I know many of us have Wordpress sites for our business and other uses, so I wanted to pass along an urgent request from Wordpress to upgrade your blogsite. If you haven't seen it on Twitter yet, Mashable published this article with a comment from Wordpress stating that versions below 2.8.4 are vulnerable to hacker attacks. These attacks are creating a new administrator user (the hacker) which can then freeze all of your posts and pages, making them inaccessible to you. From the sounds of things, it's not pretty or fun to try to fix.

Upgrading your blogsite is very easy to do. In fact, if you haven't upgraded already, there is usually a link at the top of your dashboard when you log in that says there is a new version available. If you click on that link, it will give you two options to upgrade. I suggest clicking on the "Upgrade Automatically" as Wordpress will then take care of installing the new version on your blog and you won't have to do anything else, and it only takes a few seconds. It saves a ton of time in the future trying to fix your site if you are attacked by these hackers.

Thanks for the heads up, Mary!

Mimi

Word of warning though - check how much free webspace you have before doing the upgrade and also run the backup.

If you have less than 10megs free it will crash. I had this happen to one of my blogs but the other blogs that had over 20megs free upgraded fine.

Thank you Mary for the reminder. I just completed backing up, then updating my Wordpress sites!

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Darlene Victoria Gonzalez
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I have two clients' websites to upgrade this weekend. Thanks for the attention to checking out the free wordpress space available.

Will keep that in mind!

And yes - always back up first!

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