I upgraded my site to the latest WordPress 3.2.1. When I browsed to the site for the first time after upgraded it, the screen displayed an error message indicating that WordPress 3.2.1 required 5.2.4 or above to work.

If you are have the standard PHP 5.1.x in CentOS 5.x and trying to upgrade your system to PHP 5.2.x using yum, you probably will encounter the same scenario where yum couldn’t find PHP 5.2.x package for update.

I searched around and found that PHP 5.2.x is included in the development repository.

Firstly, we need to add the development repository to yum. We need to add in the yum repository configuration file so it pulls PHP packages only. Use one of you favourite text editors to create a new yum repository configuration file.

# /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo

Copy/paste the following into this file:

[c5-testing]
name=CentOS-5 Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing
includepkgs=php*

Run the following command to get a list of what PHP packages you have currently installed in your system:

# rpm -qa |grep php

Use yum to update the PHP packages on your system by running the following command:

# yum update

Once yum has completed, run the following command:

# service httpd restart

Finally, if everything goes well, you have PHP 5.2.x running in your system.

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1

On April 5, 2009, in WordPress Plugins, by Steve Looi

This site was upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 without any problem. It took me about 15 minutes to complete the entire upgrade process, which included downloading the latest source file and backup the existing files.

I noticed the admin layout was different from the previous version 2.6 that I had. It took me a while to familiarize with the new layout.

Several plugins had newer version. I upgraded them with the upgrade automatically feature. Everything is working as it is suppose to be. What a relieve!

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WordPress Releases Version 2.5

On April 2, 2008, in WordPress Plugins, by Steve Looi

WordPress 2.5 was released over the weekend. It was the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community.

The latest version offers a cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard, dashboard widgets, multi-file uploading with progress bar, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, salted passwords with strength meter, cookie encryption, media library, concurrent post editing protection, search posts and pages

You can read about an overview of the features with screenshots or view a 4-minute screencast of the new interface.

You can also jump straight to the upgrade and download information.

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.3

On October 10, 2007, in WordPress Plugins, by Steve Looi

I managed to upgrade my blog to WordPress 2.3 without much complication. I even dared to perform the upgrade before doing a backup of the database, which is strictly not recommended to do so. There was a slight compatibility issue with the plug-in I installed since the previous version. Other than that, everything went smoothly.

The built-in tagging feature is pretty useful, but there is no tags management feature. Luckily, I found the Tag Managing Thing plug-in that allows me to edit and delete the tags.

WordPress For Dummies
WordPress For Dummies

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Securing WordPress Admin Access With SSL

On June 3, 2007, in WordPress Plugins, by Steve Looi

WordPress 2 still doesn’t have the feature to support HTTPS access to the admin area when the rest of the blog is accessed in HTTP. I don’t feel comfortable to access the admin area in unencrypted connections. I believed many people using WordPress also had the same thought with me.

Fortunately, there was a smart guy out there managed to create a WordPress plugin that secured the access to the admin area. The plugin is called Admin-SSL. The plugin supports both shared and private SSL certificates.

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