post by aram »

runarb wrote: post #11

For the first time I got an email from my Wordpress installation yesterday, asking me to update. Have not seen that before. A nice detail I appreciate, so I don't have to keep up with what i the latest release of Wordpress at all times.

Interesting, AFAIK it's not something in the core. Which security plugin are you using?

Re: Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Post by liotier »

rob wrote: post #18

And if you manage multiple WordPress websites, try something like InfiniteWP. It takes care of updating core, plugins, and themes. We use it to manage about 23 WordPress websites and being able to update all of your websites with a couple of clicks is an incredible timesaver. We still do manually review everything though (like changelogs, making sure the site still loads and isn't a WSOD, etc.) We like InfiniteWP bec…

Or let your Linux distribution handle the multi-site Wordpress hosting for you... Thank you Debian !

Re: Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites

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Post by joeyspn »

I'm not a big fan of wordpress but it is undoubtedly a great tool to have in your toolbox, specially when your customers need user-friendly blogging tools or a quick CMS. I've installed for some of my clients Django blogs (with Django-CMS), rails-based blogs, and even a couple of Ghost installs. Nothing has beaten wordpress so far, clients love its versatility...

What I do to fly under the radar of many of the bots and automated scripts targeting wordpress sites is using a modern wp framework: roots bedrock[0]. This gives you a convenient time windows to update wp when you have the time (although with bedrock it is really easy with a couple of commands)

[0] https://roots.io/bedrock/

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