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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 with no major problems

David Parkinson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:31:34 +0000

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:

Gregarious
Advanced Tag Entry (works but not recommended for WordPress 2.5)
Tag Suggest Thing

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.

WordPress plugins update 3

David Parkinson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:28:59 +0000

It’s time for my WordPress plugins update – the plugins i use on this blog. I’m upgrading to WordPress 2.5 tomorrow. I tested WordPress 2.5 on another blog and broke some of my

The current plugins i have installed as of now are:

The following are not compatible with WordPress 2.5:

I’m sure either the plugin authors will update or there are replacements.

There are some new plugins added to the list such as Robots Meta, Similar Posts and Popularity Contest. Robots Meta is a decent plugin that adds meta tags to admin pages etc. Pages you don’t want indexing by search engines. Similar Posts and Popularity Contest plugins are used for the top bar i made.

Take a look at my previous plugin updates here and here.