4+ hours of work and counting
I was expecting this. I took a day off today after literally getting pee’d on by the British weather as I walked ran to work yesterday morning. This morning I felt like hell as a result with a major headache since I was drenched silly from the mad downpour.
Anyway, I woke up this morning to find that Wordpress 2.3 had been released. I was half dazed as I began to install this. I should know better than to install an upgrade to Wordpress, without doing some research to see what problems others are having. In the past Wordpress upgrades went ultra smoothly, however the team have recently begun adding features that most blogs rely on trusted plugins for. As a result those plugins get annoyed upon encountering an almost identical one and things go wrong.
I’m still not sure what has happened but my Extended Live Archives setup went totally wrong and threw a major wobbly, which resulted in me disabling the thing, then Ultimate Tag Warrior went a bit mental. The Archives page looks a bit poorly now as a result. Just when I thought I had everything under control I noticed that all my blog Categories had gone missing so now all my posts were filed under Misc! That is a colossal amount of posts that I have to now re-edit and re-assign categories to. Total time to correct all my posts = 5hrs.
For those fearing an upgrade, don’t. Most of the time Wordpress upgrades are completely flawless. It depends entirely on how complex your blog is in regards to theme template, plugins and any hacks/tweaks you’ve done. I have made heaps of tweaks to various bits on the blog so I knew it wouldn’t be a smooth ride.
testint testign
Think I’ll wait a week or so before updating after seeing the trouble you’ve had mate! I’m guessing widgets etc have messed up?
You’ll be ok mate because yours is still new and fresh. So upgrading shouldn’t be a pain for you since you aren’t relying on tag based plugins yet. I don’t use widgets either as I’m not a fan of them so I refuse to use the sidebar modules plugin or any variants. Wordpress has lately had built in support for them but I’ve disabled them because I prefer to code sidebar.php myself.
/me slaps Ayesha with a dictionary…
Where’s the blogroll? Pretty sure you use to have a link to pakmans blog here.. hmm can’t see it… is it nubbed? :-p
Someones going blind in their old age