As previously mentioned, I upgraded the test blog brother of this site to WP 2.5 recently, and other than a few small issues all went well. I therefore decided to take the plunge and upgrade a further eighteen of my sites yesterday. All seemed to go well, with no themes suddenly broken, and as I’d already tested their plugins on the test blog, no issues there either. The upgrade process went smoothly, though I did ensure I had both exported XML files for backups on each blog, as well as downloading the SQL table backups before starting each upgrade.
Now all I need to do is wait for the Random Tagline plugin author to not update his code (no response from e-mailing him, and the site appears to not have been touched in a little over a year), or just skip that and go ahead with upgrading this blog now. Can anyone else recommend an alternative to WP Random Tagline?
Apr 09 2008
19-1 In Favour Of WordPress 2.5
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Mar 30 2008
WordPress 2.5 Early Reactions – Sticky Post + WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugins
[UPDATE AT END OF POST]
OK, I have upgraded my test blog site to WordPress 2.5, to see if any problems occur with my current plugins etc., before committing myself to upgrading my 19 other blogs.
It would appear that a couple of things may be of interest to others…
1) Using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin, the process bombed out at the ‘cleanup stage’. To clarify, the upgrade proceeded as normal, but the procedure halted when the process attempted to delete its temporary files. I was able to continue (WordPress had me login in again), click on the Manage link, go to Automatic Upgrade, and finish off the process successfully (AFAI can tell). Go here for the general plugin page, and here for the latest update info.
2) The Sticky Post plugin (previously found at http://blog.vishalon.net/Post/88.aspx, though that page is now removed or perhaps the permalink structure over there changed?), that enables you to keep a specific post on the front page for as long as you want, without constantly fiddling the time stamp, appears to be temporarily broken by WordPress 2.5 . I suspect this was due to code changes within WordPress that deal with handling which posts should be displayed. If you have the plug in installed, upgrade to WordPress 2.5, and find that none of your posts appear, along with an error of WordPress database error: [Table 'wp_posts' from one of the SELECTs cannot be used in global ORDER clause] at the top of your page, login as normal, and deactivate the Sticky Post plugin.
( SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.*, 2 AS N FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private') ) UNION ALL ( SELECT wp_posts.*, 1 AS N FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id WHERE wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'STICKY' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value = '1' ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 1) ORDER BY N, wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0,10
I still want to carry out further testing before upgrading my other blogs, but I’m reasonably happy, so far at least.
For further info on the final release of WordPress 2.5, see here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
[UPDATE]
See this post for further details on plugin compatibility testing with WordPress 2.5
Feb 27 2008
WP-GotLucky Problem Sorted
I recently got around to creating the required SQL tables for this plugin to function. I had a problem though, where I was not being e-mailed the results when somebody found my site from searching for a specific term. I tried a few different approaches, but couldn’t get the code to work.
oooops.
I actually got around to checking the script code properly today.
Of course the plugin wasn’t e-mailing me results, I hadn’t uncommented the specific line 🙂
For anyone else running up against this problem, remove the // symbols from the line that starts mail(get_settings('
I’m now being e-mailed, and the RSS feed still works. Whilst the feed is a lot quicker to access (its set in FireFox as one of my RSS locations to check), it is useful to have an archive of previous search terms that this site appeared in – apart from anything else, it is one way of letting me know the reason people arrived here (at least from Google, that is).
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Mar 01 2007
ADSL arrived and We, The Undersigned Petition
Found a link to a UK Government beta web site that held a petition on the price of Windows Vista, compared to USA prices.
This next caught my eye – …..petition the Prime Minister to Recognize Borat As The Leader Of Kazakhstan (!)
This petition should be of interest to AlexC.
This petition will be of interest to John as it concerns proposed legislation on taking photos in a public place.
Here we have a petition that publicly funded (UK) software should be released under a free licence, so the whole nation may reap benefits.
This one came as news to me
Fingerprinting is being introduced in thousands of UK Primary Schools as part of a subsidised library package called Junior Librarian that they have purchased, encouraged by central government. New schools are joining the scheme at the rate of around 20 a week. To date, more than 3500 schools and nurseries (manufacturer’s official figure, given to the Daily Mirror) have fingerprinted and photographed 3/4 million children, ranging in age from 3 to 11; impressionable, trusting and naive. Involved companies have given premier partners with access to their SQL database AND a commercial arrangement for the reselling or endorsement or their products.
This is always done without explicit parental consent, and even in some cases, without parental knowledge.
Schools strongly resist sending parents the opt-in consent slips that are used for just about everything else. Some parents only find out AFTERWARDS
Finally, we have a petition for Seb & any other schmokers out there…
Oh yes, and we finally have ADSL installed at home. I’m going to have to use the internet LESS than I did on dial up, as we only get 700 megabytes per month (up AND download :< ), but it means I can do my work in the daytime, so I'm really chuffed that it has arrived.
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