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Rule No1. Stay Away From Wordpress 2.5

April 8th, 2008 Posted in Rants

Right, where to start… If, like me, you can’t stand the annoying prompts and orange-ish notification bar in the admin panel, you will probably end up succumbing to the messages and installing the latest offereing from the… people… at wordpress. Enter, Wordpress 2.5.

Supposed to fix a lot of things, supposed to make doing a lot of things easier, supposed to… well, work for a start. Upgrading was painless, all the files went up, the details changed in the sample config file, went to see what difference it made, ah, ok, well before i started I had a working blog, now I have a page with an error on it, nice, no matter what way i tried to make the error message look cool, it just couldn’t beat my _actual_ content </sarcasm>

Now, I’ve heard a lot of things about wordpress support, the forums are usually held in quite high regard, so i whizzed on over, typed in the error message that I got and went to the first thread i found… This one here. Needless to say I was less than impressed user “selfobliged” should feel ashamed.

After about 30mins of testing different things, following leads on certain error messages, changing bits in the config file, making sure every file had been uploaded properly, I gave up, and right now I’m still sitting on WordPress 2.3.2

I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have all my plugins work, have a working blog, and deal with the annoying alerts than have no blog at all.

This is a public message of thanks to the developers at wordpress, good job, no i mean it, it takes dedication to make a complete load of crap last so long in development, seriously, kudos on that one.

Bunch of ass hats… :|

  1. 8 Responses to “Rule No1. Stay Away From Wordpress 2.5”

  2. By Mike on Apr 8, 2008

    Whoa whoa whoa. I upgraded to 2.5 in about 2 minutes, all my plug-ins worked and I had no problems. I know of many people who had the same experience. Unless you’ve got a hosted wordpress.com blog, no two WP sites are alike, YMMV.

    By all means feel free to post about your problems and voice your anger but how about you post what error you are getting and what steps you have taken to remedy it.

    By the looks of it you need to do a clean install.

  3. By admin on Apr 8, 2008

    Hi Mike, the error I recieved was “Fatal error: Call to undefined function require_wp_db() in /home/www/…/wp-settings.php on line 204″

    I know all sites are different and yes I probably over-reacted a tiny bit, but hey, when I follow instructions and they just don’t work, it sort of annoys me.

    A clean install would do the trick, as long as there are no database changes in 2.5, could you advise on that?

    Thanks for your comment!

  4. By Mike on Apr 9, 2008

    I’m not too sure about the changes between 2.3 and 2.5 regarding the db. Did you try upgrading manually? I always use the nifty plug-in ‘Wordpress Automatic Upgrade’

    http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html

    “Here is what WPAU does;

    1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
    2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
    3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
    4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
    5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
    6. Upgrades wordpress files.
    7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
    8. Re-activates the plugins.”

    Works well. Have a go with that before resorting to a ‘from scratch’ install. Good luck!

  5. By admin on Apr 9, 2008

    Hello again mike, thanks for your reply. Uploading that plug-in as I type this now, I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes. Thanks for the suggestion by the way!

    I was sort of wondering why there wasnt an automated tool for upgrading WP versions already in WP itself by default, I guess thats for a future release? Who knows

    Thanks again

    *UPDATE* – well it installed, but it broke my twitter plugin, the backend looks nicer… and as far as I can tell, the rest of my plugins still work (i think)

  6. By Mike on Apr 9, 2008

    Twitter for Wordpress should work with 2.5

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-for-wordpress/#post-2362

    One of the new features I like about 2.5 is the auto-update on plug-ins. Very handy, I don’t think I ever bothered to update a plug-in manually. Also auto-update on WordPress would be a very nice feature.

  7. By admin on Apr 9, 2008

    Twitter For Wordpress is what I’m running right now, I must have chosen the only twitter plug-in that wasn’t 2.5 compatible!

    Thanks for your help on this, although I do think just uploading the wordpress files and following upgrade instructions should have worked… PErhaps it’s to do with ym server config, perhaps something else, but still, it needed a third party plugin to be able to get it to upgrade soundly.

    Oh and to confirm, yes, upon upgrading to 2.5 there were database issues, new fields had to be added, this was taken care of by the automatic upgrade.php file located in /wp-admin/upgrade.php

  8. By Cialismi on Jul 16, 2008

    Not Bad

  9. By Stuey on Jul 29, 2008

    Nice post, you got some good points there – thank you.

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