Damn iPhone dictionary changed hug to huh. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

yeah seriously. lets move on. mine got hit as well. its back up. - Sameer

i dunno...you might want to have another think about that... :) - Simon Hicks

you should hire someone to do the occasional WP updates :-) - Holger Eilhard

I am about to move to squarespace anyway - Shawn Hickman

I would anticipate that an update to WordPress in the near future will have the ability to push automatic updates. Its nearly there now. - Doug McCaughan

Holger: believe me they are being done now. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

in the social economy, its' not money or health that suffers. This one comes out of your reputation bank account. No worries, you are rich there - Warren Whitlock

Ah well....the perils of making your mistakes in public instead of in quiet peaceful anonymity and obscurity like the rest of us..lol :-) - Julia Ault

I realize you are a lightening rod for these types of discussions Robert. but I have had many discussions with web designers/developers who are about fed up with the amount of updating and securing involved w/ self-hosted WordPress blogs. some have had similar experiences as you w/ regards to being hacked. - jbrotherlove

Opportunities like this excite all the "you should"ers. It's all good until it happens to them – and if they're interesting enough, it surely will. - Jason Hargrove

Beginning to see cooler heads today on this issue. Yesterday you would think everyone was on crazy pills. - David Bisset

Doug: Problem with the update system I've seen until now is that it requires to have an FTP account to the machine. (?) I try to stay away from that insecure thing as far as possible and only use SFTP via ssh... - Holger Eilhard

There are worse things in life. Singing offkey and torturing billions as a result is one :D - Sean Kearney

jbrotherlove: Maybe those designers/developers aren't up on the latest. Wordpress has a one-button update. How hard could that be? Haven't been forced to update Wordpress blogs in a while... plus there are ways to make your Wordpress site more secure, backup databases, etc. blah, blah, blah... :) - David Bisset

Like ;), this is the spirit! - CantorJF from iPhone

Tim: yadda yadda yadda ? :) - David Bisset

Holger: I'm an sftp/ssh fan myself. Perhaps we should encourage the wp team to push for a more secure AND automatic update process. - Doug McCaughan

Doug: Yep, we should! I've been wondering too why they're ignoring the fact that FTP is insecure! On the other hand I just did a quick search for this and found this post: http://devioustree.co.uk/2009... Or there should be an option to put the up-to-date version of WP into a given folder manually and have wordpress automatically update from there. Shouldn't be too complicated? - Holger Eilhard

David Bisset, you're right. there is a one-button backup option. but it has not worked as well (or at all) for some users (it worked for me). as for all the ways to make WP more secure, that's great if you are tech savvy with 1-2 blogs. when you are an "average" user or have multiple clients using WP, it's not so attractive. - jbrotherlove

There are ways to make Wordpress more secure (outside of keep it updated). I'm betting now that you'll be seeing it in newer Wordpress versions by default. As a Wordpress developer, it's also my responsibility to spread the word. - David Bisset

jbrotherlove: Well, it's up to Automatic or someone then to figure out why it doesn't work for everybody then. I've had no problems with it, and you noted you didn't either. Users with issues could be using crappy plugins perhaps? Just a guess. - David Bisset

Since time before time, asses will try and take what you've got. // "Massive ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem" http://is.gd/2XE6K (CNN) ///// I wonder how many holes those people felt obliged to continually patch. - Jason Hargrove

After trying many platforms like Joomla, b2Eveolution, and others, for blogging, CMS, and sites, Wordpress is still a Best Solution even during it's growing pains. - jacky

In my line of work if I screw up, someone's life or property is in jeopardy. Sometimes I wish I had your job. :-) - Captain Jack

certainly are...like forgetting anniversary present ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

lol at least you admit it unlike all the other people who get hit with security issues when they don't update their software then claim it's not my fault lol - Rob Cairns

WordPress only uses FTP to update in order to have the proper user permissions. If you use suPHP on the server, it can update itself directly, not needing the FTP info. - Otto from iPhone