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Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Mathew Browne — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:51:59 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Everton — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:06:58 -0000

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!

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Amrit Hallan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:10:14 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Shashank — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:26:16 -0000

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

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Brown Baron — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:55:31 -0000

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

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Jack — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:12:22 -0000

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

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Mike — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:37:23 -0000

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

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Mike — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:32:36 -0000

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

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Joseph Plazo — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:05:08 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Online Money — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:18:35 -0000

I have not tried it. I will check it.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Harishankar — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:23:35 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Tomaz — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:01:48 -0000

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...

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Dave Starr — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:04:56 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Micah — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:13:44 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

LwEEs — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:47:55 -0000

I had no problems, check out my post about my experience upgrading at http://www.lwees.com/2007/0.... ;-)

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Karmadude — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:47:01 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Joseph Plazo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:50:49 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

Everton — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:35:56 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

pablogeo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:34:30 -0000

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.

Re: Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

knupNET — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:28:20 -0000

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.