Update Core & Plugins on transitionculture.org

[sam]

This site needs an update.

I'll do a database backup then update it.

[ed]

please double check that the TC blog aggregation that is re-publishign the TC blogs from TN.org/tc on TC privately (not published) is still working now and works following the update :)

[chris]

Hi, sorry I haven't got around to doing this sooner, thanks for picking it up.

I was intending to clone the site and test the upgrade on a copy of the site first.

There is also this ticket for the upgrade, ticket:619, it appears you have done the upgrade already, checking with the commandline wp tool:

cd /home/tc/sites/default
wp core version
3.7.1

There is also this outstanding issue with the site: ticket:656

[chris]

Replying to chris:

it appears you have done the upgrade already

Oops I got that wrong, the latest version is 3.8.1.

[sam]

Hi Chris,

Sorry didn't realise there was a ticket for this already. Do you want to go ahead and do it?

I was just going to back up the database on the basis it's only an archive and Wordpress generally updates in a problem free way.

A full copy sounds like the safer way to go though.

I'd probably stick Wordfence on it as per comment here ​/trac/ticket/656

Best

Sam

[sam]

So I exported the content as a .xml file just in case the backup plugin broke things.

I then installed ​​https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ & I'm currently backing up the database & filesystem to Dropbox.

I'll then install Wordfence and see if there is any warnings/malware
.
Once that's done I'll update the plugins, then core.

Then test it's all still working.

[chris]

I got this email as root on wiki:ParrotServer:

From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@parrot.webarch.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:41:59 +0000
To: tc@parrot.webarch.net
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  samrossiter@transitionentwork.org
    Unrouteable address

I'm not sure why this email failed, but can look it up in the logs if needs be.

The email body:

Alert generated at Monday 10th of March 2014 at 08:41:59 PM
Critical Problems:

• Post contains a suspected malware URL: A July Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
• Comment with author Jonathan contains a suspected malware URL.
• Your WordPress version is out of date
• The Plugin "Bad Behavior" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "Breadcrumb NavXT - Adminstration Interface" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "Breadcrumb NavXT - Core" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "BWP Google XML Sitemaps" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "Google Analytics for WordPress" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "MP6" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "Query Monitor" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "Subscribe2" needs an upgrade.
• The Plugin "User Switching" needs an upgrade.

[sam]

Hi Chris

It's just a case of fat fingers & typo in email. I'll update it.

I chickened out of doing the core update without having a test run so i'll do a test on my local machine first.

I did the plugin update & Wordfence install yesterday. Have you seen any bounced/spam emails since about 6pm yesterday?

Thanks

Sam

[chris]

Replying to sam:

Have you seen any bounced/spam emails since about 6pm yesterday?

Nope. Last one:

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:33:38 +0000

[ed]

Sam to follow up as discussed on 26/03

[sam]

Updated and spam issue appears fixed too:/trac/ticket/656 I removed a couple of dodgy spam/malware comments based on the wordpress scan.

Archiving of Rob's blog to private posts confirmed as still working.