For those of you using Wordpress.com as an additional blog to Active Rain, you may have noticed a warning asking you to update your blog to the latest version to fix a security issue that Wordpress found.

Before you update, there are a few precautions that you should take. First, update your database. Worst case senario is that you mess up your blog so badly that you have to reinstall it. Ok, I doubt that will happen, but just suppose it does. You don't want to lose your comments and posts. Here's how: http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

Next, deactivate all your plug-ins in case one of them is not compatible with the new version of Wordpress. Once the update is complete, activate one plug-in at a time and check to make sure everything is working before you activate the next one. This is the only way to isolate a problem plug-in. If your plug-in also asks for an update, do it the same way, one plug-in at a time.

There is another update coming out March 10th, so watch for it.