New owners of their very own hosted Wordpress blog may feel a little overwhelmed with the responsibility they now have. Not only are you in control of the content and the design of your blog, but you must also control the security as well. One of the first things you should do, and the easiest, is to keep track of your Wordpress core and plugin versions.
First step is to log into your Wordpress blog and check the dashboard. Here you can easily see the Wordpress version your are running (2.8.2 currently) and if any of your plugins have updates that need to be applied:
As you can see from the picture (above), we are running the most current core version of Wordpress, but one of our plugins need to be updated. Click the “Plugins” menu item on the left. This will open up a list of all your plugins currently installed. Scroll down the list to see what needs updating (see below):
The quickest way to complete the update is to click the “upgrade automatically” text. Wordpress will download the newest version, update the plugin, and automatically reactivate it. If any errors occurred you will be notified.
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