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Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Tolana — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:06:03 -0000

I must confess that I'm surprised to hear about problems with 2.1. I host at Dreamhost and they have one-click installations of Wordpress. When new versions of WP come out, all I have to do is click a link to upgrade my current installations. The only "problem" I have ever encountered is my custom wp-login.php page getting overwritten.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

wildcard — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:58:16 -0000

i just upgraded and all the 'read more' links in post where i used the noteaser tag show up as ->
this is really bugging me. anyone else got the same problem?

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Mat — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:32:22 -0000

get_links is also broken. That is a serious pisser.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Andrew Grant-Adamson — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:28:39 -0000

Upgrading was not straightforward for me, but I don't understand php. what is bugging me is that on the post screen the visual editor is now working but I don't get the "preview" and "edit" links which allowed me to easily switch views without scrolling. Not understanding what is going on I don't know whether this is a design change or another thing that has not worked quite as it should.

But none of this means I don't appreciate all the work that has been done and the stability and quality of WordPress.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Babi — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:02:03 -0000

Thanks for the the thing about the visual editor!

Anyone know anything about the content uploader or something like that? Or is that just the new version of how to select how your photos will be inserted and linked?

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Tim McCormack — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:42:42 -0000

There could have been a browser-cache issue with the rich text editor.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Doug — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:21:47 -0000

Great Post! FYI. Your link to PodPress is broken.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Tom Edwards — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:27:59 -0000

Aaargh! Tonight it not my night.

http://wordpress.org/suppor...

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Tom Edwards — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:26:10 -0000

Stripped from my comment, it seems. :p

http://wordpress.org/suppor...

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:50:39 -0000

Where is the solution, Tom ;-)

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Bill — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:54:54 -0000

Another bug has to do with what I think is the Autosave. I've found that if I enter text into the text editor before adding a title, I'm unable to save/publish the post.

When I try it confirms if I'd like to publish the post ""

Whether I say yes or no, it doesn't save/publish and my content disappears.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Tom Edwards — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:40:28 -0000

There are problems with rogue paragraph openers, too. Here's the solution.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Leoni — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:51:15 -0000

You know, I felt guilty about not upgrading to 2.0.6 and 2.0.7 (after seeing what a process would be involved) so I bit the bullet and upgraded to 2.1 yesterday.

I guess I'm lucky because nothing actually broke (except the LJ Crosspost plugin which I managed to fix myself despite not knowing anything about php!) ... but now all kinds of weird things happen in my admin panel when using Firefox - I get strange little empty boxes that won't close and follow my mouse around (meant to allow me to insert an image in a post?) and the "send to editor" button does nothing at all.

Luckily it all works in IE 7, but what a shock to have to downgrade my browsing experience like that! Anyway, I'm patiently awaiting 2.1.1 that will hopefully fix all this :-)

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Joe — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:29:19 -0000

Hey Aaron,
Here's one for ya. (This is after the upgrade.)
I'm using IE7 and my main landing page /WP gives me an IE error "can't access page"
Individual pages will come up just fine, but not the Main Page.
My readers using IE are having the same problem, but those using FireFox are not.
Any ideas?
Joe

(I have 3 other WP blogs that were upgraded and are NOT having the problem in IE).
J.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Martin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:28:20 -0000

In you are using the Tiga theme, I have a work around for the links sidebar widget not showing up.

Links Fix

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:58:14 -0000

Technically you are correct. Let me point out as well that folks using get_links_list() may be passing category IDs and those ID's are bound to change witht he bookmark/list merging.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Michael — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:16:33 -0000

get_links_list is not deprecated, it's not in /wp-includes/deprecated.php, by contrast, it's still in /wp-includes/bookmark-template.php

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

justelise — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:01:18 -0000

After first trying an upgrade which caused a lot of issues than implementing a clean install which had a bunch of issues of its own I've come to the conclusion that WP 2.1 was not ready for prime time. I suddenly feel like a MS Vista user.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Tom — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:59:57 -0000

Here I was thinking I would try 2.1...and then I came across this post. Perhaps I will be a good little notice user and wait for more people to populate forums with questions and answers to problems before I go and try being a trail blazer :)

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Bill — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:55:52 -0000

One of my frustrations with the upgrade was the implementation of full feed and the MORE tag. Now if you use more, your feed will be truncated at that point - with no notification in the feed that there is more content at the site.

I don't use MORE to tease content, but to control the appearance on my front page. Now I'm left with a mix of full and truncated feeds.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:42:24 -0000

Thank you, sir! ;-)

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:42:07 -0000

Sure thing, Ajay. You're pretty savvy so you shouldn't have many problems.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:41:33 -0000

Interesting. Had not seen that yet. Wonder if you have any plugins that rely on permalink API that might have gotten bitten in the upgrade.

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Lloyd — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:33:01 -0000

Invaluable resource!

Re: WordPress 2.1 Gotchas

Ajay — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:26:13 -0000

Thanks for the update on this Aaron. As a developer there is indeed a lot more reading work to be done on WP2.1

I'm still ponderin whether to upgrade a not. May just do it on one of my blogs. Though, not sure which!