{"id":2169,"date":"2011-07-26T02:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2011-07-26T02:15:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T07:15:40","slug":"make-sure-your-wordpress-plugins-are-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/26\/make-sure-your-wordpress-plugins-are-up-to-date","title":{"rendered":"Make sure your WordPress plugins are up-to-date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably stating the obvious, but make sure your plugins in WordPress are up-to-date. You keep up with the latest WordPress releases (and you should &#8212; there are lots of security fixes within releases), but you also have to make sure that the plugins are updated.<\/p>\n<p>I deploy some systems using SVN, and on some sites, make use of the Disqus plugin for commenting. The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/disqus-comment-system\/\">plugin<\/a> itself, as of writing, has only been tested against WordPress 3.1.4. Today, you have WordPress 3.2.1. Don&#8217;t fret though &#8212; Version 2.66 works just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I preach about updating stuff? My recent update had broken a production site&#8230; not the site itself, but the authors could not upload any media. The uploader (JavaScript) wouldn&#8217;t work. Chrome has the JavaScript Console available which showed me exactly what was going wrong, and that&#8217;s how I debugged the offending plugin.<\/p>\n<p>Upon a little search later for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=wordpress+3.2.1+upload+image\">wordpress 3.2.1 upload image<\/a>, I see a bunch of people asking questions. The standard answer is to disable plugins to see if things work. In this case, updating solved the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably stating the obvious, but make sure your plugins in WordPress are up-to-date. You keep up with the latest WordPress releases (and you should &#8212; there are lots of security fixes within releases), but you also have to make sure that the plugins are updated. I deploy some systems using SVN, and on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,52],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-plugins","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-yZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}