WordPress 4.4 is rolling out
The latest revision of WordPress is due out today. If they are on schedule you should see this update in your sites soon.
What's changing:
- The permalink is now a real link and the shortcode will not be available.
- Images will be fully responsive - This means that it is more important than ever to optimize your images BEFORE you put them on your site.
- Comment forms are changing - Now the comment will be first and the login credentials will appear below the comment.
- Embed a post from another WordPress Blog - Most of us won't have much use for this but if both WordPress sites are at version 4.4 then a simple link will embed another's post into your blog. It opens in the same window though. To do this correctly, it should open in a new window.
- There is a major change to the REST API - This is only half of the work that needs to be done to this API so look for a useful change to the REST API in early 2016 with the update to version 4.5
The important thing is that this is a major update to WordPress so make sure you have a full backup and know how to restore it. (Some backup plugins are not easily restored)
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Can someone tell me in really simple terms how to back up. I've never done it before. Thanks
Craig's great answers here : Backup- Getting Started How to backup and restore your wordpress website with WP Clone
I blogged about this a while back. We only have 4 WordPress webmasters and about 8 or 10 WordPress active sites mostly for clients. most of my websites are not WordPress but I did not think to have them all back to us individually. I will send out a message now to do just that. I only make a new back up after a change is made normally. definitely not a part of IT best practices but this is not IT, this is web junk.
Thanks for heads up you're blogs are alway insightful, you're a good asset to the community at wa nice!!!
Thanks for the update. Ditto to Alan's and Luke's comments - what method do you recommend for backing up?
For full releases like this one, I will take a WP Clone image, then if there is a problem, I can restore the site as if I were moving it to another location.
For general backups, (not including the database) I will use the export feature inside WordPress.
Good to know. I just discovered my backups aren't running, though they used to. Put that next on my list.
Thanks for the info Craig.
Will lookout for this update and I backup my WP 2/3 times a week anyway.
Have a nice day.
Robert
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Hi Craig, doesn't WA back up our websites daily or do you still need to back them up manually yourself?
Yes they do and yes you should also do your own.