Comments on: Google Wants You To Upgrade Your WordPress Installation

By: p1nk g33k

p1nk g33k — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:25:45 +0000

Bingu, you are absolutely right. I used to be the same way, but then began upgrading as soon as patches and upgrades came out because I didn’t want my site to become a target. The Technorati threat last year also helped. The truth is, if you backup and keep track of the changes that you made to your WordPress install, upgrading can be painless.

I’m still a little iffy about Google’s decision. Do we really want them to stop indexing sites because they think that the CMS that they’re using has been targeted once? I think their “this site may be harmful” notice would suffice. And, I’m iffy about that one, as well.

By: Bingu

Bingu — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:23:09 +0000

I know many people donot upgrade their worpdress to the latest.
Because wordpress’s backend is change so frequently.

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Google Wants Us To Update Our Wordpress Blogs? - Netpond ? — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:12:21 +0000

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By: RocyHua

RocyHua — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:14:59 +0000

WordPress is so Popular,huhu~

By: PremiumThemeInfo

PremiumThemeInfo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:19:24 +0000

It’s important to the blog that haven’t update the wordPress installation.
Thanks for your tip.

By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:32:49 +0000

Thanks for this tip.

I’m sure its best practice for any webmaster to update as there are many new features and security patches. I think it would be useless to stay on previous versions.

By: Stu McLaren

Stu McLaren — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:21:48 +0000

I think this is a good thing considering that in most cases the WordPress updates are made for a reason (ex. security flaws).

So if Google is forcing the hand, it just helps keep everyone up to date and will most likely prevent many issues down the road.