3ColumnK2 vs. Wordpress 2.3
Edit: False Alarm! In the end, I reverted back to WP2.2.3… 3ColumnK2 is lagging far behind K2 proper, and K2 RC1 itself is much less stable than 3ColumnK2. I’m working on a brand new theme anyway, so it wasn’t worth the many hours it would have taken to move azazil over to WP2.3.
I quietly waited a couple of days to see whether the tubes caught alight from failed Wordpress upgrades, only to be met by a frosty silence. The received wisdom seems to be that it is safest to upgrade any plugins to the latest releases after checking the plugin compatibility list… and yet one of the big features of this release is that it does that for you, so I threw caution to the wind, backed up my database and install directory and ran the upgrade anyway. Sure enough, when I logged back in, Wordpress prompted me to upgrade several of my plugins, which I did.
I run a fairly hefty list of plugins, including Ultimate Tag Warrior, which is most definitely complete overkill for Azazil’s basic tagging needs. I actually spent more time on the backups and preparation than I did on the Wordpress upgrade itself, and since the other big feature of this release is native tagging, I also went ahead and migrated from UTW to native tags, by updating my theme following to Zachary’s example.
A small hiccough is that the Yet Another Photoblog plugin I used for the photos on some of my older posts hasn’t been updated in a very long time, and isn’t supported by the latest Wordpress. This means that those posts will be missing a picture until I go through my database and redo those posts.
The worst problem I hit is that 3 Column K2 (on which Azazil’s theme is based) hasn’t been updated to work with 2.3, but luckily K2 itself has, so I was able to merge in some changes across by hand and keep everything running smoothly. If anyone is interested in what exactly I did to fix everything up, let me know in the comments. All in all, the entire process took just a couple of hours, and I’m very pleased with the results.
3 Responses so far
2007.09.30@5:34 pm
Another upgrade? Yikes!
Sadly your right hand side column’s look a bit on the empty side at the moment. Hope you can get it working again.
In addition for some odd reason there appears to be a phantom button below the “Add comment” button. I’d guess that is supposed to be the “Preview” button.
James
2007.10.01@4:36 pm
Yep, turns out that some combination of my browser cache and the Wordpress cache module fooled me into thinking everything had gone smoothly. I expect I can restore the sidebars and fix other problems over the next few days.
Bah!
2007.10.01@6:30 pm
Urgh. Now I know why it’s called the bleeding edge. Restored to our former glory with the backup I made… Phew! Crisis averted