Running Wordpress on SVN

I always been pretty alarmed by new exploits coming out in php apps. Wordpress seems to have had a good track record but if anyone remembers this site was hacked before by the same guy who hacked microsoft.com the net day, although the guy must have been pretty good there had to be some exploit in this or the phpcoin I used to use on the hosting site.

Anyway, I figured I would give the SVN version a try in order to get faster security updates and just better overall “up-to-date-ness” lol. It has worked so far without any problems. I think one upgrade went kind of bad but overall there has been very few problems. The way I done this was

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/

Then in the trunk folder I moved the entire contents including all svn files to public_html, made sure my config was right. Now all I have to do is cd to www and svn update and it updates the site automatically per wordpress svn. So overall its MUCH easier to upgrade, a person could even setup a cron for this.

If you dont care to run bleeding edge software then I recommend this as a way to keep your wordpress blog updated. Although the svn stuff is beta and alpha its still pretty stable, wordpress hasa  great team of developers so there isnt many bad upgrades and you will always see security upgrades on svn first. So if you wanna keep your wordpress blog up to date, this is the best way to go.