WP 2.9 – Oh Woe..!

Well, here we go again.  WordPress 2.9 released in the last few days is already causing a storm of misery for unwary users with new threads opening on the WordPress support forums by the minute.

Regrettably, the aspirations of the WordPress developers seems to have got beyond their capability to manage the development process again.  The number of known bugs contained in each new release of WordPress grows each time and with the growing popularity of the WordPress platform this affects more and more users on each occasion.

As a Semiologic user I have the benefit of some guidance on the subject and Denis has just posted some advice and some free fixes for the three most common issues .

As you will see from Denis' post, his advice is always to let the new version run intil at least after the first fix, i.e. 2.9.1 before upgrading your blog.  Of course, you should always make sure you take a full back up before upgrading and then see if everything runs OK.  Deactivate all your plugins before the upgrade and then activate them one at a time.  But be ready to go back and restore the whole site when something goes wrong.

It is often quicker (and therefore cheaper!) just to Restore from your back up, report the problem and wait for a fix before attempting the upgrade again than to spend time and money trying to fix something that the techies have not yet got a handle on.

Semiologic users already have a Version Checker plugin that also removes the WP 'nag' to upgrade from their dashboard until WP 2.9.1 is issued and the package of plugins is already aligned to all the changes planned for WordPress. One of the best reasons I can think of for buying a 'paid for' package with WordPress.  At the end of the day, you always get what you pay for.

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