Comments on: WordPress Wednesday: WordPress 2.1 and More

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By: Useful Links #4 | Twenty Steps

Useful Links #4 | Twenty Steps — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:38:37 +0000

[...] Talking on things that rock, WordPress is my absolute favourite blogging software without a shadow of a doubt. They launched WordPress 2.1 back in January and there are some great articles out there on how to optimise your WP experience including 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.1, WordPress 2.1 Upgrade Tips and Tricks and a brilliant piece by Lorelle VanFossen about WordPress over at the Blog Herald. [...]

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Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:41:13 +0000

[...] WordPress Feb 7 at 4:36 am by Lorelle VanFossen – Now that the dust is starting to settle around the recent WordPress 2.1, as was the hot news last week and the week before, there is a lot of new features and fun being had on WordPress.com blogs and a new contest by Aaron Brazell which should make some noise for a very powerful but often overlooked feature on WordPress blogs. [...]

By: Beautiful Blogging » Upgrading to WordPress 2.1

Beautiful Blogging » Upgrading to WordPress 2.1 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:02:58 +0000

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By: WordPress Wednesday: Happy Birthday and More WordPress 2.1 at The Blog Herald

WordPress Wednesday: Happy Birthday and More WordPress 2.1 at The Blog Herald — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:14:45 +0000

[...] Back to more important things, as I reported in the WordPress news last week, the WordPress 2.1 release went fairly well, though two issues frequently came to the fore: Compatibility with WordPress 2.1 and WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins. [...]

By: Richard Blair

Richard Blair — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:17:58 +0000

I held my breath, crossed my fingers, and did the upgrade via Fantastico on my bluehost.com control panel. I’m using a somewhat obscure theme (extensively modified) with a couple of plugins that weren’t on the 2.1 compatibility list. Of course, I backed everything up just in case. I was particularly concerned about the WP_Forums plugin, because there was chatter in the support forum about issues with WP_Forums 1.7.4 in WP 2.1.

In other words, I expected disaster.

I was pleasantly surprised that the upgrade seemed to come off without a hitch.

Whew.

I’ll be watching closely over the next few days to make sure everything on the blog continues to work.

By: assa

assa — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:10:09 +0000

Did you try here for another fix for the FeedWordPress Plugin in the WordPress Support Forums?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:14:43 +0000

They know and are working on fixing it.

And always glad to help!

By: HART-Empire.com » A Side Note About Upgrading My Blogs #6-#14 and FeedWordPress Plugin (HART-EMPIRE NETWORK)

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:13:01 +0000

[...] As a final note… a “Thank-You” to Lorelle VanFossen who gave me the idea in the comments that I might have messed up the text inside the plugin itself, that gave me the idea that I should just try to get a “untexturized” working copy ..which led me to email Trent Adams in the first place! And, as I’ve always maintained .. (1) it never hurts to ask .. and (2) you never know what you will get if you do ask for something. Generally .. people are nice and quite helpful! [...]

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:14:14 +0000

1) Lorelle .. I have finally resolved my issues with this FeedWordPress. I can only assume that somehow I did texturize the changes, or something else that is totally my fault .. as, Trent (who figured out the patch) was kind enough to forward me working copies of the scripts. I still had a few issues and work-arounds but I plan to document it on HART-Empire.com in case others might want to know, instead of here. It’s odd that wordpress support or the author would not reply to my enquiries.

2) To Abe or Chris or et all .. in the last 3 days .. everytime I come to this site.. I receive that yellow top bar and bleep .. “To help protect yourself, Internet Explorer (IE7) has blocked this website from displying content with security certification errors. Click here for details” …. I then right click and select Display Blocked Content .. Thought you would want to know .. it’s annoying!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:31:31 +0000

A syntax error is usually a result of copying code from a web page when the code hasn’t been “texturized” or changed into non-pretty quotes and apostrophes. Check all quote marks and apostrophes to make sure they are TEXT not pretty codes. A search and replace in a text editor will quickly change them to make sure. Or a forgotten ; ? ( or > will kill a bit of code. It could be something that small.

Hopefully someone on the Support Forum will be able to help. I’m unfamiliar with the Plugin and it’s sad to see a popular WordPress Plugin get abandoned by its author.

So I highly recommend you look elsewhere at other feed WordPress Plugins to replace this, or, if it is that important, pay someone to create one for you. The odds are that this Plugin, unless the author returns to it or someone takes it over, will not be ready for the next release.

Good luck.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:12:58 +0000

Hi Lorelle ..

