WordPress 2.0

It’s a windy night in Portsmouth and I can’t sleep, so I’ll be updating the blog to WordPress 2.0 during the next few hours. If the theme changes, or if things break, that’s expected during the upgrade process.

Update Stages.

Upload new WP files. OK.
Update the database. OK.
Fix the theme if necessary (at least one sidebar fix) OK.
Look for breakage.
1. Cacheing: OK
2. Paged Comments: OK – thanks Keyvan!
3. XHTML validity: OK
4. Comments need re-formatting: OK
Fix any of my plugins that are not yet compatible.
1. AutoMeta: OK.
  The latest version of AutoMeta works – there is (however) a bug in wordpress 2.0 which breaks it (the target release for the bugfix is 2.0.1) – in the mean you can update your functions.php to get it working.

2 Comments

justin says:

24/01/2006 at 20:49

Hi Rich..

I have problems viewing the images on the front page. Dont think it is
it is due to recent change to V2.0, I am viewing through IE so
that may be part of the problem…. Take care Justin (joggers)

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Rich says:

24/01/2006 at 21:24

Yeah, it’s not WP-2.0 related, it’s IE6 related, but with IE7 just around the corner I’m not going to spend the hours necessary to fix it. We have to put this one down to Microsoft’s shameful disregard for proper compliance to publicly adopted standards, and hope they get it right with IE7.

Anyway, use Firefox, it’s not perfect (because nothing can be perfect), but it’s a huge leap forward from IE and there are hundreds of people working on making it better, every single day, whereas IE has stagnated and collected several scary security holes over the last several years.

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