“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”. -William Butler Yeats –
WordPress 3.2 is going to be released very soon, and we want you to be ready! Take note: the minimum requirements are changing.
PHP and MySQL
As of 3.2, you’ll need to be running PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. As we mentioned almost a year ago when we announced that this change was coming, the percentage of people running older versions of PHP and MySQL is relatively low. With more than 45 million people using WordPress, though, even a small percentage can mean a lot of people! Don’t caught with your pants dashboard down — make sure you’re running compatible versions of PHP and MySQL before you update tomorrow when WordPress 3.2 is released.
Log in to your hosting account, and check to make sure you have at least PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. Most of the major hosts already default to these or newer versions, but there are some exceptions. Check to see which versions you are running, and if you’re still on an older version, it should be as simple as changing a dropdown menu and clicking Save to get up to date.
If you don’t know how to find this information in your hosting account or you don’t even know how to access your hosting control panel because someone else manages that for you, don’t fret. You can find out if you’re ready for 3.2 with the Health Check plugin. In your dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New and search for “health check” (it should be the first result). Install it, activate it, and it will tell you if you need to update anything.
If you need more help, contact your host’s customer service and use this email template to ask them to help you.
Hi there. I host my domain [example.com] with you, and I run WordPress on my site. The minimum requirements are changing to PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0, and I would appreciate your help in confirming that my site’s setup meets these requirements. If I’m currently running an older version of PHP or MySQL, could you update it for me, or tell me how to do it? Thanks so much!
If your host replies that they can’t update to these versions, it might be time to look for a new host.
IE6 and Outdated Browsers
With 3.2, we’re also dropping support for Internet Explorer 6, a 10-years-old outdated browser that even Microsoft is ready to leave behind. From now on, if you access your WordPress dashboard from an outdated browser, we’ll let you know. Why? Because as web technology improves, so does WordPress, as we build features to take advantage of these improvements. If you’re using an out-of-date browser, chances are you’re missing out.
If your browser is out of date, you’ll see a friendly orangey-yellow box in your dashboard letting you know you a newer version is available (which you can dismiss, of course). If you’re using IE6, though, the box will be red, and your dashboard will not function properly. If you’re stuck on IE6 because the computer you use is maintained by a business, library, school, or the like, and you are not able to download a newer browser, here’s a sample email you can use to ask your boss/administrator/IT guys to update the browser.
Hi there. The computer I use at [where you use the computer] is equipped with an out-of-date web browser. Internet Explorer 6 was created 10 years ago, before modern web standards, and does not support modern web applications. More and more sites and applications are dropping support for IE6, including the new version of WordPress. Even Microsoft, the makers of IE6, are counting down until IE6 goes the way of the dinosaur (see http://www.ie6countdown.com/ for more information). Can you please install an updated version of IE or any modern browser (see http://browsehappy.com for more information) on the available computers? Thank you very much.
Which would you most prefer
doing in your free time?
Playing sports
Sleeping
Scaring people
Eating
Reading
Which is you favorite animal
out of these?
Cat
Bird
Dog
Human
I hate all of them
If you had to play a sport,
which of the following would you choose?
A team sport, like soccer
something logical, like chess
something which you can cheat
at
something you’re good at
a non-team sport, like a race
Which do you prefer?
Order and structure, a
routine
any situation where you’re in
control
Chaos, complete chaos
A mixture
whatever, you don’t care
What are you at this moment?
Mad
Angry
Crazy
Insane
Normal
If you were in a book, would
you most like to be?
The hero/heroine
the ally to the hero/heroine
the villain
A random character
I’d rather be in a poetry
book
Pick a word to describe
yourself:
Unreasonable
Logical
Weird
Hungry
Creative
Were you popular at school?
No
No, everyone was scared of me
cause I did weird things and freaked them out
I was averagely popular
I seemed popular but people
were only pretending
I was super popular Which of these characters would you most like
to be?
Queen of Hearts
Alice
Cheshire cat
Mad Hatter
Tweedle Dum/Tweedle Dee
What
Choices Did You Make? How
Did You Decide Which Box to
Check
Are you a coldly
rational, benefit-maximizer or are you an impulsive, shortsighted
procrastinator? See your results of the
quiz below:
Quiz
Results
Queen of Hearts
You tend you lose your cool easily but people know a lot of the time it’s
not too serious as you don’t stick to what you say. Sometimes people pretend to
like you cause they’re too scared not to. You can be self-centered and
unfair…but hey, aren’t we all?
(I scored: 11%)
Alice
You’re the type of person who likes structure and routine when it’s not
there but when you have it you just want freedom. You’re a loyal and honest
friend and a very logical thinker. You tend to think too deeply about some
things and not enough about others.
(I scored: 11%)
Cheshire cat
You’re an
eccentric, oddball weirdo. You tend not to worry too much about the things that
happen in life because you know most of it’s not going to matter in the end
anyway. However, sometimes you can be a bit too weird and people just want to
see the real you.
(I scored: 23%)
Mad Hatter
You enjoy sitting around and not doing much. You don’t enjoy sports much;
instead you’d rather hang out with your friends. You can be irritatingly
ignorant to the facts and consequences of real life, preferring to hide away in
your own little cloud.
(I scored: 23%) Tweedle Dee/Tweedle
Dum
You’re a creative, expressive person. Maybe it’s writing, acting, music or
painting but you like to express yourself. You have a reasonably broad
perspective on things and that makes you a good person. However sometimes you
need to float back down to earth from that artsy haze you live in.
(I scored: 32%)
How
Did You Score? (Be honest now!)
Do
you think that the test accurately illustrated how you make choices and decide
things, or was it a meaningless exercise?
Love is longing and longing, the pain of being parted;
No illness is rich enough for the distress of the heart,
A lover’s lament surpasses all other cries of pain.
Love is the royal threshold to God’s mystery.
The carnival of small affe…ctions and polite attachments
Which litter and consume our passing time
Is no match to Love which pulses behind this play.
It’s easy to talk endlessly about Love,
To live Love is to be seized by joy and bewilderment;
Love is not clear-minded, busy with images and argument.
Language is too precocious, too impudent, too sane
To stop the molten lava of Love which churns the blood,
This practicing energy burns the tongue to silence;
The knowing pen is disabled, servile paper
Shrivels in the fire of Love. Bald reason too is an ass
Explaining Love, deceived by spoilt lucidity.
Love is dangerous offering no consolation,
Only those who are ravaged by Love know Love,
The sun alone unveils the sun to those who have
The sense to receive the senseless and not turn away.
Cavernous shadows need the light to play but light
And light alone can lead you to the light alone.
Material shadows weigh down your vision with dross,
But the rising sun splits the ashen moon in empty half.
The outer sun is our daily miracle in timely
Birth and death, the inner sun
Dazzles the inner eye in a timeless space.
Our daily sun is but a working star in a galaxy of stars,
Our inner sun is One, the dancing nuance of eternal light.
You must be set alight by the inner sun,
You have to live your Love or else
You’ll only end in words.
