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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Rather than trawling endlessly through the many free themes that are available – but each of which has it's own limitations, this way gives you a powerful and very flexible theme from Semiologic from the beginning.

This theme is intended to be used with the Semiologic Pro package but the theme part is actually absolutely free.  So you can take advantage of all that functionality without commiting to the full package until you are convinced that this is the way to go.

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I've used one in this post just to show the effect and have used it to add a Resource box.  The value in this situation is that an Inline widget is included in the content and is therefore published with your RSS feed – including that valuable inbound link!

You can find out about  installing an inline widget in your Wordpress blog on the Inline widget lesson page.

Added later: of course, I should add this widget is a Semiologic premium widget available to me because this blog is built with Semiologic.  It just goes to show how these time saving features become the norm when you get used to them.   But it's also another example of why investing in the right tools pays off big time.

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