[wp-testers] Missing "?>" tag in "wp-config.sample.php"

Kirk M kmb42vt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 13 19:56:04 UTC 2010


Whoops, didn't mean to start something. :-)

Of course, I started way back when manual installing/upgrading was the 
only way to get things done so old habits die hard and all that.

On 04/13/2010 03:12 PM, Andrew Nacin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kirk M<kmb42vt at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> it's up to the website owner to manually update their "wp-config.php" file
>> accordingly.
>
>
> I'd rather not say it like that, though, because then you get questions like
> "How do we know when to manually update?" :-)
>
> We've added new default constants such as keys and salts (there are eight in
> all) over the years, so that's one thing to check. (We also highly
> publicized those when we released the versions they were first included in.)
>
> Beyond that, there have been no real changes. It's still just the DB
> constants, language, table prefix, and the conditional ABSPATH define (which
> is actually only there for backwards compatibility).
>
> In 3.0, we also added a reference to WP_DEBUG, simply to raise its profile
> among plugin developers. There are also scores of other optional constants
> that control other deeper aspects of WordPress such as moving the
> wp-content, uploads or plugins directories or various cookie constants.
>
> If you installed your blog before 2.6 or so, I'd check to see if you ever
> added the salt and key constants. Otherwise, just upgrade everything around
> it.
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