Friendly WordPress Upgrade Reminders

If you weren’t already aware, the gang at WordPress just shipped a pretty critical security update. In fact, it’s kind of a big deal. So much so that I went around and patched all my sites the second their update on the matter hit my phone.

Since I’ve put a lot of energy into helping folks recover their hacked sites as of late, I figured I’d draw up a quick Twitter PSA for a few of my friends who make a living thru their WP sites:

You *really* need to upgrade the copy of WordPress on your blog when you get a chance. Go to “Dashboard > Updates” in wp-admin to run one.

After sending that out as a direct message a handful of times, I figured that some of the other nerds out there might appreciate having that too. So here it is — free to use it as you see fit!

P.S. Should you not know how to check the version number on a friend’s WordPress site you can normally locate it using one of two methods:

  1. Use view source in your browser and then do a find for “generator”. That should show you the meta tag that WordPress inserts into the page for usage metrics and such.
  2. Add “readme.html” to the end of the blog URL. This doesn’t always work, but most folks leave the WordPress ReadMe file (which contains WP’s version number) in place.

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