Comments on: Working on the Site + Question about WP 2.5

By: Deranged

Deranged — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:38:48 +0000

I upgraded recently… It worked fine… I didn’t actually upgrade until the first stable came out… I have been playing around with the release candidate for a bit for a while. Plug ins mostly worked and my variant of K2 worked fine, although I am thinking of starting code straight from scratch for my next theme.

Very good performance gains and I like using the Fluency Admin interface… All in all pretty cool. New era. New ERA!

By: jpmeyer

jpmeyer — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:10:35 +0000

It might be too late now, but you did remember to update your database to UTF-8, right? Right?

http://www.seaslugteam.com/archives/2007/09/03/now-with-more-utf/

By: alafista

alafista — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:57:20 +0000

My site seemed to be working fine. The only thing which broke was popularity contest which was easily fixed with a change of code.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:42:12 +0000

I agree with Kabitzin – most of the ugrades were in the ‘backstage’ area rather than a major database table reshuffle that we saw in 2.3. TBH I’m not sure what happened to WP 2.4 so yeah, waiting for a 2.5-friendly version of K2 might be worth your while. My blog’s theme is a butchered variant on the default Kubrik one, so my changeover went quite smoothly.

By: DS

DS — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:52:26 +0000

OK, this is messed up. On my new domain the comments have all transfered over, but they don’t appear with posts but only in the admin area and the Recent Comments in the sidebar, lol!

By: DS

DS — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:48:19 +0000

OK, K2 is working. I just disable the k2 widgets in favor of WordPress’s own widgets. The new domain is working, but will require much work, but it is coming along and I will reveal it soon. But there is much to post in the interval, including my statement about Owen and the recent blog dorama. This is a post that is certain to shake the anime blogosphere to its foundations!

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:53:05 +0000

Well, this is just me, but I upgraded to 2.5 tonight and pretty much everything worked fine (though Maintenance Mode was a little wonky there for a while). I use the Sandbox theme (not familiar with K2).

If you’re doing a lot of specialized stuff, I may say wait, but if you’re just doing standard, regular WP things, I don’t see why you can’t go ahead and upgrade (just make sure to backup first!).

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:50:34 +0000

I upgraded and everything seems to be ok so far. But I don’t use widgets and plugins. If you only have a few, it’s probably ok. As long as you back up your database beforehand, I don’t see why not to try it out.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:47:02 +0000

The one good thing is that there are no table layout changes, so most plugins should still work. I believe most changes were to the admin UI and also tweaks for performance gains.

K2 does a lot of interesting stuff that is not super flexible. While the theme is very slick, it is very prone to breakage with WP updates. It’s probably worth it to wait at least a week or so for the inevitable 2.5.1 release.

By: Nekonron

Nekonron — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:37:06 +0000

I’m gonna wait for a while before updating my WP. With so many changes made, there’s bound to be plenty of bugs and security issues. So it might be best to wait for 2.5.1 before updating :P