Category: WordPress installation
WordPress 3.8.3
Again? Within 7 or 8 days, we upgraded from WordPress 3.8.2 to WordPress 3.8.3.
Does WordPress Update Too Frequently?
Frequent software updates may cause users a lot of trouble when they don't know how and some have too much customization (so auto updates may break the themes or plugins they have.
Fortunately, the websites we have been designing for our clients can update without breaking the code and the sites.
Also we love Softaculous Auto Update, which can update WordPress and send us an email notice: "Your site has updated to WordPress 3.8.3" within one day or two.
You may not have to update from 3.8.2 if you don't use "Quick Draft"
The “Quick Draft” tool on the dashboard screen was broken in the 3.8.2 update. If you tried to use it, your draft would disappear and it wouldn’t save. While we doubt anyone was writing a novella using this tool, any loss of content is unacceptable to us.
WordPress 3.9
$60 for Your Website with Your Domain For One Year!
It is a great package for your own website with your own domain.
Actually, this is you will get for $60 a year ( or $96 for two years! or $7 for month by month):
- Unlimited Disk Space ( so that you can host lots of big files online)
- Unlimited Data Transfer (Traffic)
- Unlimited MySQL 5 Databases & PostgreSQL Databases for WordPress
- Up to 6 Add-on Domains ( It means you have put your other 5 domains, existing or new, on the same server and same account. The first domain is free as long as you host with them or you may pay for the domain later in case you don't want them to host any more)
- Unlimited FTP accounts, Mail Boxes, Autoresponders, Mailman Mailing Lists .... ( See details at Arvixe Site )
- Best of all you can have Softaculous Script Installer
for you to quickly install WordPress (in one minute) - Last but not least you can help support us for more useful WordPress tutorial creation because we are an affiliate of this hosting company and your order will help us a lot financially.
For your own domain and website, order this affordable hosting service today!
WordPress 3.3.2
Do it quick before the hacker. Upgrade your WordPress as soon as you can, but you need to make sure it won't break your existing plug-ins or themes.
Better try the upgrade on your sanbox first if your production site can't be down for business. Contact us if you need our professional help.
Maintenance and Security Releases
Version 3.3.2 addressed some security issues and fixed 12 bugs. For more information, see the release notes.
Version 3.3.1 addressed a security issue and fixed 15 bugs. For more information, see the release notes.
softaculous vs fantastico
For WordPress users, beginners or advanced, they love the easy installation of WordPress, which may be completed from the hosting control panel, such as cPanel offered by Arvixe.
I had been enjoying the great web application installation services from Fantastico until I found Softaculous also available from the ControlPanel.
With Arvixe Hosting service, you can find both Softaculous and Fantastico are listed side by side in the "Software/Services" section:
softaculous fantastico side by side
Both Fantastico and Softaculous are great in offering quick installation of popular software (web application) with simple steps (Fantastico makes the installation into 3 steps while Softaculous requires only one, thus few clicks.): blog, cms, shopping carts (online stores), ERP, and educational Software. Both of them create the needed database and install the software automatically for you. However, it seems that with 200 auto installation scripts (premium license that Arvixe bought), Softaculous, the new comer, is winning more users. According to a Cpanel user forum poll, over 85% of users prefer Softaculous over Fantastico.
One of their users said
Softaculous is good forWHMCS and Magento users as well as hosting provider becasue both scripts are present in Softaculous and easy to install as compared to manual installation.
The e-commerce web applications from Fantastico only include three: "CubeCart, OS Commerce, and Zencart" while with the premium Softaculous that Arvixe hosting offer, you have 13 choices, including the above three and OpenCart, PrestaShop, phpShop, Magento, WHMCS, CubeCart, AccountLab Plus, PHP Point Of Sale, TheHostingTool, TomatoCart. (Even the free version of Softaculous has 10 more scripts than the paid version of Fantastico, which has only 50 scripts.)
For WordPress users, the installation of WordPress offered by Softaculous are so up to date: see our WordPress news on WordPress 3.1.3. It makes Fantastico's WordPress installation a bit outdated. One good thing about Softaculous WordPress Installation is that it offers you different language versions of WordPress, which is not found with Fantastico.
It seems that it takes a lot more efforts for Fantastico to catch up with Softaculous. Otherwise, Fantastico may lose more and more market to Softaculous.
I was frustrated a few times when the installation is missing for some popular Web application by the Fantastico auto installer. Way to go, Softaculous!