WordPress 2.3 Ready

Published on Sep 25, 2007   //  Security
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Attention bloggers if you have manually installed WordPress then you should start the upgrade to 2.3. A few features have been added to 2.3 as posted by WordPress. 

The 2 major features are…

  • Native tagging support
  • Plugin update notifications

This blog was upgraded manually and it only took a few minutes to upgrade the software.

The plug-ins were a different story all together. They took around an hour to update. I did not realize the plug-ins were that outdated. If you are running old plug-ins they could be prone to security and other issues so I do suggest upgrading them.

One plugin caused a bug in the posting. If you are using the Google Site Map then disable it as it will crash your system. There was no update that fixed it yet.

The tag support is really fun to play with and as you can see in the right hand navigation near the bottom we have created a tag cloud.

For those who installed WordPress with Fantastico,  Netenberg usually has the upgrade released of a day or two later. We do post Fantastico updates on the blog so keep an eye open for that.

4 Comments to “WordPress 2.3 Ready”

  • Matt
    September 25, 2007 6:22 pm

    I don’t know what Sitemap plugin you’re using, but this one supposedly works with 2.3:

    http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/

  • blogadmin
    September 25, 2007 10:38 pm

    I was using this one…

    http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

  • blogadmin
    September 25, 2007 10:41 pm

    Also here is the nasty error it spit out…

    WordPress database error: [Table '*******_wordpress.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
    SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ GROUP BY cat_ID

    WordPress database error: [Table '*******_wordpress.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
    SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ GROUP BY cat_ID

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/******/public_html/blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /home/*******/public_html/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 390

  • Matt
    September 26, 2007 8:21 pm

    Upgrade to version 3 of the Plugin.

    If I remember correctly, post2cat (and others) was dropped because of a new taxonomy system… or something. :P

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