It has been an “interesting” couple of days since our upgrade to Worpress 2.1 For now here is my recommendation, WAIT This upgrade is not ready for prime time.
Meaning
- If you like to spend hours and possibly days getting your blog back up and working then you are ready.
- If you aren’t using any plugins at all and have limited catgories and blogroll you can probably upgrade.
- Otherswise if you want to upgrade and have everything working then you have to wait.
I’m still stuggling with numerous issus and when I think I have one fixed another pops up. I did the five steps to get ready for the upgrade. There should be at least 5 more steps they conveniently skip. My guess the guys at Wordpress figure if most of it works it is ready and we can work the bugs out as we go. Again if you like tinkering with the php code, the HTML code, the CSS etc. etc. You are all set.
If you want to upgrade and get on with blogging, you need to WAIT.
Here are issues I’m still working on or have resolved.
Our theme for this blog won’t display the blogroll at all. All categories have been put together in this new version. The post categories and link categories are now categories. I mentioned this in the previous post. There is some programming in our theme that can’t handle this. I’ve tested several other themes and most do quite well with the new way the blogrolls are handled.
I’m using Ultimate Tag Warrior for tags in the posts. It has issues with 2.1. Whenever you approve a comment on a post it deletes the tags from the post. There is supposed to be a work around, I added the code for the work around, it didn’t work. The other way I’ve heard to deal with it for now.
- Open the post in edit mode
- Copy the tags
- Approve the comment
- Open the post in edit mode
- Paste the tags back in
- Save (of course)
The next issue, our RSS feeds (both blogs) were coming up with errors saying they weren’t valid. I’m using the feedburner plugin to consolidate all our feed traffic. No one could subscribe to our blogs. I spent several hours on this one doing research and trying different things. I updated the feedburner plugin and made sure the options were set. That corrected the RSS feed issue.
One of the steps I think they left out was this.
Don’t just deactivate your plugins and then activeate them one at a time after the upgrade. Go to this list of 2.1 Compatibility Plugins and if you see one there you are using, get the latest version and install it. Do this on the old version of wordpress unless it says specifically it won’t work with any version older than 2.1
If you don’t find one of your must have plugins there go to the author’s website and ask if it is 2.1 ready and if not, when there will be a version ready for 2.1
Next thing I would do before an upgrade is contact your theme author (if you can) and find out if the theme is ready for 2.1. I would also recommend you shop for a theme that is 2.1 ready that you could use as your new theme if you decided to upgrade.
Again, if you don’t have to upgrade right now, I would wait for some if this to shake out so you aren’t beating your head against the wall. I don’t feel to bad about making the upgrade since that is one of the reasons I started this blog in the first place. To test things out and see what happens.
I am sorry I upgraded the Tucson Real Estate News blog at the same time. I wish I had waited. The theme doesn’t seem to have any issues with the blogroll, but having to work around comments to keep the tags is a big pain.
That’s the latest from Lake Wordpressbegone. I’ll keep you informed as fixes or new issues arise.
Last last night I saw the new version of Wordpress was available for download and installation. I added it first to the Tucson Real Estate in The News. I followed the instruction of de-activationg all the plugins and backing up the database before placing the new files and running the upgrade.php.
WARNING. When you go back to activating your plugins; if you are using the sidebar widget make sure you activate it before you activate any other plugin associated with the sidebar widget. Simply put: Activate the sidebar widget first.
I just started at the top and was working my way down the list. Like I said it was late, I probably should have waited. . . When I activated the Active Discussions before the sidebar widget the site blew up. I couldn’t get back to the dashboard. It created an error trying to find the sidebar widget.
I went to my FTP program and renamed the active discussion widget so it couldn’t be called and I was back in. I activated the sidebar widget, changed the name back and I was in. Save your self the trouble.
Second. I’ve read today that Ultimate Tag Warrior needs to be upgraded, it appears there is or was a bug that causes tags to be deleted from post when you approve a comment. From the dashboard you will see a post at the bottom with a link to the UTW upgrade, not sure but I think there still might be an issue here.
Third. The Tiga theme seems to have an incompatibility issue with links. I upgraded the blog when the first one went smoothly, but the links in the sidebar widget just came up with an error. I changed the theme and all was well, but in Tiga I get the error. I’ll have to see if I can find out what to change, or change themes.
No, I haven’t decided to take down the blogroll. I’m still resarching the SEO link farm issue of a blogroll. I’ll have it up sometime today, either by finding the offending code (doubtful) or finding a new theme (likely).
NEW THINGS I NOTICED.
- This editor now has a tab for code or visual, that is NICE.
- The ability to group change links from one category to another is gone. NOT NICE
- You can add categories on the fly. OK I prefer a little planning
- All categories for links and post are stored in one place. CONFUSING
- This editor now lets you highlight a series of lines and click the numbered blockquote and it puts all the lines as a numbered list. I don’t think I could do that before. NEW TO ME ANYWAY
- It is supposed to be much kinder on the server with quicker load time of the blog and post. I hope so, I’m still trying to get my theme to work. NICE IF TRUE
- When you go to add a link to a post the cancel and insert buttons are switched, you might want to pay attention to this instead of just doing what you usually do. MAYBE A GOTTCHA
- The preview tab is gone, you have to scroll down to see the preview. NOT NICE
There is a very different look and feel, it will take some time to get used to some of the changes, links are now blogroll, like I said moving categories for links is one at a time. You can now checkbox and group delete links but I would rather delete one at a time and group check and change categories.
Well I guess I’ll push the publish button and see what happens. I’ll post more as I learn more. Anything you want to pass along to others here please do, I’ll see if the tags disappear when you comment.
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