That was easy. Maybe a little… too easy:
I believe there were three clicks involved, but I may have miscounted.
It may have only been two.
Which is awesome, and will be great for ensuring people quickly plug security holes. But you’re really trusting that they have security locked down with the automatic upgrade process itself.
I hope it’s okay to ask you this question…
Since you know all about WP.
On the actual WP site when you go to download themes
for a new project… do those thems ON their site already
have the new security stuff in place — or would one still
need to update those ??
Thanks in advance…
~Patricia
It depends on which new security stuff you mean. The themes themselves are supposed to be reviewed for the hidden links and similar badness that some third-party providers stick into their free themes. But the real security juice is in the WordPress installation itself.
The release candidate (last stage before the official release) of the newest version of WordPress is here, and it has a slew of new features. But one of the slickest is the easy click-to-upgrade option.
Hey Rob I’m doing the auto-update now…looking like two clicks. Pretty darn spiffy!
Oh, you lucky people with reasonable web hosts…
My host blocks outgoing requests unless you’ve applied in triplicate to have port X requests to IP address Y permitted through their firewall, etc. etc.
Yeah, I’m switching soon to a host that understands that the web is about interconnectivity, grabbing content from different services, etc.
end-of-rant/grumble
For what it’s worth, Dreamhost has been surprisingly stable over the last year, and very responsive to support requests.