Comments on: Who Else Has Upgraded to WordPress 2.5?

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By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:11:25 +0000

I just finally got around to upgrading to 2.5 on my less trafficked blogs and it went through without a hitch. I stalled because I thought there would be a plugin issue, which there always was in the past. This time, none and I can scroll down for miles on my plugin menu.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:56:55 +0000

I upgraded because I like to stay up to date, but I wish I waited for the first patch, I’m having issues with timestamps, a couple of plugins, and the write page isn’t nearly as good as the old one.

By: AnneTanne

AnneTanne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:41:13 +0000

@GoingLikeSixty: you asked for my problem with the media-uploader: uploading pictures (haven’t tried video’s) did work, but when I hitted ‘inserted into post’, nothing happened.
Clearing my browsercache solved the problem… but only for a while. I had to do it again a few days later.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:39:03 +0000

Yeah, most of my stuff has been upgraded now. If you're not using it already, there's a great (and quick) way to upgrade WordPress by shell. It's saved me loads of time upgrading and not having to mess around with FTP.

By: Simone

Simone — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:50:37 +0000

No problemwith the upgrade, but some problem in writing! WP2.5, while are you writing, save Draft, also if the post is already saved!!!

By: Fred Chan

Fred Chan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:16:45 +0000

I used Fantastico in cpanel to install my wordpress. Its still in version 2.3.3. I am waiting for the provider to make available the version 2.5. However I have setup a local server to test out all the plugins for 2.5. I even exported my database and import them to the local server and it work fine. I guess this is one way to test never wordpress version to make sure your theme and plugin works before actually changing your actual site. Fred

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:45:55 +0000

I upgraded for the chance to use the new widgetized dashboard, and released a new plugin for that yesterday.

By: Ben de Groot

Ben de Groot — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:39:15 +0000

With WordPress's record of security bugs about the same level as Microsoft's, I think it's rather important to update to the latest version sooner rather than later. So yes, I did upgrade, and it went smoothly. With all the big names involved with the admin backend make-over, you'd think the result would be stunning, but I'm not impressed. I'm giving Habari a closer look, and will probably switch.

By: Ronald @ RA Project

Ronald @ RA Project — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:17:31 +0000

Chris,

Your #2 point is over-stated. Many themes will not break, and have not broken when upgrading from 2.3 to 2.5. WP 2.5 mostly touched the administrative panels and largely left themes alone.

Plugins breaking are a much larger issue than themes in this case. And of those plugins, most affect only the administrative area with respect to style bugs, or the new media feature and write panel.

By: brightfeather

brightfeather — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:56:04 +0000

Apparently 2.5.1 is projected for release on May 1st. That fact coupled with the number of fixes yet, to be devised and applied to the 2.5 fall-out means that I will choose to wait.

By: ryan caldwell

ryan caldwell — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:03:08 +0000

I always let the leather break-in a bit before upgrading. I imagine that there will be a new security release in 4….3….2…

By: Karen Eliot

Karen Eliot — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:52:23 +0000

My concern is that I have various very custom themes that embed other DB stuff in them. I love the way WP can deal with this happily, so my worry is that it might somehow break this functionality. Any ideas anyone?

By: infmom

infmom — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:03:28 +0000

I have four blogs that I have not yet upgraded. Why? Because last time I installed an upgrade, they came out with yet another “critical” one just a few days later. Upgrading four blogs, if you do it carefully, takes time.

So this time around I’m just waiting a bit, to see if they find security holes in this version and release 2.5.1.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:41:15 +0000

I upgraded one blog because it had been awhile since it had been upgraded and I wanted to bring it current. One of my other blogs will most likely stay back for a bit because now I have a better idea of which plugins will break and what to expect.

By: Rick Mahn

Rick Mahn — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:59:06 +0000

I upgraded last week, and had a pretty easy time of it. Everything went smooth. I’ve got two low-traffic sites to upgrade yet, but the “complex” one is done.

By: Chuck Lawson

Chuck Lawson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:41:49 +0000

I upgraded after the first day of attending WordCamp Dallas — I figured if it went into the weeds, there’d never be a better time to get help :-)

All in all, it went smoothly. I had about three plug-ins that didn’t work, and weren’t a problem to lose.

By: Banago

Banago — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:32:55 +0000

Wait for the first patch

Well, this would be a good enough reason.

By: Carazariah

Carazariah — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:05:04 +0000

I upgraded all my clients and my sites except my Wireless site: I found it went much smoother than expected, and only 1 plugin broke, which I found a fix for in less than 20 minutes online.

5 sites total about 1 hour upgrading and re-activating plugins:

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:59:27 +0000

I upgraded “under duress”. I was getting those “connection with database cannot be made” errors that are apparently pretty common in WordPress, though I’d never had them before. Googling around, it seemed that the cause was the way WordPress stores database passwords; thinking it might have been fixed in 2.5, I upgraded.

Ten minutes later, my host emailed me in response to my service ticket, telling me their MySQL servers were down and to hold tight. So I could have (and should ahve) waitied, as per my original plan.

That said, 2.5 has functioned beautifully. I had to disable the Tiger-Style Admin plugin, since some dashboard linkes weren’t showing up; other than that, all my plugins have been fine. The WordPress Stats plugin even puts a widget on the dashboard, so I can see the recent action directly on the dashboard instead of clicking through. Nice!

By: pchere

pchere — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:30:42 +0000

New Version. Must Upgrade. Blog security is of utmost importance.

By: Matt Craven

Matt Craven — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:57:06 +0000

All of mine are upgraded :)