Upgrade to WordPress 2.5: the obligatory post :P
Well what kind of WordPress lover would I be if I didn’t get around to upgrading my own blog and posting about it? So here you go.
As a side note, I’ve finally given in to the urge for a WordPress category on my site. I keep wanting to writing about things I’ve discovered, and feeling that maybe it’s a bit too technical for people that read my blog, but what the heck. It’s good to share what you’re learning and maybe someone will find it useful.
Upgrading WordPress
I just upgraded and it was pretty painless. I used the WordPress automatic upgrade plugin which backs up your files and database, deactivates plugins, etc. I found a little snag in it though. I always install WordPress in a subfolder of my site and then hide the subfolder in my URLs. So as I was going through the install, the plugin would links to download the backup-zips would be 404s/not found. I simply added the missing part of the URL and away I went.
My webhost has a 1-click upgrader for WordPress, but I don’t think it does as much in the back up department so I was a little hesitant to go that route.
A Bug in wp_list_pages
Christine upgraded DougFabian.com today, a site I helped her build, and she found a little bug after the upgrade. We had used the wp_list_pages function to build the navigation on the left, and excluded one group of pages by excluding their parent page. Well, all the children pages were being listed. Turns out others are having the same problem: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164951
I tried the suggestion in that support page to comment out one line, which broke the site, so I changed it from
$r['hierarchical'] = 0;
to
$r['hierarchical'] = 1;
And that seems to have done the trick. Other subpages are still displaying.
I would have posted an update to that in the forum, but I’m having trouble logging in. It’s a bit confusing; the codex and the forum look the same but seem to have different usernames, and I gave up eventually after chasing password resets and registration processes for a bit.
So far I’m pretty impressed with 2.5, though I agree with Christine that hidden post IDs is an unfortunate choice for us blog developers. Of course Happy Cog did a fabulous job overall. I don’t think they could do a non-fabulous redesign unless they set out to 
Problem adding video in Wordpress 2.5
Oh, and another snag… I was just editing this post in one tab, and opened an older post in another tab to edit it. I wanted to see if I could easily embed a YouTube video. It didn’t seem to work, but when I came back to the tab for this post, the insertion had happened in this tab and all the paragraphs in my post had disappeared :-/
Posted: April 10th, 2008 under WordPress Tips.
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