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.

1. WordPress Updates
WhyYou Can’t Live Without Them
Warren Denley . @WarrenDenley . diywebsitecoach.com

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WordPress Melbourne User Group
August 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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What Should I Do?

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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

16. WordPress 3.6
What’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...

25. Questions

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