Don’t upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 yet

The new version 2.3 of the blog script Wordpress has been released about 12 hours ago and lots of webmasters are starting to prepare their blogs to upgrade their version to the recent one. There is however one difficulty with this new release which will affect a lot of webmasters who try to upgrade their blog.

The new version of Wordpress introduces some elementary changes to certain functions which can very well break a few plugins that are installed on the blog in question. Mostly plugins that deal with categories are affected. One that I’m using for instance is the plugin Simple Tagging but a handful of other plugins like Ultimate Tag Warrior, Popularity Contest and Ajax Comments are affected as well.

Those plugins display error messages when opening the website which does not look great and could limit the display of the blog as well. I tried to update one of my minor blogs first which has all the plugins installed that I use at Ghacks as well and found out that the only possibility for me was to deactivate the plugin in question.

I suggest you build a local version of your blog and see if the upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 breaks the design or displays errors messages. If that is the case I would wait for plugin updates to be released before making the switch.

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