Why should I announce a new version of Wordpress on my blog?
Well, Wordpress 2.1.1 was released less than 24 hours ago and I just did the upgrade. It’s not a crucial upgrade, but whatever. May as well keep it up to date.
The upgrade is available at the Wordpress Download Page. Also, a description of the new upgrade can be found here.
In my case, I simply re-uploaded the entire wp-includes folder and wp-admin folder. I never touched anything within those folders or modified them so it’s good to go. I did do a database backup, however, just in case, and I did do a full backup of everything under the wp-contents folder before I started.
It worked for me. That’s the easiest way to upgrade Wordpress, as long as you don’t modify the core files outside of the wp-contents folder. If you want a care-free WP upgrade, that’s the ONLY folder you should ever be touching!
The Golden Question : WHY am I announcing the upgrade of Wordpress?
That’s why I’m announcing the new version of Wordpress being released. Oh, and I also did want to give you a simple upgrade tip as well, out of my good heart!
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Thanks, I will use this advice when I upgrade my blog later.
hey no problem.. glad to have helped!
I like the inclusion of the screen shots and photos in your posts. It makes for a better read. That’s something I need to work on. I get so caught up in the content, that I forget about the pictures for aesthetics.
Dang, another upgrade!! I think I’ll just wait till next week for the next upgrade to come out.
Your key question isn’t necessarily true. Everyone with a WordPress blog starts with a link to WordPress. Links to and from WordPress are so many, I believe that they are diluted and not as effective in achieving Page Rank. Too many people trying to do the same thing, search engines know the tricks before you do.
The trackbacks are set with nofollow on WordPress, so Google ignores them, but other search engines don’t. Still, there are other more valuable linking commodities to link to than WordPress if getting the link juice is your goal.
There are good reasons and bad reasons (evil doers lurking) to announce such version changes. Link juice isn’t one of them.
Sorry.
Wow Lorelle thank you very much for your comments, they are very helpful to me and others that come to this blog.
I thought sending a trackback to a Wordpress page with pings would help for Google but I gues not.. well. It still does for Technorati.
I don’t think it’ll help you with Technorati – they also follow the “nofollow” policy.
Which is another site that is seriously diluted on the Page Ranking score sheet.
When you link to such sites, consider how many people also link to them. People are still under the mistaken impression that their tags MUST link to Technorati to validate them or something. That’s not true. Your tags can link to anything, so make them work for you by linking to your site and not off site content. Still, that’s a lot of incoming links, so the algorithm for Page Rank takes this into consideration and you don’t get much link juice from them either.
The real juice comes from those who link TO you, not just who you link to. That’s the real ticket.
There was an evil doer recently tracking down WordPress blogs which hadn’t immediately upgraded and exploiting a known vulnerability. Some of the upgrade information was found in their posts, telling readers when they upgraded and to what version. There are other ways of finding that information, but still – how much help do you want to give the evil doers?
Focus on the content that you do best and let the background mechanics of how you run your blog stay with you, unless that is the subject matter of your blog. Search engines take into account what you talk about as much as who you link to. Keep on track and your search engine juice will rise.
IMHO.
I did the upgrade too, but forgot to protect my images, so I had to find my images and upload them all together. Good thing I just started my blog or I’d still be finding pictures as we speak! Great Blog and Keep up the great work!
Haha yikes..
I never overwrite the wp-contents folder, which has the uploads, plugins, and themes folder.. those do not pertain to upgrading WP. That is a great thing about how Wordpress is structured – segregation of core files and content related files.