Comments on: God I hate Wordpress so bad right now

By: The State of WordPress’s Upgrade Cycle :: WPLover

The State of WordPress’s Upgrade Cycle :: WPLover — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:34:43 +0000

[...] you have to upgrade when a new version comes out. And hope they didnt introduce bugs that, say, drop the categories on hundreds of stories when upgrading. Because they dont know if it will, because they dont write tests to prove the software is [...]

By: wmmbb

wmmbb — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:17:42 +0000

Jacques:

“Contact Club Troppo” does not seem to be working. I get “Error 404″.

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:32:48 +0000

oi, Damien. So little faith. Who told you how whatisname, Captain Jack, got back to the present in Torchwood? Ha. I’m wounded.

By: Niall

Niall — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:40:31 +0000

The upgrade borked our categories

is 'borked' a word? If not, I'd be putting it up on Urban Dictionary, Jacques. Wup! Just checked and it is. "To have totally fucked something up. Usually by doing something stupid. Specifically used to describe technology that is broken." Appropriate even.

By: Tony T.

Tony T. — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:49:50 +0000

Gimme back that $0.00 I gave you.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:59:35 +0000

Star effort, Jacques – very much appreciated.

By: The Worst of Perth

The Worst of Perth — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:39:40 +0000

I think you’ll find the correct quote is “A poor workman pulls his tool.”

By: D W Griffiths

D W Griffiths — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:09:12 +0000

What Sinclair said too.

By: Damien Eldridge

Damien Eldridge — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:58:57 +0000

Well, at least, what Sinclair said in comment 6 on this thread!!! I don’t know where you find the time for all this Jacques!!!

By: Damien Eldridge

Damien Eldridge — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:56:46 +0000

What Sinclair said!!!

By: Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:47:48 +0000

You’re good man, Jacques – well done.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:35:58 +0000

Speaking of releases, the Wordpress.org developer list is currently blazing with ideas about what to do in the next release. How about fixing bugs, fortheloveoftapdancingf*ck. Such as my pet peeve – that Wordpress is not UTF8 from end to end, causing corrupted characters when databases are dumped and reloaded – it has been pushed back again.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:31:29 +0000

That’s a fine theory for projects with more sophisticated release management, but Wordpress always bundle a bunch of security fixes into their major point releases. Tracking the subversion repository is too much hassle, but to keep the place as secure as possible I follow the point releases pretty closely.

This all ignores the fact that the single biggest danger to the integrity of our database was in fact the upgrade script from Wordpress. Goody.

By: Sans Blog

Sans Blog — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:27:18 +0000

It’s always to best to wait a few weeks after a WP release before upgrading and during that time keep a close eye on the WP support forums for reports of all the bugs, plugin incompatibility etc.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:10:52 +0000

*hugz!*

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:15:38 +0000

Jacques Chester:
Welcome back …. and so swiftly too.

You said

“They say the bad workman blames his tools”

Sometimes that’s because the tools, and the training in the use of them, are faulty or inappropriate.