New WordPress Version Out
Just a quick post to say that WordPress 2.1 (Ella) is out now. This site is still running on WP 1.5 and I don't think I will bother upgrading as it does all I need it to. However, I have just done a test install of WP 2.1 to use as a base for work projects and it went as smoothly as you like. The Admin section has lots of nice features and on my 1&1 hosting it seems to work a treat.
My favourite new feature is the ability to set a page as your homepage (as opposed to your post list). This takes WordPress even closer to being a CMS.
Is there an automatic upgrade method? I did a site to 2.0.7 or something last week and just did a manual job, making sure I left the Themes directory alone, was very quick, just wondering if there was an even easier way?
I liek wordpress.. until you want to change how it works a bit then it becomes a nightmare… I used it as a CMS for a site, and it worked ok, but the WYSIWYG editor still dumps lots of code that you don’t need or changes what you do enter, when you don’t want it to. (even if you’re using the HTML editor within it)
January 26th, 2007 at 12:14 pmThe upgrade is indeed still manual, but it’s very easy. I’ve noticed a couple of issues - the links to external sites have fallen off my sidebar and the Tiger Style Admin plug-in has a couple of issues, but it they shouldn’t be too tricky to fix.
The WYSIWYG editor is apparently vastly improved over previous versions. I prefer to get my hands dirty and use the code view though
January 26th, 2007 at 12:34 pmOh, erm… http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
January 26th, 2007 at 1:01 pmYeah, if you have fettled Wordpress at all, things might not work properly with the new version either. In particular, if you filter stuff using post_status, expecting pages to have a status of Static, that doesn’t work anymore. You now need to search on post_type.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:57 pmI preferred version 1.x for entries, the one in 2.0 is a PITA. It tries to be clever and just ****s up what I’m trying to do, even when using the code view.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:24 pmIn your profile you can set it so that you don’t see the WYSIWYG bit at all - it’s just a check box.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:29 pmSimon - 2.1 is supposed to be a lot better at not doing that. I haven’t actually tried that though
January 26th, 2007 at 4:12 pmI have upgraded to 2.1
January 26th, 2007 at 5:48 pmAs expected, it has killed my gallery integration
Upgrade and be either dammed or hacked. There’s a reason that most CMS’s come out with upgrades and whilst there are improvements, a lot revolve around security. If you’re cunning and have something like Subversion installed then you can create yourself a nice little patch file for your own version of WP and then deploy that. Nice.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:29 am