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Warren Denley (http://diywebsitecoach.com) explains what WordPress updates are all about and why you should care about them. This presentation also looks at how to manage updates.
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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
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How Will I Know?
• Highlighted in your dashboard
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What Drives Updates?
• Security
• Constant battle between hackers and core developers
• Side effect of being open source and popular
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What Drives Updates?
• Functionality
• New features
• Better ways of doing things
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What Drives Updates?
• 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
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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
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WordPress Melbourne User GroupAugust 2013
What Should I Do?
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WordPress Melbourne User GroupAugust 2013
What Should I Do?
• BACK UP!
• Visit Updates page
• Process in suggested order
• Core
• Plugins
• Themes
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Special Considerations
• Core updates
• Just do it!
• Plugin updates
• May want to check plugin site for compatibility first
• Generally no reason not to
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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
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New Default Theme
• Focus on blogging
• Single column with widgetised footer
• Supports post formats and semantic markup
• Support for font based icons (genericons)
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New Default Theme
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Admin Enhancements
• Enhancements to revisions
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Admin Enhancements
• Enhancements to autosave and post locking
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Admin Enhancements
• In-line login following expired sessions
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Admin Enhancements
• Changes in Navigation Menus screen
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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)
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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
For more information and WordPress training join us at:
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