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They said it and they will do it. Your blog might be dropped by Technorati for not upgrading to WordPress 2.5.

According to their official blog of April 7, 2008:

Blogs that have been compromised by this security vulnerability are typified by having links to spam destinations inserted onto the blog page. These link insertions may be invisible to casual observations; the links are often obscured by style attributes that render them invisible.

And as a result, Technorati will be:

discontinuing processing crawls of blogs that exhibit common symptoms of being compromised.

Although after running a check, I found no compromised security problems with my blog, I still decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 a couple of days ago as a precaution. If such unfortunate things ever happened, the damage would be more than being dropped by Technorati, but also by Google and Yahoo.

Most people feel upgrading WordPress a headache. Actually it is not! What you need to do is only to replace files under the ROOT, WP-admin and WP-includes folders and leave wp-configure.php intact. After replacing these files, visit the upgrade link and you are done.

WordPress 2.5 not only features a streamlined control panel, but also better functionalities such as one key update of plug-ins. Very cute. After upgrading, I also found no spam comments waiting for me to moderate.

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