Avoid Wordpress 2.6

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by SinSational

interesting...
we've been doing some research on 2.6 and were going to suggest people upgrade.
2.5 had major security issues, so we suggested people upgrade to 2.5.1 but 2.5.1 has coding flaws that cause extreme server loads. safe to say there will always be issues with free scripts.

The coding issues of 2.5.1 are somewhat fixable. There are no published large security holes in 2.5.1 (but a couple of small ones may exist). But the original build of 2.6 was a horrible piece of crap, untested with many very basic errors. It was a shocking bad release, that is for sure. Basic errors from the permalinks not working to people getting entirely locked out of their admin areas... not new feature bugs but in fact poorly tested fixes.

I think the current build is a bit better, fixes some issues, but other issues are for 2.6.1 or even 2.7. These guys are terrible for breaking shit and not checking.

Don't get me started on their stupid revision code that dumps all those revised posts into your wp_posts database, and then makes the entire site performance suffer by having so many more records to search through each time.

Toby, you can turn it off by adding code to the program, but I am not sure where. But it will get wiped out again at your next update.