WordPress without updates?

[Scorpion Ghost]

Yes, nothing to do with the browser. You server is generating the text to send back to the client, and as far as the client is concerned, it's the same as if it were hardcoded.

Nice, very nice.

I'll implement this on two of my sites, and remove 2 tasks from my January 2023 to-do list.

Thanks fellers

 

[MasterOfMasks]

But let me ask you, is this all browser and device compatible?

yeah, that php code is processed by the server and the user/client only gets the response,, which is the current year

 

[davids355]

Once you’ve been hacked and ended up having to rebuild your entire site, then you don’t mind installing those security updates because it’s much easier.

 

[Dopious]

Install your updates regularly as they come, to lazy as the princess cat owner that don´t share her images? Hire someone to look after your sites instead, whatever you do, update WordPress and it´s themes and plugins regularly.

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

Is anyone running with older versions of WordPress and doing just fine? I don't like the idea of constant updates. I like to keep things simple.

Do we really need to constantly update WordPress for security reasons? Isn't Cloudflare enough?

See OP? Now you have a choice to make.

You have my way, the cheapest path of least resistance:

We may be soulmates you and me.

I understand you and i feel the same way.

What you can do is, bring your site to a working state. Make sure everything works. Then disable all updates, and never update anything again.

Your site will continue to work, and you wont have any problems.

But, its not all fun and games. If any of your themes or plugins have some sort of security vulnerability, you can get hacked and malicious files placed in your site. Even if you spot and remove the malicious files, if the vulnerability is still there, it will happen again.

But honestly, you can probably ride like this for years and years with no problems whatsoever.

Because if you keep everything up to date, your entire life will devolve into this depressing existance where all you do is update something every other day, and then waste your time and money trying to fix all the problems that the update created for you.

Most people on this forum will tell you that you should stay up to date always. Theyll tell you that they never had any problems with updating anything. But these guys live on a planet thats different than the one i live on. Also most people on here dont really make any money, so their advice is, you know, grain of salt.

Anyway, all advice is grain of salt. But yes, staying up to date is like a cat chasing its own tail. May feel fun, but ultimately its a jerkoff.

So you have my permission to bring your site to a working state, and then disable those fucking annoying updates. Make sure to install wordfence, and always check any email you receive from wordfence, and if you notice it ever shows you newly created files, but you know you didnt create any new files, make sure to go find and delete them.

And going back to the beginning, try not to start off with nulled plugins and theme.

Good luck

And you have their way, the right way:

Once you’ve been hacked and ended up having to rebuild your entire site, then you don’t mind installing those security updates because it’s much easier.

Install your updates regularly as they come, to lazy as the princess cat owner that don´t share her images? Hire someone to look after your sites instead, whatever you do, update WordPress and it´s themes and plugins regularly.

So you make the decision and move on.

If you're unsure, my suggestion is you flip a coin. Heads you do me, tails you do them. You can be confident in what the coin tells you to do, because the money will never lie <3

 

[davids355]

See OP? Now you have a choice to make.

You have my way, the cheapest path of least resistance:



And you have their way, the right way:





So you make the decision and move on.

If you're unsure, my suggestion is you flip a coin. Heads you do me, tails you do them. You can be confident in what the coin tells you to do, because the money will never lie <3

Personification at its finest.

All hail the coin.

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

Personification at its finest.

All hail the coin.

I wish I could like it twice

 

[itz_styx]

just enable auto updates?

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

just enable auto updates?

You really want the guy to wake up to Wordpress + 2 plugins updated, and 17 things broken on the site, with him not even knowing that they're broken?

 

[Matta28]

I like it fresh on everything, so I update always whatever it is

 

[itz_styx]

You really want the guy to wake up to Wordpress + 2 plugins updated, and 17 things broken on the site, with him not even knowing that they're broken?

doesnt happen often unless you use shitty plugins and then it would also happen if you manually update.

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

doesnt happen often unless you use shitty plugins and then it would also happen if you manually update.

Oh come on bro.

Is Contact Form 7 a shitty plugin? Is SNAP (social media autoposter) a shitty plugin?

Just on a new site I made, I had to downgrade SNAP because the newer version would break something on my site.

Then Contact Form 7 auto-updated, and the form broke. I'm lucky I even caught it, good thing I'm still working on making the site and not running it live, because if it was live I wouldn't have noticed for who knows how long. I downgraded it, and now it works fine.

No no, if you update, you're just asking for trouble

It's not a problem for you probably because you probably can tell what each update does and you also know how to fix it all. And others don't care because they pay people like you to keep their sites running fine. But for normal poor people it doesn't work that way.

