Comments on: WordPress 2.0: To Upgrade or Not? http://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/ community, entrepreneurship and business strategy Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:04:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: natehttp://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1135 nate Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:19:47 +0000 http://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1135 Great idea. Thanks! Perhaps someone (I'm too lazy), should create an upgrade script that takes a current 1.5 and ports it over to a nice, fresh-like-the-morning-dew (yet fully tested) 2.0.... eh eh? That would be nice. Great idea. Thanks!

Perhaps someone (I’m too lazy), should create an upgrade script that takes a current 1.5 and ports it over to a nice, fresh-like-the-morning-dew (yet fully tested) 2.0…. eh eh? That would be nice.

]]> By: Dougal Campbellhttp://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1133 Dougal Campbell Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:29:09 +0000 http://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1133 The best thing to do might be to set up a test copy of WP2 in a subdirectory, with a different table prefix in the config. Copy your theme and plugins to the test copy and, uh... test :) Once you're satisfied that things are working, delete the test copy and upgrade! The best thing to do might be to set up a test copy of WP2 in a subdirectory, with a different table prefix in the config. Copy your theme and plugins to the test copy and, uh… test :)

Once you’re satisfied that things are working, delete the test copy and upgrade!

]]> By: natehttp://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1132 nate Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:21:03 +0000 http://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1132 Thanks for the comment, Dougal. Yea, I've heard that it's the under-the-hood stuff that's really changed, which does make me excited for the future. I'm just a little worried about some of the stuff I've seen out there about broken plugins. That's my main concern. Should be interesting, needless to say, in the near future, to see what people do with the changes. Thanks for the comment, Dougal.

Yea, I’ve heard that it’s the under-the-hood stuff that’s really changed, which does make me excited for the future. I’m just a little worried about some of the stuff I’ve seen out there about broken plugins. That’s my main concern.

Should be interesting, needless to say, in the near future, to see what people do with the changes.

]]> By: Dougal Campbellhttp://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1131 Dougal Campbell Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:07:59 +0000 http://blog.perfectspace.com/2006/01/05/wordpress-20-to-upgrade-or-not/#comment-1131 Backing up the db is just a precaution, and is a good idea in any case (I backed up my entire database and my entire web site directory tree). You shouldn't have to muck with .htaccess or plugins in most cases. I really expected tags4wp and the image browser plugin on my site to break, but they work fine. A lot of people seem to think that the new version of WP is mostly just cosmetics. But the under-the-hood changes to the database accesses, plugin API, user roles/permissions, and the addition of "attachments" is going to open up a whole new world for plugin authors to create interesting modifications. Backing up the db is just a precaution, and is a good idea in any case (I backed up my entire database and my entire web site directory tree). You shouldn’t have to muck with .htaccess or plugins in most cases. I really expected tags4wp and the image browser plugin on my site to break, but they work fine.

A lot of people seem to think that the new version of WP is mostly just cosmetics. But the under-the-hood changes to the database accesses, plugin API, user roles/permissions, and the addition of “attachments” is going to open up a whole new world for plugin authors to create interesting modifications.

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