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Wordpress upgrades and plugins - 4 key lessons learned

2012-07-06

[caption id="attachment_3243" align="alignright" width="203"] Wordpress Logo[/caption] This week I have been updating lots of Wordpress installations. Some of the updates replace versions of Wordpress from as early as 2007 (pretty static sites) and there are a few things I've learned from the pain of upgrading a Wordpress. Wordpress Plugins are not supported by their developers forever. On one blog I'd used a flickr third party plugin, a plugin which has long ago died. Because it had died, it helped crash the Wordpress upgrade as it did not work after the new code was installed. The impact result was a few hours lost trying to find a replacement plugin, and sifting through hundreds of photo's which had lost all of their associated data information - Lesson here: try and use Plugins which look like they have an active development community that are going to build on them and support them in the future. Plugins which have very little reviews, appear to be installed by only a few people often appear to die and cause grief later. Research the third party plugin really well and always think 'what would I do if this plugin did not work in the future, and what impact will it have on my si…

Topics: Systems & software

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