I have modified the plugin for the two line corrections .. and this patch still does not fix it. I’ve been using this plugin to aggregate the channel feeds and it doesn’t work. Besides the obvious error messages in the options / syndication..

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY cat_id' at line 1]
SELECT cat_id, cat_name, auto_toggle FROM ORDER BY cat_id

When it kicks you out of the program after you activate it (and won’t let you back in until you delete the file .. you get this error message among 3 errors..

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/network/public_html/wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress.php:6107) in /home/network/public_html/personal-and-security/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275

I have started at thread at Support http://wordpress.org/support/topic/102947?replies=1

I sure hope there is a fix, as I’ll have to figure out a way to do this with OPML or something .. // ~wave

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:28:05 +0000

Did you try here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54125 ?

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:37:24 +0000

ATTENTION: ANYBODY

Before you install WordPress 2.1, check the WordPress Plugin compatibility list to make sure your favorite can’t-live-without WordPress Plugins will work with the new version.

Does anybody have a working FeedWordPress Plugin working? The codex implies that this plugin works with a patch but it doesn’t work for me. I can’t live without it. The WordPress Support forums have the comments as closed. The author keeps my comment in moderation.

If anybody has a working version for WP2.1 .. can you please email me? hart (at) 1800HART (dot) com

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:18:27 +0000

3. Delete the old WordPress core files.
4. Upload the new WordPress core files.
=========
I’ve upgraded my 2nd blog yesterday from 2.0.2 version to 2.1 and it was less plug’n'play install than my 1.5.2 was. However, when smoking guns stopped smoking .. I feel it was basically not following step 3 above. The older version was successfully overwritten but, not the 2.0+ version.

I bet there there is a lot of blogger out there who do not really understand this statement though .. (What are core files?)
>> It’s .. /wp-admin/ and the /wp-includes/ folders in layman’s terms.
>> I am also deleting the backups and the cache folders in /wp-content/ as well.

PS: the UTW fix works and is working on my two upgraded sites. But, I’m sad that the WP-Amazon plugin upgrade is still in progress.

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Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:03:30 +0000

[...] Using this site as a jumping (or is it “surfing”) point, I found a ton of helpful information on the new WP v2.1 while I sipped my morning coffee. If you don’t have a full pot, get to brewin’ cuz there’s a LOT of very “need to know” info here! [...]

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:18:31 +0000

Thanks, Lorelle. I guess I’d rather wait for an official release. I’ve had my share of headaches trying to hack that one last night.

Turns out the Hemmed theme I was using was causing some problems too, particularly with the live search and live comments (which I think should not have been there in the first place!).

Cheers.

angelo

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:43:14 +0000

I believe the Ultimate Tag Warrior works with 2.1, especially after this fix. Have you tried that?

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:02:21 +0000

I had to revert to 2.07 since I realized 2.1 doesn’t work with Ultimate tag warrior yet (and that’s one major plugin I use for organizing my blog).

By: WordPress Themes » Archive » What Happened in the Last 7 Days?

WordPress Themes » Archive » What Happened in the Last 7 Days? — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:54:04 +0000

[...] I challenged myself to create one WordPress theme per day for 30 days. Since then, I’ve received some much needed encouragement to help me stick to it and finish through. Even Lorelle (on blogherald.com) and Mark (on weblogtoolscollection.com) have mentioned Small Potato and WPDesigner, but now I’m actually going for longer than 31 days because WP Diva has already accomplished the 31 days feat. (By the way, the WP Diva herself was commenting on my blog earlier this week, which was another highlight for this Small Potato.) [...]

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Coadunation » links for 2007-01-24 — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:20:36 +0000

[...] WordPress Wednesday: WordPress 2.1 and More The weekly column at the Blog Herald has a lot of good information about WordPress 2.1 and related issues this week. (tags: blogging technology) [...]

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:52:34 +0000

That was very thorough ..

I’ve upgraded one blog that was still v1.5.2 directly to v2.1 but didn’t delete any of the old files at all. It seems to be working fine since the upgrade. So far so good, although I don’t know what would happen if something was wrong – except for a death screen .so I’m backing up daily in the meantime.

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Say No to Crack — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:10:14 +0000

For some reason, all my comments have been going into spam the past 2 days. VERY annoying.

By: Lana loves pictures

Lana loves pictures — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:45:19 +0000

Great news. I like the clean code of WordPress very much. The core team did a fabulous job.

Thank you for sharing this story with me !