DISQUS

knupNET · 2 years ago

I had a few issues with the upgrade but most were due to incompatible plugins. Google Sitemaps plugin broke it and a few other smaller ones. I needed to upgrade several plugins as well. A little more painful than the normal upgrade but not to bad. I did not try tagging though actually.

Pablo · 2 years ago

I did the same as you, update a testblog first and my categories disappeared, i can't imagine if i do it to my blog.

Everton · 2 years ago

thx Pablo - I'm definitely going to wait. I use Simple Tagging a hell of a lot, and it's so good I'm not going to upgrade.

Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago

I ran the upgrade on my lowest traffic blog hosted at godaddy.com and guess what? First the categories disappeared. Then weird characters started showing up all over the posts.

Worse, the wp-admin/upgrade.php command didn't work. I just get error messages. This signifies database update failure.

After trying the 5th time, the blog simply stopped loading. I get a white screen.

Darn.

Googling the web for 2.3 upgrade failures led to quite a number of seething folks. Turns out that using themes other than the standard WP offering causes a flop. Try upgrading using the basic theme.

Karmadude · 2 years ago

I haven't had any issues upgrading some of my simple blogs to 2.3, however some of the changes they have made to categories affects my main blog since I use category hierarchies for blogroll.

Luis · 2 years ago

I had no problems, check out my post about my experience upgrading at http://www.lwees.com/2007/09/26/lweescom-upgrad.... ;-)

Micah · 2 years ago

I'm not going to upgrade yet either. I am so used to the version I have, and don't feel like changing at the moment. I do like the security updates and that sort of thing though.

Dave Starr · 2 years ago

Sad that the crew at Wordpress didn't follow the "If it's not broke, don't fix it" credo. They finally got a really excellent product working with 2.2 and then tried to force 2.3 out the door to actually provide no further functioanlity ... just tryig to copy what plug-in providers already offered.

It'sa like a car company issuing a new model with no imporvements to the engine but, instead tires made by the cra manufacturer and not by a company that knows tires. people like to be able to choose what's best for them ... not have a one-size fits all solution forced on them. At this point in time I am skipping 2.3 completely ... subject, of course to how Automatics cleans up the mess they have made ofwhat _was_ the hands-down best blogging platform.

OTOH this might just be the final catalyst that pusshes me over the bridge to Drupal, which is less suitable for an 'every day" blog but head and shoulders better in the database design/data protection space.

Tomaz · 2 years ago

Yes, the the "Related posts" is not working for me anymore and I occassionally get an error message when I approve or add a comment.

And I was cautious too. ;) I upgraded my tennis blog first and I won't upgrade my Freedom Ideas blog yet.

Maybe in the next update...

Harishankar · 2 years ago

I see a lot of other complains in other forums as well, about 2.3 and better to stay with 2.2 untill we have another fix.

Online Money · 2 years ago

I have not tried it. I will check it.

Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago

This update is causing me nightmares! I tried a very cautious upgrade of another blog at my job board. It totally crashed the database, this time hosted at doteasy.com

I'm leaving my other 8 blogs at 2.2 until this beta-like 2.3 gets stable.

Mike · 2 years ago

I had a couple of problems too , but it didn't took more than half an hour to solve them.

Mainly, there were plugins problems. I had to update most of my plugins to the latest versions. And there were also problems related to tagging, having to modify a couple of lines in the code to display them properly with the new system.

I do have one plugin that still does not work, the one i use for my Sitemap page. It's called DD sitemap generator. Anyone have any idea on how can i fix it? Thanks

Mike · 2 years ago

It's weird what i read here. Nothing happened to my categories, they were displayed like they had to. Did you use the category to tag converter from Manage > Categories ? In case you did, that might be the problem.

I usually don't upgrade my blog with the latest version of wordpress, but wait for two versions to be released and the use the second one most recent. This way you should not have any problems. With 2.3 i was a little hasty i admit, but things turned out to be just fine

Jack · 2 years ago

Yes. I did have it. but now it's fixed. read it here

Brown Baron · 2 years ago

I was just about to test it locally but it seems to have major issues. I think I'll wait a bit more.

Shashank · 2 years ago

i will prefer waiting a bit more a lot of people facing probs in upgrading

Amrit Hallan · 2 years ago

My blog stopped loading completely when I upgraded to WP 2.3 and when I downgraded to the previous version my categories were gone too. I had to manually restore them.

Ajay · 2 years ago

A lot has changed in WP2.3 and IMO,this is one of the most problematic upgrades ever.

You will need to disable all your plugins and pray that you theme is 2.3 compliant before making the jump.

I've lost out on a few plugins... and I really hope the tagging functionality improves quick!

Everton · 2 years ago

There just isn't enough new functionality in 2.3 for me to justify going through the expected pain of upgrading. It's not often that I'm not one of the first to upgrade!

Mathew Browne · 2 years ago

I had a couple of problems - firstly, the XML sitemap generator was causing problems, but if you upgrade to the latest version the problem is solved. The second problem was an issue with the post editing page, which I remedied by... well, actually I didn't. I only post posts, so it's not that big a deal.