David Parkinson - Miscellaneous ramblings of a web developer » admin panel http://daparky.com Miscellaneous ramblings of a web developer called David Parkinson. I work full time as a web developer but have interests in other things. Mon, 14 May 2012 20:57:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 with no major problems http://daparky.com/upgraded-to-wordpress-25-with-no-major-problems/ http://daparky.com/upgraded-to-wordpress-25-with-no-major-problems/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:31:34 +0000 David Parkinson http://daparky.com/?p=185 Last night i upgraded daparky.com to WordPress 2.5 and i’m liking it a lot. I didn’t have time to do talkplaystation.com, i will probably do that tonight when i have some free time. The upgrade process went very smooth, unfortunately a few plugins didn’t make it through. These were:

Over the weekend i’m going to look for some alternatives to the above plugins that don’t work. I’m sure there are plenty out there.

WordPress 2.5 works a lot quicker in the admin panel, whereas it was a bit sluggish pre 2.5. I like the new design and layout, it’s a lot easier to navigate around. Some people reported problems with ‘Popular contest’ plugin, getting a fatal error when enabling the plugin in WordPress 2.5. There is a fix for this, all you have to do is:

 

Open popularity-contest.php and scroll down to line 59. Replace require(’../../wp-blog-header.php’); with require(’../wp-blog-header.php’);

Click here for more information.

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