You might not have guessed that the Blog Wranglers perform WordPress version upgrades for clients since it does not involve migration, but we do just about anything that comes our way.
Just this week we were contacted by a client who hosts at DreamHost and was stuck in WordPress version 2.0.1. She wanted an upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. One of the biggest reasons you should upgrade is that older WP installs are subject to attacks. Another is to take advantage of all of the great new features. In other cases functional breakdowns appear.
This client’s main reason to upgrade WordPress was simply that it was time to do it. Imagine our surprise when we realized that the site was hacked by an injection attack between the time that the client first contacted us and when we were given the project go ahead. Like I said above, the best reason to upgrade is to avoid security issues that leave you vulnerable to getting hacked.
This client benefited from excellent timing. Quick identification and remediation of the site hack avoided likely being labeled as an attack site by the search engines and anti-virus/security software!
Instead we were able to clean up the system and upgrade the WordPress version all the way from 2.0.1 to 3.0.3. So, this was just in the nick of time.
We found injected code such as this at the top of each php page:
<!–?php /**/eval(base64_decode … ?–>
That code will results in de-listing with Google and a blocking of the site.
You can have your blog upgraded from any WordPress version to the current one too! Just give us a hollar with the details and we would be happy to work with you.
Curious about the WordPress major releases and the dates they were released?
Release History
Version Date
.70 May 27, 2003
1.0 January 3, 2004
1.2 May 22, 2004
1.5 February 17, 2005
2.0 December 31, 2005
2.1 January 22, 2007
2.2 May 16, 2007
2.3 September 24, 2007
2.5 March 29, 2008
2.6 July 15, 2008
2.7 December 10, 2008
2.8 June 11, 2009
2.9 December 18, 2009
3.0 June 17, 2010
However there are many interim releases!
Here is a list:
Version
0.71-gold
1.0.1-miles
1.0.2
1.0.2-blakey
1.0-platinum
1.2-delta
1.2-mingus
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.5-strayhorn
1.5.1
1.5.1.1
1.5.1.2
1.5.1.3
1.5.2
2.0
2.0.1
2.0.4
2.0.5
2.0.6
2.0.7
2.0.8
2.0.9
2.0.10
2.0.11
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.2
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.3
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.5
2.5.1
2.6
2.6.1
2.6.2
2.6.3
2.6.5
2.7
2.7.1
2.8-IIS
2.8
2.8.1-IIS
2.8.1
2.8.2-IIS
2.8.2
2.8.3-IIS
2.8.3
2.8.4-IIS
2.8.4
2.8.4a-IIS
2.8.4b-IIS
2.8.5-IIS
2.8.5
2.8.6-IIS
2.8.6
2.9-IIS
2.9
2.9.1-IIS
2.9.1
2.9.2-IIS
2.9.2
3.0-IIS
3.0
3.0.1-IIS
3.0.1
3.0.2-IIS
3.0.2
3.0.3-IIS
3.0.3
We have been working with WordPress since before the 1.x version series which makes us confident that we can help you get up to speed.