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WordPress 2.5 again
For anyone who’s been wanting to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 but have been a little apprehensive about the upgrade process, good news! 2.5 is now available through Fantastico - so upgrading is just a click away. Of course, you should make sure you’ve backed up all your work before going ahead with any upgrade, just in case. Although, if I remember correctly, Fantastico does a back up before loading the new version (please check this for yourself, though; don’t just take my word for it).
If you’re feeling a little more adventurous and feel that you want to tackle the upgrade process manually, check out the WordPress Upgrade instructions. Again, make sure you’ve got a working back up before you start, and read the instructions twice. But it’s not really that difficult.
While we’re talking about 2.5, it seems that the multi-user installation over at WordPress.com has been upgraded to the new version - but not without some teething problems on behalf of the users it would seem. Since moving over to self-hosted, I haven’t spent any time at WordPress.com but from what I understand the upgrade was done over a weekend and without warning; possibly not the best way to do it. It seems that the new look dashboard is not winning a great deal of friends either.
I’ve yet to move The New Wolfs Howl over to 2.5 (still waiting on a couple of plug-ins to be updated) but from the playing about I’ve done on the local installation I’m still not sure about it. And with version 2.5.1 due to be released in the first week of May (with fixes for the bugs that were known about but not fixed when 2.5 was released), I’m thinking I’ll wait a while.
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As I only run six plugins, none of which are life threatening, I already made the jump to 2.5 on both my blogs.
I’ve had no problems so far. I see from various forums and blogs (Dougal’s through the dashboard for example) that the new 2.5 backend is almost universally hated.
I think WP is going to lose some face over this upgrade. Dougal’s post also mentioned that (currently) 2.3.3 is safe and secure so there’s no problem with waiting.
@Collin:
Most of the plug-ins I use are fine, but Ozh’s Absolute Comments wasn’t available until a day or so ago, and Popularity Contest triggers a fatal error so can’t be activated. But I have now gone and updated.
The admin side isn’t so bad if you go for the classic colour scheme (the orange is really horrible), and is no more illogical than the old one was.
From what I’ve read on other blogs, 2.3 isn’t a secure install anymore and 2.5 fixes a vulnerability.
I’m still living with the orange colour scheme at the moment, I might change it later on to see which I prefer.
According to comments on Dougal’s post the 2.3 wasn’t secure but the 2.3.3 was. It’s not important to me now, I’m running 2.5!
How many plugins are you running?
Bet it’s not as many as some - one guy admits to running 41, his blog must be damned slow.
New post on the same subject over at mine btw.
[Wolfie edit: I've removed a couple of smileys from this comment, because for some reason they really screw up the way the comment is displayed]
@Collin:
14 at the moment - with one of them currently disabled.