Three points on why you should upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.2 right now!

Wordpress 2.3.2 is out. Usually, when there’s a triple digit update, people are kind of reluctant to upgrade their Wordpress right? Well, this time, you shouldn’t. Especially provided the fact that you time-stamp your posts. Why exactly should you upgrade?

• Draft-post bug.

Did you know that people can read your future timestamped posts with Wordpress 2.3.1? Yes, they can. Anyone who wanted to know what your article is going to be tomorrow, or steal the article and put it in their own blog, can do so, right now! And that’s the major ‘why’!

• Giving away your data structure.

Some detailed database error messages in 2.3.1 allows someone to have a eagle-eye look of your blog’s data structure. Now you wouldn’t want anyone messing with that right? In 2.3.2, this is fixed and you can breath again. Wonder why this update didn’t come sooner.

• Custom DB error messages.

For all those error messages that might pop-up in your blog blog from time to time, which of course, you want to conceal from your visitors, custom DB error messages are available. Yes, now you don’t have to worry about that, and neither your visitors.

So get Wordpress 2.3.2 now! It will save you from a lot of bad things At wordpress.com, you can take a detailed look at the fixed bugs and changes.

2 Responses to “Three points on why you should upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.2 right now!”

1. Chris Coyier says:

   December 30, 2007 at 11:27 am

   I always kind of wondered if there was some sneaky way to look at drafts / future posts if people did a little URL hacking. Would they have to be future-datestamped yet PUBLISHED articles, or can they just look at drafts too?

   I save a ton of drafts in my WordPress, and each of them has a “preview” link I can click which shows me the post how it would look on the live page. However if I am logged out of WordPress, those preview URLs don’t work…
2. Nadeesha Cabral says:

   December 30, 2007 at 11:57 am

   Chris, I think it has to be published yet future-datestamped. Yes, any of the URLs wouldn’t work if you log out of Wordpress. As in, the drafts. The only way to view them would be, I don’t know. hack the password?