Pressed Words » backporting http://pressedwords.com News and commentary about all things WordPress Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:54:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 Backporting WordPress Security Fixes http://pressedwords.com/backporting-wp-security-patches/ http://pressedwords.com/backporting-wp-security-patches/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 03:14:29 +0000 http://pressedwords.com/?p=58 Alex Schleber so dislikes WordPress 2.5 that he’s worked out how to patch version 2.3.3 with 2.5’s security patches instead of upgrading. It’s an approach I would recommend against. For one thing, there’s a good chance that one won’t recognize all of the patches via changelogs, if for no other reason than that sometimes new features—not just fixes—have obviated bugs. Also, 2.5 introduced a number of features on the back-end that I would miss.

I am curious about his antipathy towards version 2.5, something he promises to blog about later. My guess is that it has to do with the design of the administrative back-end. That just confirms my opinion that the WordPress admin should be template-able. After all, no one ever decided not to upgrade WordPress because they didn’t like Kubrick.

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