Aug 27 2008
Upgraded The Web Site To Wordpress 2.6.1
When WordPress released version 2.6.0, I decided to wait until the next major patch before I updated our web site. I never trust the big releases; better to wait until the inevitable bugs and security flaws are patched up first. The process was relatively easy: back up your database (got a plugin that does that with one click), turn off your plugins (again, one click since 2.5.0), copy over the new files via Filezilla, update database schema (one more click), then restart the plugins. However, the upgrade was not entirely without problems.
We have been using Gallery2 to store photos on our web site for years. WPG2, the WordPress plugin that allows us to embed Gallery2 on our site, never wants to work properly after an upgrade. The “Gallery” link always moves when upgrading WordPress, but that is easily fixed. The big problem is that image thumbnails won’t build properly now (it’s hit or miss). I probably should have waited to update WPG2 from 3.0.5 to 3.0.7 until I was happy with the WordPress update.
Thankfully, that’s the only plugin that gave me trouble. I was worried about my many WordPress extensions not working after the update, but they all started right up, one after another. A lot of people who jumped on version 2.6.0 as soon as it came out were disappointed when their plugins didn’t work right away. Plugin authors, not WordPress developers, are responsible for testing the plugins against the latest version of WordPress. I guess I got lucky, for the most part.
Now that I’ve started using the new version of WordPress, I’m seeing all sorts of new features. For example, WordPress now saves previous edits of posts, like a built-in concurrent versioning system. You can return to older versions easily. Images in posts are now handled differently too, allowing for captions and image boxes. Unfortunately, my WordPress theme can’t display these properly yet. I’m going to have to learn how to use these new features to take full advantage of the new update.
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