Tuesday, July 15, 2008

WordPress 2.6 First Impressions

I already mentioned my opinion of the theme selection in my previous post about WordPress 2.6, so I'm going to leave that out of this entry.

I just updated one of my WordPress 2.5.1 sites to WordPress 2.6. I used the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin which saves you the steps of a manual upgrade.  I didn't get any errors, and I've been using this plugin since upgrading to Wordpress 2.5.  This plugin is not yet for use with Wordpress-MU, so don't try it until the plugin's webpage says otherwise.

I mention this because Wordpress Multi User is changing its next release from 1.6 to 2.6 to help reduce upgrading confusion. I personally think it will cause as much confusion as it will remove, but I digress.

The automatic upgrade plugin never reenables my plugins after upgrading Wordpress, but now it isn't a big deal since Wordpress 2.6 lets you activate or deactivate more than one plugin at a time.  No more one at a time change drudgery.

After upgrading I reactivated my plugins and used the plugin updating feature that was added in Wordpress 2.5 to update my plugins that had notices.  You'll want to check every week for plugin updates. A few plugins seem to break or act funny after every Wordpress version revision.

I do not see any of my current plugins breaking with this version. My page loaded no problem.  I didn't get any strange PHP errors either.

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