This evening I embarked on a major journey to upgrade the WordPress installation that One Man’s Blog was running on to the latest version. This was a very big deal because it involved skipping two entire releases. We went from version 2.0 to 2.3 (never even touched 2.1 or 2.2).
I’m pleased to report that except for one brief scare in the middle, the upgrade went fairly smoothly.
Most of you won’t notice anything different, except that hopefully you will see a slight increase in the speed that pages load. But on the back end there are a number of features that make my life as a blogger much easier.
Now that we’re up to the latest release, there are a number of new plugins and features that I want to try to exploit going forward. One of which those of you that comment will notice immediately!
During the upgrade, I took the opportunity to enable comment editing for a limited period of time by comment authors. So, if you leave a comment and then notice you misspelled a word or something, you can edit it for up to 15 minutes before it becomes a matter of record! Hope you guys enjoy that little treat.
So, over the next couple of days if you notice something doesn’t quite seem right please let me know so I can get it fixed. And if you have any suggestions for how to make things better around here then by all means please share them!
Yes. It can be difficult to keep up with these changes, especially if you are developing sites for others. I suggest two “rules” with regards to that:
People should understand that just because they have you do development work does not mean they own your future life. If they want you to do perpetual updates, put them on a monthly “maintenance program” and charge them a flat monthly rate.
Take care,
John
Seems like WordPress & FireFox are going hand in hand with the pace of updates. But unlike FireFox, we have to make our blogs compatible to all those changes in WP. As a non-coder, it’s difficult to ask someone [& pay] for all these version upgrades. Wish there was a simpler way.
I just noticed the edit countdown timer when commenting on another topic, that is really cool – good job.
Also noticed that comments are added on the top now and oldest in the bottom, that is new too.
Kim:)
Wow – I’m impressed that you were skipping from 2.0 – 2.3 as well. I guess impressed isn’t the right word. It just makes me feel better. Ha! One of my oldest blogs is sitting on 2.0.3 and I’m dying to upgrade it, but, very, very skeered! LOL!
Perhaps today you’ve given me courage! :D
looks fine for me, and I think faster as I have a quite slow connection in my jungle-house on the othwe side of the world…
cheers
Rhoody
I have a blog I need to upgrade too, I have been pushing it back for quite a while. Just too much to do.
Kim:)
Hmm I guess that means I better bite the bullet and upgrade too … I’m only 2 releases behind, but still … not good ;)
Anyway, everything seems to look good John! Especially that new Email subscription box :D
seems like a smooth transition from my side :)
edit: I love the editing timer! Couldn’t resist not clicking it :P
i see you’ve changed the sidebar look. yeah less cluttered now
so far on my end, no errors popped out
i’ve hold out on v2.3 is because some of the plugins i used it not compatible
try exploiting the new tag function in v2.3 john
Hey looks like the update went well (everything looks pretty similar so that’s good). I do notice that there are some changes, though. I see that the “Meet the Commenters” settings must have been changed (since everyone’s counts dropped), you might have changed the sidebar to be widgetized (which would make sense since I don’t even know if that was in 2.0), and the sidebar actually seems shorter (probably helped by the previous change and the move from lists to drop downs).
What do you like about 2.3? (I’m still working on a theme change for myself before I move to it.)
Update: are you also listing comments as most recent at the top?
looks good to me :)
Every time I update a WP site, it always messed the fonts up, adds little ”” and weird characters.