While installing a plugin for WordPress early today, I read the notice in the dashboard for a security update. Since the update was a minor one and involved only replacing files, I proceeded to update the WordPress installations for my and my wife’s blogs.
The actual update took less than a minute but the uploading and downloading of files took close to two hours. By the time WordPress 1.5.1.3 was released, I still haven’t backed up my files and data and doing it through a very slow connection was a test in patience, to put it mildly.
WordPress actually offered a simpler option to close the security hole address by the update – delete the xmlrpc.php file. But I figured that since the update was already available, I should just install it.
Max is a journalist and blogger based in Cebu. He has written and edited for such publications as The Freeman, The Independent Post, Today, Sun.Star Cebu, Cebu Daily News, Philstar Life, and Rappler.
He is also a mobile app and web developer and co-founded InnoPub Media with his wife Marlen.
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