Tagged and Bagged: Wordpress
I’ve moved this weblog to the Wordpress 2.2 platform. Its bleeding edge and could be buggy, but it stood up on my home server reasonably well. Let me know if it feels different. I may upload the files about once a week, so there is a chance of breakage. If nothing changes, that’s good. If its faster, that’s good. Feedback welcome.
I’ve also upgraded Bad Behavior to 2.0.10. Email me if you can’t comment or whatever.
This would be a test comment after the “upgrade” Will it succeed?
It5 did. No issues so far.
So you’re playing with another BETA version ey’
Kewel.
Beta! Betas are for wussies! This is Bleeding Edge Alpha!!!!!
I downloaded the new 2. whatever after my nightmare with THAT PLACE and installed it on the new server. Well. After I uploaded my backup it had taken my links and put them into every single category for links that I had so I had links repeated all over the place. I couldn’t see anywhere in the php to change that. The problem seemed to be that in the older 2.0 they had a php for linkcategories and in the new one it was just blogroll. I ended up deleting all the 2. whatever files and dl’d an archived version of 2.0 and redid the database and everything was as it should be but then after a few times of loading the site I got a message that my database was out of date and it had to be upgraded. All this involved was the click of a button and everything is still as I had it so I don’t know what it upgraded too- lol hold on I’ll look! Apparently nothing because it’s still showing me version 2.0 Wordpress on the dashboard. Whatever the deal is the new release doesn’t play well with some themes. Not the one we’re using anyhow. I did try several different and about the only one I got it to work with and not repeat links everywhere was Kubrick. That was when I said to hell with it and uninstalled and put the archival copy on….
Diane,
A lot of people have had a similar experience with the change in the links and category structure. what happened with your database is that the tables were merged, so when you changed back to 2.0.x, your database was not the same structure as 2.1.x. 2.0.x is going to be maintained for quite a while. If you want some of the new features (like a static front page, or some of the newer, faster cacheing), then 2.1 is for you. If not, then this feature upgrade is not necessary. There are long term plans for both.
The issue that you have with the links and blogroll are somewhat addressed in 2.2. Its more clear and there are a few easier ways to manage links, posts, pages, and categories.
There is also a fix for your problem. The new php call is the wp_bookmarks tag. I haven’t changed my get_links yet, but I will, once I figure out the arguments for category IDs (see how I’ve got mine broken up a bit?)
I think I’ll just live with it the way I have it for now. LOL I’m sick of fooling around with things after that last horrendous week.
Hey, Corey, let us know if any nastiness pops up on your end. I like having a head start when the stable version comes out.
I will. I’m in the process of leaning how to script a theme (and I know nothing of css and xhtml - or php for that matter) and its going to be a tad complex in a few parts of its design. If I get it finished, then I’ll be running it probably here. That should be a good test of UI. All my plug ins work as expected. In fact, the uploader for Photopress which was broken for several months (I’ve been uploading with ftp and adding with the manage tool) and now works again. So, something behind the scenes has been changed. I’ll try to write a preview review soon with screenshots.