WordPress 2.3 upgrade available and other news

Posted September 25, 2007 // Tagged as Thoughts // 12 Comments ↓

Well the big day arrived and WordPress 2.3 was finally released to the world. As I had already prepared a few of my blogs using the steps here, all I had to do was SSH into my server, go to each blog directory and type:

svn up

It took all of five minutes in total with no side effects (at time of writing).

There are more guides to upgrading your WordPress blog to the latest version at the Weblogtoolscollection.com site.

Plugin Subversion details

I have added a page to our development site with instructions and links to the Subversion repositories for all of our current range of released and in-development plugins.

If you want to stay on the (b)leading edge then this is the place to find all the details.

MyDashboard and WordPress 2.3

The MyDashboard plugin works quite well with the latest version of WordPress, however there is a problem with one of the standard gadgets so far.

The standard WordPress blog statistics gadget is looking for the now non-existent categories table and so will display an error if it is displayed on your Dashboard. The error is displayed above the gadget itself, so you can still (and should) click on the X to remove the statistics gadget.

I will have a new WordPress 2.3 compatible gadget out soon (I will post when it is available for download).

12 Responses

  1. david

    September 26th, 2007 at 11:30 am

    Hi, Does you’re booking plugin work with 2.3?

    d,

  2. Barry

    September 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Hi David
    Yes the latest version of the Booking plugin works fine with WordPress 2.3
    Barry

  3. david

    September 26th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    Ah cool, thankyou. I guess its something i’m doing wrong then :)

  4. Barry

    September 26th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    What errors or problems are you having?
    I might have missed something as I installed the new WordPress over the top of already activated plugins.
    Barry

  5. david

    September 27th, 2007 at 12:21 am

    Brand new install of wordpress 2.3, on IIS, copy the booking plugin into plugins, it shows up on the plugins page. When I activate it, wordpress throws a fatal error, and the browser shows a blank page. And stays that way, until I delete the bookings plugin folder.

    I’ll have some time to play with it later today, and see if i can get some better error information about it.

  6. david

    September 27th, 2007 at 2:57 am

    Hm, tried it on a apache server and worked perfectly there.

    I’ve started a thread in the forums, thats probably a better place to try and figure this out:
    http://forum.clearskys.net/comments.php?DiscussionID=50

    d,

  7. Rick

    September 27th, 2007 at 8:43 am

    Hi Barry!

    Just in case, here are a fixed version of your default.php file, fixed for WP2.3, with tag count, pingback/trackback count and a new Google Blog Search gadget.

    http://code.jinlabs.com/files/default.phps

    Thanks for your plugin ;)

  8. Barry

    September 27th, 2007 at 10:47 am

    Thanks Rick
    I’ve downloaded a copy and will have a quick look / play.
    Barry

  9. Rick

    October 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 am

    Hi Barry! gafeman (http://viciao2k3.net) & I founded a little bug:
    In the recent coments gadget, the comment edit link doesnt work (because is not on the loop, i guess).

    The options are make the link manually or declare $comment global.

    I prefer the 1st one, so recheck the http://code.jinlabs.com/files/default.phps file for one approach…

    Regards

  10. Barry

    October 2nd, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    Rick
    Thanks for the info, I’m due to release 0.3.1 beta today, so I will try to get your approach integrated before I do
    Barry

  11. Barry

    October 13th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    Rick
    I’ve incorporated a few of your changes into the latest version of the MyDashboard plugin. I had to make some little changes to make the gadgets backwards compatible with WordPress pre-2.3 though.
    Thanks for all your help
    Barry

  12. china news

    September 1st, 2008 at 6:09 am

    Thanks for the info,
    I might have missed something as I installed the new WordPress over the top of already activated plugins.
    Barry

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