Technorati Will No Longer Index Vulnerable WordPress Blogs
So Technorati has decided to no longer index blogs that may be affected by a security issue in WordPress before version 2.3.3. Now WordPress has already reached version 2.5 but I’m not exactly sure how to feel about this.
On one hand I’m glad someone is standing up and telling the community that they really need to stay up to date or bad things may happen but at the same time I feel like it isn’t an indexers job to tell me that my blog needs to be up to date.
For a while this blog wasn’t up to date, mostly because I had almost abandoned it due to some personal reasons combined with becoming incredibly busy on my other blogs, but that’s a whole other issue entirely. I would probably be very upset if Technorati quit indexing this blog, even if it wasn’t up to date.
But at the same time I also think that it is Technorati’s job to point you towards quality blogs, and if these blogs aren’t quality (not staying up to date may be a symptom of not being of quality) then I don’t want Technorati to point to them.
Overall I think that this is probably good but I still wonder about those who don’t really know how to upgrade WordPress because someone else installed it for them originially, is the installer going to contact them and tell them that they need to upgrade? Probably not, so I guess the solution to this whole problem is, If you know how to update WordPress, stay up to date, and if you don’t find someone who does and have them help you.
WordPress’s New Admin Theme
I recently updated to WordPress 2.5 on both of my blogs and although I love WordPress, I hate the new version 2.5 admin panel, not only does it seem extremely difficult to really get anything done, I have a hell of a time finding things that I’ve been using in WordPress for the past year.
This could just be me complaining for complaining sake but I hate the new “write new post” page. I really liked that all of the options for the post were along the right side of the page, but now there is about 1/4 of the page that is just white space and most of the options that used to be along the right side have moved below the text box, which might just be the worst place for them to be placed.
I hope the developers decide to get their act together and find somebody else to do the design of the admin panel because this just isn’t going to work.
