January 8, 2006

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.0!

On a whim, I decided to upgrade the publishing system of TheHopsReview.com to a freshly released version of Wordpress 2.0. It really turned out to be a potential nightmare.

All I can say to anyone wanting to do this procedure, is to be sure you backup everything prior to upgrading (like it says in the instructions.) Especially, if you have custom themes in place, as it seems the install wipes them out. When I first went to the homepage, only a blank screen appeared, because our theme had disappeared. OH NO! I just about had a stroke. But, In the end, all I had to do was copy back our custom themes and javascript files and the crisis was averted…

How does it work? The new version of Wordpress is spectacular. The enhanced posting mechinism (WYSIWYG) is certainly welcome. And the AJAX functionality is a nice bonus.

CHEERS!

* Filed by Kevin at 8:57 pm under Site Related

 

2 Responses to “Upgraded to Wordpress 2.0!”

  1. Jared
    January 8th, 2006 | 9:45 pm

    I installed 2.0 locally on my mac and it looks really nice. Have you used WP Tiger Administration? They updated that for 2.0 but I have not installed it yet. I use it on my old wordpress install on jinxy.net and its really nice.

    http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/

  2. Kevin
    January 9th, 2006 | 6:30 am

    Dang, I notice that the comment counter for each post, doesn’t appear to be working on the homepage.

    Argh, I’ll have to take a look at that.

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