Friday, April 11th, 2008...April 11, 2008
Technorati to force Wordpress upgrades
In a post on Technorati’s blog they talked about plans to force WP at the cost of unlisting. I actually had to check the date on the article to see if it was an April Fools joke but alas it was not. No word from Wordpress regarding this.
They are making this move do to vulnerable code in earlier versions that is very open to spam. If you have questions about installing WordPress or maintaining a WordPress installation, please refer to the WordPress Documentation or the WordPress Forums.
If you would like help please feel free to ask I would be glad to help or if you would like me to simply make the upgrade for you I would be glad to do it for a small fee.
This seems like a terrible way of approaching this problem on Technorati’s. But it is always good to keep your software up-to-date.
1 Comment
April 11th, 2008 at April 11, 2008
“Unlisting” is inaccurate, we’re not processing the crawls of blogs that appear to be compromised. We only came to this decision after months of inadequate action from the WordPress developers and the snowballing occurrence of compromised blogs. If you’re helping folks in the forums (http://wordpress.org/support/) upgrade or patch their blogs, that’s great. The community really needs that kind of support.
thanks,
-Ian
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