who's using WP as a CMS for their clients site? I find it so dead easy and intuitive, more so than Joomla and Drupal. But my question is about updates. WP issues updates like free candy. But i'm sure my clients don't want to have to bother doing the updates themselves that often as well as the risk of an update screwing up their templates. My clients either don't blog, or if they do don't allow comments, so is their much of an need for any updating? They have no real security risks, that I know of, if they don't allow comments. So should they just ignore all those too frequent updates? Or I even strip that update notification function out of the code for the dashboard page?
you should always update wordpress once vulnerabilities have been identified. Maybe you could offer to keep them updated for a maint fee?
But if they don't allow comments there should be no vulnerabilities, right? There is nowhere for anyone to upload spam, or mysql injections. Yes, No?
Hi There - I agree that WordPress is great as a CMS, and that you need an update strategy. We have several clients that use it, and here is how we do it: Install a back-up plugin and both set it on automatic and train the client to do their own backups and how the backup plugin works Install an updater plugin and stress that they must backup first Hope this helps. - Scott
that's an assumption. In reality you never know. If it was a personal site I wouldn't be too much worried about it but if it was client site I'd be advising them on how to keep things updated with the latest versions of things.
Meh, I have comments disabled on my blog, and comments still get posted anyway . Don't know what that's all about. If I were you, I would maintain the updates for you client so you could fix any layout bugs for new versions.