I’ve written (with a co-author, no less), an entire book about a previous version of WordPress. I’ve also written three complete video courses, each of which are several hours long, about various versions of WordPress. And I’ve written numerous articles for publications about WordPress. I was adequately compensated for all this work. After all, this is what I do for a living.

It’s very difficult to earn a living as a writer if I spend all my time writing articles on request for free in this blog when I could be writing books, articles, and video courses for publishers who pay me to to so.

The content in this blog is in support of the books, articles, and courses I write about for pay elsewhere. If I’m not paid to write about WordPress, it’s not very likely that I’ll write much about it here. Sorry, but I’m sure you understand the importance of paying my mortgage and buying food.

I still haven’t upgraded yet. I find it rather difficult to make sense of the technical jargon that accompanies new releases or at less make sense of them in a meaningful way.

Luckily, I had some articles saved, but loads were gone, and Google on cached a portion of each article.

So, until I hear more, I don’t think I will upgrade. :(

But seriously – you end with the mantra “As usual, you should back up your WordPress database before upgrading.” but do you know a way of verifying that those backups are any good. How can you test them?

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