WordPress Version 2.5 Imminent
So don’t forget to use common sense when you upgrade!
With the impending1 the new WordPress 2.5 release, Mari2 caught this article on BlogHerald with reminders for when you upgrade. Mari loves how helpful the WordPress community is with these things. It seems every time there’s an upgrade, someone kindly posts some reminders and tips.
WordPress Users: are you going to upgrade to 2.5 when it comes out?
Here’s a helpful list of plugins that people have tested with the 2.5 betas.
Mari is going to update as soon as she sees the new version is out. Mari runs a test site so she can tell if everything will be screwed up ahead of time. In-house testing makes happy WordPress blogs.
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10 March 2008, 23:22
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I’ve backed up my blog and I’m in the process of setting up a dummy blog and installing everything that is on my current blog on it and then upgrading it to 2.5 to see if it’ll work. I’m still scared to though, not to mention it’s going to require changing my tags and importing them. *sigh*
I only updated my wordpress the other day, after it had been bugging me to do it for weeks, and I’m going to have to update it again?!?!
I think i’ll wait and see how it works for others, before i do it because I don’t want to mess up my site
@Joana
Reminds Mari, she needs to back up Mt!!
Dummy blogs are the best. You can test new themes and plugins without ever screwing up your regular blog.
Oh, you were still using UTW? Mari actually thinks the 2.3 built-in tagging support works a lot better than UTW ever did.
@Becky
LOL You’re one of those people who never updates, huh? Mari updates almost immediately if she’s on the Internets.
A lot of people like to wait and see, and sometimes its a very wise decision.
Testing it out before going public with it is a great idea. Cause inevitably some things get screwed up when the scripts are updated.
@Julie
Yeah, even when you read and prepare and run through checklists, it’s always a good idea to test it on some super-secret site first.
I’ll upgrade it immediately. Though, at first I’ll probably just upgrade my offline WordPress installation so if (and when, with my luck) something gets screwed up, I won’t lose my site completely. Offline sites, ftw! They make life so much easier
@Kaisa
You use the “WordPress on a flash drive” method?
@Mari
I have Xampp (Apache distribution with MySQL, PHP etc.) installed on my computer, so not on a flash drive, but the same basic principle applies
@Kaisa
Yeah, Mari couldn’t remember what the bundle was called, but that’s the one Mari was talking about.
Mari thought about that, but Mari likes being able to have people see what she’s working on as well as having it on her own computer. Kinda defeats the purpose of being able to work on it when the Internet’s down, but, if it were on a flash drive, Mari would forget about it all the time.