WordPress Upgrading
I’ve been meaning to get back to a bit of blogging for some time now, but the install of WordPress this site was running got hacked and there was some malware installed on some pages on this site. Blech! So, I’ve upgraded the blog tonight, resubmitted a request to Google to remove the malware warning page and once that’s done, I’ll get back to it.
Having not played on the technical/server side for almost three years now, preferring to pay someone else to handle that sort of work for CBR and what not, upgrading this blog wasn’t something I was 100% confident about, but I knew I could probably figure it out. First things first, I backed up everything — the database, the root directory, etc. Back up, back up, back up, back up, back up! Having made some serious mistakes when I first started playing on servers 15 years ago, I’ve learned my lesson and then some. And it’s a good thing, too, as during the upgrade I overwrote the themes file of this here blog. Once I restored that, I went in to config caching and what not and soon enough the blog was upgraded.
All told the upgrade took about an hour, which wasn’t as long as I thought it would take. And that’s something important for me to remember — I put off upgrading the software on this blog mostly because I was concerned it was going to take hours and hours and hours. I’ve had those nights in the past where upgrades took forever, but in this case it went smoothly and I worried for nothing. Something to remember for the future.
One note, I’ve removed the photo gallery from the site for now. It’s possible it was that old program that was distributing the malware, so let’s just dump that. Plus, I’d prefer to move all those photos over to Flickr or some other photo sharing site. A small project to work on in the future.
Well, that’s all sorts of boring, but hopefully we’ll get that malware issue squared away soon enough and I can get back to some original writing. Maybe I’ll even get in a bit of trouble.
