Hey pig2cat,
I am writing this here since you are hardly on IRC. Do you mind upgrading WordPress to version 3.0.4 and also installing this plugin, so that I can change the date of the project status post when I or Fanofde4ever decide to update it? Still friends? Cool. Here’s an Uiharu for your troubles. Thanks!
Kuzu edit:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Thanks for the link to that plug-in 😀
Ouch you’re still running 2.9.1!? You know upgrading is not that bad, in most cases it’s as simple as pressing upgrade or worst case scenario, ftp’ing up some files. Installing plugins is even easier, you can do it through the admin panel.
Of course don’y do anything without some backups to fall back to, nothing “should” go wrong and honestly it’s hard to mess up your database but one can always find was to screw up.
@WarII
Yeah, I’d upgrade it, but the problem is only pig2cat has ftp access to the website. So all I can do is to wait until he shows up and do the work. 🙁
While you’re at it, make it so that dates show up correctly when looking at posts by category. If I click on any category link (like the “Other Announcements” on this one), all the post dates change to year 2007.
Wow…entrusting the ftp to one person can be preeetty bad if it’s just him.
It’s not that bad. since you have admin access you still have control over everything all-be it indirectly.
Worst case scenario you have to use php to read out the wp-config which will tell you the database username and password, which on cpanel installations is often the same as the ssh and ftp. Of course it doesn’t need to be since you can still dump the files using php and export the database using the stored credentials.
Either way, make sure you regularly backup your wordpress (which can be done from inside woirdpress) in case something ever happens to your host.
@Warll – I’ve NEVER seen a cpanel installation where the database username and password is the same as the ftp account. cpanel separates all that out, and usually people use a randomly generated password for individual MySQL usernames. Fairly sure that installing WordPress via something like Fantastico wouldn’t do that either
@tdb:
That problem is in the archive.php of the theme that we use. The same problem used to also be in the single.php, but somehow that got fixed, but not the one in archive.php.
@monkey, Was the default when for new accounts under WHM last time I used it.
“and usually people use a randomly generated password for individual MySQL usernames”
Oh, if only.
@Warll – Yeah that is true, but I have been surprised with the large amount of potentially stupid people I’ve worked with that ACTUALLY used one. And I would assume the guy managing the ftp for these guys would do it… but I have been wrong in the past.
updated wordpress
and we don’t use stupid shit like cpanel
nginx on a dedi ftw