BackUpWordPress 0.4.5 released
November 5th, 2007
After a series of security fixes, this is a maintainance release. It fixes the bug which prevented users, who changed their admin account to some other username to operate BackUpWordPress properly as reported by befrahe.
What others blog about BackUpWordPress
October 26th, 2007
I am following closely what others are blogging about my stuff. This is a summary on what others are saying about BackUpWordPress, my Backup and Recovery Suite plugin for WordPress:
Ambience Media puts it into Wordpress 2.3 Plugins You Can’t Live Without and All of Adsense sees it as on of the Essential Wordpress 2.3 Plugins.
Freakitude has a review on it and says :
Overall, BackUpWordpress plugin is a real time saver and highly recommended for painless and easy backups.
Madhur Kapoor reviews that review and gives Freakitude High Five for it.
Lazy Chris has a german review on it and so does IKArus on IKA’s Blog. Nirox has one in español, puntogeek.com as well and Skorpyo anotherone on my.opera.com. An article on optimizing WordPress 2.3 in italian language by Sante J. Achille features BackUpWordPress. This article is in finnish language and this one in french.
Mert Erkal, a young internet entrepreneur from Istanbul, Turkey talks about it in an article on Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 eaysily. A similar post titled How I Upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 on Live Blog With Zero Downtime sees it as a reqirement for upgrade and blog migration tasks.
It has been bookmarked by 45 people on del.icio.us.
Bot Tracker 2.3.0 released
October 15th, 2007
Bot Tracker 2.3.0 is out now. The most important change is a new feature to track and optionally block attacks.
I’ve been using it since CrawlTrack 2.3.0 was released on 27th of September. Now CrawlTrack/Bot Tracker is logging and blocking code and sql injection attempts!
How to Run Automated Tests on Your WordPress Blog
October 13th, 2007
We usually set up a WordPress website within an offline development environment and migrate it to the target webspace when it is finished. We are used to test everything thoroughly, but…
How do you quickly check if everything is allright, before you go “online”?
How can you check for potential compatibility errors after upgrading WordPress and/or plugins?
The answer is: Run automated HTML Unit Tests.
BackUpWordPress 0.4.1
October 9th, 2007
Some BackUpWordPress users seem to habe problems due to the permission settings on their web server. Either they are not allowed to red/write(delete) backup archives created by the plugin, or the plugin is not allowed to write backup archives into their backup repository.
This release should fix either issues. Update now »
