WordPress 2.7 Has Arrived
So, what do you think? Should I take the plunge? I mean, I always get excited by new interfaces and software but hmm…
I think I’ll wait.
I just spent the past week getting all the Overcome Everything blogs up to version 2.6.5! Gaaaa… That pickles my brain.
But that’s not why I’m deciding to wait a while, of course. You know if you’ve read other posts on this blog that I would totally love it if WordPress just gets the bugs out first. You can’t do that unless a bunch of people are playing with your software and trying to make it break, of course, so I’m sure that a lot of people were doing that today.
So, not changing… not yet. Not on the important blogs. It’s just too much of a pain you know where, and then if something does get buggy I’m not that talented to figure out the whys and where fors. Pat’s method is to do things, even if they don’t make sense, until something works. Not a programmer, though I very often wish I were. It would make things so much easier to be enlightened. Think?
I’ll probably upgrade one of the minor blogs to WP2.7 and see how that goes first.
Here’s something weird that happened when I upgraded one of the blogs to 2.6.5… It wouldn’t accept my login information! So, I decided to try the blog in Internet Explorer, and it worked! In Firefox, it tells me my login is bogus. How’s that happen?
I’ve done at least 59 upgrades and this is the first time that I’ve run into that. I’m thinking it may be the theme, which is an older one and I haven’t changed it because it suits the purpose and just looks nice. But maybe it’s time for a theme change, and since it’s one of the minor blogs, I’ll try the newest version of WordPress and see how it goes.
Why not? If something is broken, why not fix it with something else that might be broken?
That’s Pat logic.
Anyway, once that’s done, I’ll give you my report.
Love WordPress. Just wish they’d be less like Microsoft and more like, “Here… This is great! You won’t need another upgrade for a full year.”
But how can we really complain? WordPress is the greatest blogging software on the planet, and it’s free. Gotta love that.
Sandra Friend
December 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm #
Pat, Firefox just released an upgrade very recently. If you let it auto-update, there’s a chance that it and Wordpress are out of synch. Know what you mean about wait a little bit. I still have one blog I can’t upgrade due to a server-side problem, and I can’t update it at all from IE.
Pat Marcello
December 11th, 2008 at 8:41 pm #
@Sandra Friend -
Hmmm… I’d agree, except I just upgraded about 7 blogs in the past week or so and only one had the issue. Did them all the same way with the same installation folder. Just weird.
One of the mysteries of CyberSpace, I guess.
Thanks for the comment!
– Pat
Kettlewell
December 12th, 2008 at 3:46 am #
I agree with your MS comment… would be nice to have something that could stick around as is for a while… or at least not make me feel so guilty for not upgrading with that upgrade now message in the admin panel.
Would be nice if the plugins would be forward and backwords compatible between minor versions too….
I’ve got about 20 sites at 2.5.1, 3-4 at 2.3.3 and a few at 2.6.1 …. the upgrade to 2.7 just might not happen for a few of them
Matt
Anthony Glyadchenko
December 14th, 2008 at 8:44 pm #
Wordpress 2.7 is great! Don’t worry about it. All of the features are worth it, like automatic upgrade.
Mike Paetzold
December 16th, 2008 at 9:21 am #
Okay WordPress 2.7 rocks and I have upgraded each blog as I come to them but…
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS do a quick backup first.If it goes bad because of the theme or plugins just replace everything back. Now if you are on 2.6.5 and want to wait for the initial bugs to get out that is fine wait for 2.7.1 but for those on older versions they should be running 2.6.5 at the least only because of security fixes.Inter version upgrades are necessary and are almost always security driven so they become important.
What I really love about 2.7 is adding any plugin from the dashboard (yes no more ftp for plugins) and the auto upgrade feature.
Oh and last I looked the bug list on 2.7 is smaller than I have normally seen for new versions but thensome think me a WordPress geek
Once you do start using it you Pat will love it and the customization it allows.
Pat Marcello
December 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am #
@Mike Paetzold -
Ah… The man who knows the guts of WordPress has spoken.
If you’ve done it… Guess I’ll take the plunge.
Thanks, Mike!
– Pat
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