For Ques#1, You don’t need to use prepare here. Its called upon your data internally. See this line in code here – http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/wp-db.php#L1220 For Ques#2, Why are you updating a post with sql queries? You should be using WordPress API for that – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post
Simply put it doesn’t know. WordPress core periodically submits all the plugin data to api.wordpress.org (see wp_update_plugins()) which responds with updates available. Note that plugins are downloaded as archives, SVN doesn’t participate in the process directly and is only used as back-end storage mechanism. So “knowing” that plugin doesn’t belong is essentially when API cannot … Read more
I’ve run into this lately. I saw that update to French version after I had just added fr_FR in the wp_lang variable of wp-config.pho. No need to go get the files, just click update 🙂
I don’t think anyone can give you a guarantee that you will have no problems, however typically WordPress handles the upgrade process very well. You are only a couple of versions behind so I wouldn’t anticipate any major problems. You should consider: Back up all the files and database before proceeding. If you don’t know … Read more
There is no dedicated way to check a version of WP install remotely. On other hand this isn’t really complicated, you could scrape a page for generator meta tag or just readme.html of WP core since you would know exact location of it. For checking what’s available you can call to WordPress org updates API, … Read more
Manually updating WordPress fixes this issue. Upgrading WordPress Core Manually (How To) WordFence Reference First create a full backup of your website. This is very important in case you make a mistake. Download the newest WordPress ZIP file from wordpress.org. Unzip the file into a directory on your local machine or in a separate directory … Read more
If you have this statement (by default) in your wp-config file define( ‘WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE’, true ); Then WP core files are automatically updated for you. This assumes that you have traffic to your site (if nobody ever visits your site, the updates won’t happen.) So your solution is actually causing more work by the server, and … Read more
First of all you can follow WordPress Blog and its Releases category. Another great source of information on that is page with WordPress Versions on Codex – here you can find info on every version – link to changelog (very useful – it contains list of changed files and links to trac tickets solved in … Read more
It’s not right in front of you, but you can obtain this information from the back end. Go to Tools -> Site Health -> Click on Info tab. Clicking on the first drop-down (‘WordPress’) will get you the current version and the latest.
The problem with changing usernames is that it’s a caching issue and that it breaks /author/username URLs. The URL breaking issue is obvious. The caching issue is less obvious. If you’re using a persistent object cache like memcached or something, then the username will be stored in that cache, and thus it won’t change properly … Read more