 

[itz_styx]

yes contact form 7 is a shitty plugin when you check its history
it also depends how many plugins you install and what they do.
personally i honestly never had an issue that a plugin would completely break one of my sites after an update and i run many sites with wp.
of course i heard of it and i know it happens, but its not like that it happens all the time and with every update.
i had it happen when installing a plugin, but then you know whats the cause.
anyways i also usually do updates manually, but i'm then again i'm not so annoyed by updating stuff.
so when updating bothers someone, auto updates are an option. then you just have to check your sites once in a while if everything still works (or setup monitoring).
keeping wp updated is very important otherwise you get 0wned. i mean you can get away with not always updating to latest wp core instantly, but the plugins are usually the ones that have serious vulnerabilities, so those i would keep updated for sure.

 

[provocative]

Use a good managed wp hosting (not the fake ones) they are doing all updates for you, after comparing it to previous result if your website crushed or something they automatically roll-back.

 

[Sartre]

Is anyone running with older versions of WordPress and doing just fine? I don't like the idea of constant updates. I like to keep things simple.

Do we really need to constantly update WordPress for security reasons? Isn't Cloudflare enough?

WordPress is VERY backwards compatible and updates, in general, don't cause issues on normal sites. You can always do a backup before updating or use a staging site.

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

yes contact form 7 is a shitty plugin when you check its history
it also depends how many plugins you install and what they do.
personally i honestly never had an issue that a plugin would completely break one of my sites after an update and i run many sites with wp.
of course i heard of it and i know it happens, but its not like that it happens all the time and with every update.
i had it happen when installing a plugin, but then you know whats the cause.
anyways i also usually do updates manually, but i'm then again i'm not so annoyed by updating stuff.
so when updating bothers someone, auto updates are an option. then you just have to check your sites once in a while if everything still works (or setup monitoring).
keeping wp updated is very important otherwise you get 0wned. i mean you can get away with not always updating to latest wp core instantly, but the plugins are usually the ones that have serious vulnerabilities, so those i would keep updated for sure.

I only install plugins for things that I can't do without a plugin. I try to keep it to as few plugins as possible. I generally end up with 10-15 plugins on my sites.

Use a good managed wp hosting (not the fake ones) they are doing all updates for you, after comparing it to previous result if your website crushed or something they automatically roll-back.

At the end of the day, an update could break anything. I would wish a problematic update would always crash the entire site.

But what happens when an update breaks a certain button but only for certain users and only for certain actions and only for a certain browser. What now? How am I gonna know it? So I'm supposed to after every update to check every form and every functionality on my site with every browser and device?

Got outta heeere. Updates, Disabled, Peace

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

you could simply do the simple code :

<?php

echo date("Y");

?>

and it will always show the current year

No need for a config file to change the year man every year haha

Yes, nothing to do with the browser. You server is generating the text to send back to the client, and as far as the client is concerned, it's the same as if it were hardcoded.

Just so you guys understand that it's not all fun and games

I tried implementing the php footer year thing on one of my sites (not the one I tested it on yesterday), and I got this error:

"unexpected tag name got ?..."

I did the google, found someone having the same issue, and some else asking him if he's using a .html page?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...ected-tag-name-got-instead-html-doesn-t-suppo
So I checked, and indeed my file here was an .html file. The entire site is .php files, but a few pages are .html, I have no idea why.

I changed that file to .php, I checked the page, it seems to load fine. Then I added the php code, and it works fine.

So you see, it's always some problems

Could there be any issues because I changed the file from .html to a .php?

 

[MasterOfMasks]

Just so you guys understand that it's not all fun and games

I tried implementing the php footer year thing on one of my sites (not the one I tested it on yesterday), and I got this error:

"unexpected tag name got ?..."

I did the google, found someone having the same issue, and some else asking him if he's using a .html page?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58163800/how-can-i-fix-the-error-expected-tag-name-got-instead-html-doesn-t-suppo
So I checked, and indeed my file here was an .html file. The entire site is .php files, but a few pages are .html, I have no idea why.

I changed that file to .php, I checked the page, it seems to load fine. Then I added the php code, and it works fine.

So you see, it's always some problems

Could there be any issues because I changed the file from .html to a .php?

yeah, the files' extension must be .php in order for them to work properly

 

[Scorpion Ghost]

yeah, the files' extension must be .php in order for them to work properly

Yeah, good thing I am an expert (google) and I figured it out

 

[MasterOfMasks]

Yeah, good thing I am an expert (google) and I figured it out

haha you don't need to be an expert to change a file extension from .html to .php