Why you need to upgrade WordPress

Please upgrade your WordPress installation to 2.8.4 if you’re still hanging on to an older version.

There’s a particularly nasty worm that will do awful things to your WordPress sites. It will infect your site and use it as a launching pad to find more sites to infect. Google and other sites will label your site as dangerous, your traffic will decline and on top of that you’ll most likely lose months worth of posts just like Robert Scoble did.

So, as in past update-your-site-now posts, please back up your database (Tools > Export is the easiest way to do so – it’ll get all your pages & posts), disable all your plugins and run the update.

DO IT NOW.

I urge you.

Keeping WordPress updated is so much easier than recovering from being hacked.

If you need help, don’t hesitate to ask. I check Twitter often & you can always email me.