{"id":1143,"date":"2012-12-13T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2012-12-13T15:06:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T06:06:13","slug":"wordpress-3-5-released-update-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wordpress-3-5-released-update-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.5 Released &#8211; Update Safely!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WordPress 3.5 was released<\/strong> yesterday and it includes many usability updates &#8211; especially for the media manager.<\/p>\n<p>Although there were no significant security updates mentioned we do recommend that you update as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However this is a major release, so it could potentially break a few things<\/strong>. Especially plugins and themes might require updates.<\/p>\n<p>Most plugin and theme authors are pretty quick to release updates if required, but you might run into trouble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore we strongly recommend that you test this update on a development\/test server before you update your live website.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To install your WordPress site on your local computer to test the update follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Backup your live site:<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you store and label a copy of this backup so it is easy to find.<br \/>\nNote you could detect a problem only after some time has passed, so be sure to keep that backup handy for a while.<\/li>\n<li>Install your backup on your local computer.<br \/>\nThis will also test that you can restore your site from your backup<\/li>\n<li>Test the current version of your site on your local computer.<br \/>\nNote that some parts might work sligthly differently on your local install compared to your live site.<br \/>\nThis includes WordPress File Monitor Plus (because the file system is different on your local computer) and WP Login Security 2 (because your local WordPress install might not be able to send email).<br \/>\nFor WP Login Security 2 you might have to remove the wp-contentpluginswp-<wbr>security-login-2 folder on your local computer.<\/wbr><\/li>\n<li>Update WordPress on your local computer.<\/li>\n<li>Test thoroughly that everything works.<br \/>\nMake sure you test every plugin that you use.<\/li>\n<li>Finally update your live site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 3.5 was released yesterday and it includes many usability updates &#8211; especially for the media manager. Although there were no significant security updates mentioned we do recommend that you update as soon as possible. However this is a major release, so it could potentially break a few things. Especially plugins and themes might require [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[530,528,529],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress-3-5","tag-wordpress-3-5-released-update-safely","tag-wordpress-3-5-released-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santoshkori.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}