gHacks technology news » wordpress 2.3 http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/05/upgrading-to-wordpress-23/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/05/upgrading-to-wordpress-23/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:00:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/05/upgrading-to-wordpress-23/ I finally made the switch to Wordpress 2.3 after pondering for a little while if I should upgrade this early or wait until I was sure that everything would be still working after the switch. The major problem that I saw was the new tagging system that was build into Wordpress 2.3 which was incompatible with the tagging system of the prior versions and especially with the plugin that I have been using for over a year: Simple Tagging.

After a few days the author of Simple Tagging renamed it into Simple Tags making it fully compatible to Wordpress 2.3. I still hoped that it would be easy to import the 6500 tags that I added throughout the year. I did a test upgrade on a local version of Ghacks to make sure the upgrade would be without serious consequences.

It turned out that I only needed to change the tag related function calls in the Wordpress theme folder. Everything else was working as intended. I disabled the Simple Tagging plugin, made the upgrade to Wordpress 2.3, edited the function calls in single.php and index.php, upped the Simple Tags plugin and enabled it.

Importing tags was easier than thought as well. The import function is a little bit hidden in the Manage > Import tab. Simple Tagging as well as other major tagging plugins like Ultimate Tag Warrior have their own import function there.

Not all tags were imported during the first import but the script started from where it stopped the previous run. So, with only minor issues that could be fixed in a couple of minutes I was able to upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/05/upgrading-to-wordpress-23/feed/ 3 Don’t upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 yet http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/25/dont-upgrade-to-wordpress-23-yet/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/25/dont-upgrade-to-wordpress-23-yet/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:32:34 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/25/dont-upgrade-to-wordpress-23-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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