Comments on: Upgraded to WP 2.1 Ella

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:34:53 +0000

Hello Mark,

I have also successfully upgraded from 2.0.6. So far, there have been no issues to report. I am in the process of moving my content to new host provider and wanted to test the export and import features of 2.1. That’s why I needed to upgrade. v 2.0.6 does not have an export feature that I know of. I exported from the upgrade into a fresh install at my new host. I am quite pleased with how that worked.

Take a look when you have an opportunity.

By: gianmoenia

gianmoenia — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:06:43 +0000

Maybe tomorrow

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:50:42 +0000

Very much looking forward to seeing the benchmarks you find.

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By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:57:49 +0000

I would love to upgrade however my host (godaddy) has mysql 3.23 installed.

By: Jan Stedehouder

Jan Stedehouder — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:59:12 +0000

I upgraded a few days ago already. It went like a breeze. Only one thing: since the update Akismet in catching between 100 and 150 spam posts a day instead of 30 before that. It looks like 2.1 is attracting way more spam… but that is ridiculous, ain’t it?

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:28:52 +0000

I’ve upgraded to Ella with little to no problems (less than 2 hrs after the announcement ). Some plugins had to be dropped, but nothing that my blog couldn’t run without. I can’t count how many times I clicked “Cancel” instead of “Insert” so if you could write a post on how you hacked it to be the old way around, please let us know.

By: Bruce -- Harper Blue

Bruce -- Harper Blue — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:23:44 +0000

What problems I had when I upgraded seemed based either in the template out front, or in the administration template I was using. Turning off the admin template plugin cleared my writing window shoving off to the right when I switched from visual to code views. (I’ve dropped a note to the designer of the template.)

As for the public view, that problem was based in the tags looking for links instead of a blogroll. I was able to patch the sidebar code by borrowing the correct line from the Classic template and pasting it into the veryplaintext sidebar; however, I also found that lines I’d tagged for centered display wouldn’t. I’ve since switched to another template that I find attractive, and is a little more graphically oriented. In fact, it has almost every feature I’m looking for, except for the big quotes on a blockquote instead of just boxing the excerpt off. If I sit down and examine the themes, I may be able to psych this out myself and do my own revision. (It’s time I learned a little PHP anyway, I suppose.)

By: Mike Baptiste

Mike Baptiste — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:01:22 +0000

I’m just about done with a new site setup on WP 2.1 and, well, not bad, but still some quirks. I’m seeing segmentation faults of apache with the WP 2.1 site, though only here and there, and the Categories tab in admin crashes every time. It’s PHP 4 - hoping to upgrade to 5 soon - though I’ve never had any problems before.

That said - it is faster and I like the admin improvements.

My biggest complaint by far is the truncating of feeds after the tag. I tease posts all the time but like having the full post in a feed. This should have been an option. Hoping I can hack the original behavior back in with a plugin.

My other sites likely need some theme updates before I make the jump so I’ll be on 2.0.x with many of them for a time.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:51:28 +0000

i upgraded on the first day. since i have fantastico xD its pretty nifty.

By: Mike Abundo

Mike Abundo — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:33:25 +0000

That UTW patch doesn’t work on trackbacks.

By: Daz Cox

Daz Cox — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:47:35 +0000

Did it on the first day and it seems fine, but I am still quite new to WP.

By: Lolak

Lolak — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:44:38 +0000

I have rework my site and use wp 2.1 since my web hosting is support for mysql ver 5.0. wp 2.1 work well for me and much easier and faster than previous version

By: GaMerZ

GaMerZ — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:03:56 +0000

nice job there Mark

By: Joan

Joan — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:59:04 +0000

I too have upgraded and yes, the AJAX popups are kind of confusing because the positions of the Cancel and Insert buttons have switched. But other than that, i love it and i’m glad my design had no problems with it :).

By: trev

trev — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:17:50 +0000

I made the leap 4 days ago, and the only casualty was my Drop down Links plugin. I like the speedier admin, but have yet to fully explore the new stuff.

By: Alpesh Nakar

Alpesh Nakar — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:57:37 +0000

I have upgraded and at present my theme does not work well. I might move to a theme (temp) that works well. I love my current theme and I have requested the author/designer for an update
I have heaps of plugins, some on/some off and except for 2 plugins (which have been update) others worked well.
Cheers!
Alpesh

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:25:25 +0000

Mine was smooth as silk

By: Jonathan Dobres

Jonathan Dobres — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:14:06 +0000

I upgraded to Ella a few days ago, and I’m largely impressed. The editor feels more responsive and I do like the “Code” tab (though if you notice, it’s not 100% true code; markup like paragraph tags isn’t shown). If you’re having mysterious problems with the TinyMCE editor, try clearing your cache and reloading the Edit Post page. Fixed all my odd problems, including the weird “inescapable URL popup” problem.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:46:56 +0000

I upgraded to Ella last Tuesday and have had very little problems since then. I did notice that when writing posts in Mozilla-based browsers my lines would seldom wrap properly, but this does not appear to be an issue for the various releases of IE. Spell check does work (it puts red lines under mis-spelled words), but I’m uncertain how to add words to the dictionary.
From what I’ve seen in the various forums and sites, this upgrade has been painless for most of the early adopters.
Kudos to the development and testing teams for all their hard work