Comments on: How We Mass Upgrade Blogs

By: b5media - Brian Layman Joins Tech Team

b5media - Brian Layman Joins Tech Team — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:04:40 +0000

[...] he released his own tool for upgrading WordPress blogs and I followed shortly thereafter with the script I developed for use at b5media. He has supposedly recanted his sacrilege in return for us hiring [...]

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Around the web | alexking.org — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:09:54 +0000

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By: HART-Empire.com » Quickies - January 15, 2007 (HART-EMPIRE NETWORK)

HART-Empire.com » Quickies - January 15, 2007 (HART-EMPIRE NETWORK) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:10:19 +0000

[...] to the same level .. I wish I could utililize a mass automated upgrade process … like Aaron Brazell suggests … but I’m not quite ready (knowledgable-wise) to implement something like [...]

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:04:31 +0000

There are also issues too, with WPMU .. I’m running a version at http://PetLvr-Blogs.com however, I’m just playing now :)

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:00:57 +0000

The WordPress philosophy is for the individual blogs and bloggers. Very little is done to assist in Enterprise. That’s not a knock against WordPress. Just that they can’t be all things to all people.

Microsoft recognized this for a long time now – which is why, among other things, they have Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro.

The best chance there is for a WordPress that is gerared to enterprise is a fork.

We’re content with what we have to do now, so we’re not pushing for a fork. But a fork would be useful as more big businesses running multiple instalations of WordPress come to the forefront.

For the record, it is difficult for anyone to maintain WordPress on our scale without dealing with systems stuff – that is, getting outside of WordPress immediate.

Then there is WPMU.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:55:46 +0000

Well, thanks for clearing that up (I wasn’t really hounding, was I?)

I’m not sure something like this would be suitable for me – at this stage. And, I have no clue what that thing about the comments and domain have to do anything about it, but that’s beside the point. I have two ISPs .. one is on Windows not unix, and the other is a Reseller Account with it’s own issues and individual logins, split among many individual servers.

Rather than take a crash course in Computer programming, I now see the need ever more to try and join the crowd in influencing WORDPRESS to just include an automatic upgrade!

Thanks for sharing.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:43:41 +0000

I’d like to note that this is really only a part of an ever-evolving picture. Aaron’s done a fantastic job at nudging us towards a more centralized and managed environment and tools like this certainly don’t hurt ;-)

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:42:34 +0000

Yep. Couldn’t survive without you, Sean. :)

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:43:19 +0000

As a guy who had a hand in other parts of the b5 setup I’ll add another note about consistency: Pretty much everything is done by scripts. The comment field has the domain name in it because the account creation routines did it. That way we can use scripts like the mass upgrade one.

Sean (who does paid consulting on Linux stuff too :) )