My WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Adventure
I just made the switch to the newly released version 2.5 of WordPress!
It’s totally different then the old one and I’m loving it so far. Especially the one click plugin upgrades and the fixed wysiwyg editor.
Only thing that went wrong as you can probably tell is that all of my uploaded files are gone! When I uploaded the files the entire folders of information got overwritten so I have to re-make all of my screenshots. So that’s the project of the day for tomorrow, getting all my images working again.
Just a perfect reason to make a back-up before you install it. It even said that, but of course I thought I was just a pro in the game and didn’t need to. LOL
Well I hope the installation goes alright for you. It would be cool to hear about other people’s favorite parts about the new version, so if you have any just shoot me a comment!
-Nick
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April 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Hi Nick,
My upgrade went very smoothly - no problems there.
However, while there are some good things about 2.5 one real step backwards is the way widgets are managed.
I changed a few things around the other day and the only way I could find to move widgets between sidebars was to ‘Remove’ them, ‘Save the Changes’, ‘Show’ the new sidebar, ‘Add’ them and ‘Save Changes’ again.
Cumbersome or what..!?
I moved tags and categories widgets, so no problem with the process but I don’t know what ‘Removing’ a widget would do to the contents of a Text widget.
So if you want to move a text widget you should definitely take a copy of its contents first!
Cheers,
Martin.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Nice glad to hear!
Sorry for taking so long to approve this comment.
Yea i’ve noticed a couple things that changed for the worse, little things here and there. Haven’t noticed the widgets though because I only have one sidebar currently. That’s something that i’ll keep in mind though because i’m planning on having two columns eventually.
Sounds like a pain in the ass!
Nick