Finally Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1
I’ve been avoiding updating this blog from WordPress 2.2 to 2.3.1. Not that I had made so many changes that would make upgrading difficult, but I just didn’t want to deal with the hassle. Picking a theme was tough enough for me, but I needed to upgrade with all the security fixes coming out.
I finally sat down and went through the process.
Boy, was it easy.
It took longer to download and unzip WordPress and the plugins than doing the upgrade. Having used the Ultimate Tag Warrior to tag all my posts, I was afraid the new tagging functionality in WordPress would screw it up. Instead, the WordPress tag import worked flawlessly and I had no changes to make. There were updates available for all the plugins and those upgrades went smoothly.
No wonder Movable Type is eager to go open source.
I have yet to do that on mine… I have done a huge amount of customization to it. While the theme is not so bad, I made some customizations to WP itself for better XHTML handling, and so upgrading is a bit of a pain for me.
By the way, have you looked into adding OpenID support to your WP install? OpenID is a distributed authentication system that enables people to retain identity over multiple web sites. It is really a fascinating system.
Michael,
You are right. I installed the plugin and am trying it out with this comment.
nick
I noticed you used to have your tag in a list, and now it’s in a cloud. I had the same troubles, too, but I ended up hacking the tag cloud widget to put it in a list format. It’s just a matter of changing the options passed to the tag cloud function. Change this in wp-includes/widgets.php under the wp_widget_tag_cloud:
wp_tag_cloud(’smallest=9&largest=9&format=list’);
That should get the list back for you.