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I probably wasn’t very sharp when I installed these plugins for Munin, but the thing is I stumbled upon several small complications and so few information about them, so I’m posting this in case anyone can find it useful.

Munin plugins

Installing Munin plugins is easy, and there’s plenty of information around. The only thing you have to keep in mind is if the plugin name end in underscore, for example memcached_, means that when you create the symbolic links in /etc/munin.d/plugins you have to put after the underscore the parameter to monitorize. Best way is take a look into the plugin source code to see what parameters are supported.

Nginx plugin for Munin

You can get it at muninexchange, very interesting site for the munin freaks by the way, in particular here. There’re two, nginx_request and nginx_status.
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As I’m in a daze with these things, I haven’t realized that the “so expected” 2.5 version of WordPress was out. And I have strong reasons to suspect ;)

The thing is today I stumble on wp-scanner, a security scanner for WordPress (which I’m not pretty sure if it works well or just works) and well, it makes me realize the oldest version of WordPress was beer2beer with the 2.1.2 -ahem-

Ok, ok, I know. It’s a little bit, ehem, outdated… But let’s face it, updating WordPress  is  was a real pain in the ass. And having new releases almost each week doesn’t help neither.

And here’s where I recall the golden rule (one of them): make people’s life easier, not harder. It’s already hard enough for you to make it harder.

So, let’s get to the point: How to upgrade WordPress painless? See what I discovered today:

Installing/Upgrading WordPress with Subversion

Awesome! Almost as easy as an apt-get upgrade! I’ve just found some problems with some plugins in the Fregocles blog, which actually uses a lot of plugins, but for the rest, pretty straightforward!

Enjoy!