That was easy and painless…
I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.8. As a reader, you properly won’t even notice, but as a publisher it seems I will now have smoother access to themes and widgets. See this video for all the goodness.
The upgrade was more easy than ever. I just clicked twice in the web interface, and it was done.
How easy is that?!? Great work from WordPress!
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That means that your webserver has write access to your full blog directory that isn’t really very secure…
Well, I’ve also just upgraded to WP 2.8 today. My upgrade didn’t go as easy though – when using the Danish version the upgrade reminder apparently doesn’t disappear. But aside from that, it went extremely smooth! :)
Wow!
I just upgraded as well. It was a breeze!
The many WordPress upgrades always bothered me about blogging, but if it’s going to be as snappy as this from now on, I’ll be very happy. :)
drubin is right; apache shouldn’t be able to write to /var/www
what you can do with wordpress though is create a ftp server listening on 127.0.0.1 only, create a user with write & home directory permissions to /var/www and use wordpress’s internal ftp upgrade mechanism
(if it can’t write, it will prompt you for a ftp account that can).
It’s like sudo via ftp, if you will…..
@ drubin + zonky:
Thanks for the heads up, but I’m not sure my hosting provider allows me to fine tune like that. I really just have a ftp account (and a database account) and that is it. No option for creating users or other fancy stuff. I will just have to keep recent backups and hope for the best.