gazouteast

Personally, I only ever modify imported themes, and use plug-ins. I also run a back-up of everything before an upgrade – it’s why it takes me 6 hours per site to do the full upgrade manually.

However, I also use SMF Forums on some of my sites, and a core system “one click” upgrade only modifies files and/or ADDS directories and files – it does not delete them – nor does it delete existing files (even core system files) it simply parses them for where to insert the updated code, and in that manner it leaves any existing mods in place – with SMF, we don’t even touch the plug-ins when updating the core because the upgrade/update system is smart enough to know what code is not from SMF..

That’s what WP should be doing – especially considering how many non-programmers and non-server-techs there are using the program.

Gaz

Hang on a minute guys

I’m with ajpn on this – a change from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1 is an UPDATE it should not have touched any files not shipped with the 2.7.0 package.

If this had been an UPGRADE to 2.8.0 then fair enough – it would be a major revision and it could be expected to rewrite entire directories.

An UPDATE should only rewrite individual files, not entire directory trees.

AND there is a serious oversight in wp-settings.php

It states that the default_secret_key from wp-config.php must be copied into the relevant position.
There is NO DEFAULT_secret_key in wp-config.php – it means the AUTH_secret_key – that needs fixed for 2.7.2

I’ve got the same issue, but as stats have a link on the top menu, it’s not a real bug to me, just a pain that has to be lived with.

razorcreed – I find wp-o-matic to be exceptionally useful in my news blogs – pulls in lots of topics for me to rewrite

If you know of a more up to date function or plug in that does the same job, then please post something useful and tell us what it is.

I’m running wp-o-matic on WP 2.7 & 2.6 blogs and although I’m having issues with the crons not working automatically, it works perfectly when I trigger a manual Fetch

It therefore does not deserve the description you gave it

Gaz

Me too – trying to put latest posts into a sidebar in SMF Forums

Mrmist

Nope I am now getting this on a fully functioning site but within another script when try to port the list of latest topics across into the side bat of that other script

line 216 of php-settings refers to if a language (other than default English) is set then it sets the path to the language folder

The non-object is because there has been no language folder since umpteen versions back if using English as the blog language.

I do not get this error from the site home page which is a plain html & php file pulling latest posts and comments from the blog and forums – only when trying to pull the latest blog posts into the forums

If there is no language other than default English, should lines 216 to 236 therefore not be removed from settings.php ?

Gaz

I’m getting a similar error – WP 2.6.3 on PHP 4

Begin a new post – create title and start typing content.
FIRST auto-save works (usually around 3rd paragraph)

continue typing for an hour or two, insert graphics etc.
add tags
create excerpt
add bits with Amazon reLoaded plugin
schedule post

all the while the auto-save is dimming the Save and Publish buttons to say it’s auto-saving periodically.

Then hit either Save or Publish (doesn’t matter which) and I get a white screen with similar error to first post above – refresh doesn’t clear it, waiting 20 minutes and refreshing doesn’t clear it.
Before refreshing, hitting back button gives empty new post page and all work after first auto-save is lost.

Only the post as at the FIRST auto-save has been saved – everything created after that has disappeared, i.e. only the title and first few paragraphs are saved.
No errors show during the subsequent auto-save dimming of the save and publish buttons.
There are no incremental save records after that first auto-save.

This has been happening consistently for me since upgrading to 2.6.3 from 2.6.2.

In the last 5 days it has lost over twelve hours of post creation for me, and is a MAJOR BUG from where I’m sitting – every time it happens I have to live-chat with my hosts and get them to unlock the SQL server so I can get back into WP admin.
(public side is generally not affected for some reason – though it was once, on Thursday last, the second error after this all started).

I have multiple sites on multiple hosts, and so far it’s just one site on a UK host that’s causing this – it’s the only one still running PHP 4 All the others are on PHP 5 and not suffering this.

Does anyone have any clue what is causing this?
By the way, manually saving in steps of under 2-3 minutes does not get hit by this – could it be some form of server connection time-out caused by apparent inactivity (i.e. not manually connecting to the server for X minutes? And if so, is it WP or the server causing this?)

Really need this sorted, and fast
Gaz

I’d like answers to all of the above if anyone has any ideas.

It’s starting to feel like the hackers have given up on Microsoft and started to focus on WordPress – and that’s likely to grow as more ecommerce plugins become available, so I think it’s a good time to start addressing stuff like this – perhaps a special “Security Codex”?

Gaz

Willem – any chance you can post a how to on doing that?

Even the Codex page on Hardening WordPress uses the same generic terms you use and some of us need a little more hand holding – like being told the permission numbers to use

e.g. should the wp-admin directory be 644 or stronger? If so, what?

Hope you can help on this

Gaz

Well I had hoped it would revert to showing the category numbers in manage categories under 2.6.1 or 2.6.2 …. but nope, obviously the devs know the work arounds so they don’t see the problems faced by non-propeller-heads

Grrrr

I too would like to know this

The theme I am using relies heavily on using the theme numbers in the index.php and other files to set up what content is pulled where.

I don’t particularly like (or enjoy) having to fire up phpMyAdmin and then browse the databases everytime I add a new category name and want to add its number to the theme files.

This is made especially troublesome now that tags are sequentially numbered in the same table as the categories.

Gaz

I also wish there was a simple system to switch the admin side category list sort between numerical by category ID and alphabetical by category name (not to mention a 1-page view of the list that could be printed off).

I’m after something similar….

I’d like to be able to show the first couple of paragraphs from say the last 5 posts on a front page higher up the directory structure, plus say the last 5 comments, and maybe the category structure

so if site is homesite.com and wordpress is in homesite/wordpress
I’d like to have a homesite.com/index page showing the three sets of info from WordPress.

I’ve figured out how to do it for the forums (SMF forums) and for the store (oscommerce) both using plugins available from their communities, but I can’t figure out how to do it with WordPress, nor can I find an extension for doing it.

Any help or pointers appreciated

Gaz