{"id":846,"date":"2016-02-26T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2016-02-27T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T12:51:47","slug":"wordpress-a-lovehate-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wordpress-a-lovehate-note\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#8211; A Love\/Hate Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-847\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-847\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb-150x150.png\" alt=\"wordpress-logo-notext-rgb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb-400x400.png 400w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I have been using WordPress for quite a while now, both for my own websites, (whether personal or commercial) and in my teaching.<\/p>\n<p>It is really useful, and really good.<\/p>\n<p>But: since v3 when they started introducing AUTOUPDATE, WordPress has <strong>KILLED MY WEBSITE<\/strong> so many times, by updating itself when either a theme or plugin I was using wasn&#8217;t ready for such an update, or when the update caused mayhem on my server and half of it ended up &#8216;owned&#8217; by Apache and unwritable except over Shell, logged in as root, etc etc., and simply a BLANK page to any visitor &#8211; with the backend broken, too, only fixable by uploading a complete replacement from external backup.<\/p>\n<p>I have lost count of the HOURS of my time that have been wasted returning a website to what it was yesterday, after WordPress had destroyed it.<\/p>\n<p>I have, henceforth, as a matter of course, ALWAYS added to wp-config.php, on all sites (covering all bases):<\/p>\n<p>define( &#8216;WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE&#8217;, false );<\/p>\n<p>define( &#8216;AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED&#8217;, true );<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using WordPress for quite a while now, both for my own websites, (whether personal or commercial) and in my teaching. It is really useful, and really good. But: since v3 when they started introducing AUTOUPDATE, WordPress has KILLED MY WEBSITE so many times, by updating itself when either a theme or plugin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wordpress-a-lovehate-note\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress &#8211; A Love\/Hate Note&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}