Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 Dexter

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1. oyunlar (1 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 8:12 am

   thanx
2. spencerp (5 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 8:58 am

   Just an FYI: Alot of issues currently going on now, can be found in this Support thread.
   http://wordpress.org/support/t.....?replies=2
3. Jeremy (3 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 9:15 am

   I’m not sure why he recommends installing 2.2.3 over the top if you receive the 500 error, as 2.3 deletes the wp_post2cat tables, which is 2.2.3’s form of categorisation. Unless, of course, you receive the 500 errors before you even get a chance to run the upgrade, in which case you should be safe downgrading.
4. Mark Ghosh (386 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 9:21 am

   Good point Jeremy, that will only work if the upgrade did not go through all the way, otherwise the tables will not exist.
5. Melissa (1 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 9:26 am

   …Or just use the automatic upgrade plugin like I did and it’s installed in less than 3 minutes.
6. Michael (1 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 10:29 am

   Regarding svn, i think it’s simpler just using patch/diff files as one doesn’t have to take care about the .svn directories, which i don’t want to delivered by my apache.
   Patch files can easily be generated by the wp trac.

   Ciao,
   Michael.
7. Jenny (24 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 12:35 pm

   I tried to upgrade and all I got was a blank screen so I give up.
8. Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 1:54 pm

   It took me about an hour or two but I was finally able to upgrade my WordPress installation which you can read about here http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/my-w.....xperience/ I did experience database errors in relation to the UTW plugin but I ended up fixing those. The tag importer seemed to work flawlessly but I miss the functionality of my UTW plugin already.
9. Kirk M (67 comments.) says:

   9/25/2007 at 3:08 pm

   I can state for a fact that running 2.2.3 over a 2.3 upgrade that went all the way through will not work. Backing up your entire 2.2.3 (or whatever version) DB is essential if you need to fall back. I found that I had to drop all 2.3 tables (yes all), import my previous backup’d 2.2.3 DB and then downgrade my WP install to 2.2.3 (keeping the wp-content directory original through out testing of course) and all was well. 2.3 works for me just fine BTW but when I was testing out beta 3 I purposely tried different ways of downgrading and the above is what worked. Others may have been successful using other ways.
10. Alex (2 comments.) says:

    9/25/2007 at 4:53 pm

    Spanish version available here
11. Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

    9/25/2007 at 7:47 pm

    Am I the only one having problems with the INCOMING LINKS section of the dashboard? This thing keeps showing my latests blog posts from the front page instead of showing me links.
12. Martin (1 comments.) says:

    9/26/2007 at 6:13 am

    this is great, im glad virtually all the plugins are working, hopefully wp-email will be soon.
13. Kelson (20 comments.) says:

    9/26/2007 at 1:45 pm

    @Jeffro2pt0: It looks like the Incoming Links list switched from Technorati to Google Blog Search. Unfortunately, Google Blog Search doesn’t filter out hits from your own blog, so if you don’t get a lot of incoming links, your own posts will drown out the information you actually want.
14. Doug Smith (17 comments.) says:

    9/27/2007 at 12:07 pm

    I just released a plugin called “Upgrade Preflight Check” that may be of help to those upgrading to WordPress 2.3. It scans through your other plugins and themes looking for problems that may cause errors with WordPress 2.3. It’s best to run it before upgrading, but it could also help find plugins or theme elements causing errors after upgrading.
15. Stephanie Booth (1 comments.) says:

    9/28/2007 at 6:33 am

    I’ve been trying to find information on whether upgrade from 2.0.x to 2.3 is possible. Any opinions/experience on that?
16. Vaibhav Gadodia (8 comments.) says:

    9/30/2007 at 9:48 am

    I have just upgraded to 2.3. I was having trouble with an error related to wp_post2cat. Turned out it was an incompatible plugin.
    http://blog.gadodia.net/upgrading-wordpress-to-23/
17. Jeffro2pt0 (164 comments.) says:

    10/1/2007 at 10:58 pm

    Thanks Kelson, through a friend, I figured out how to change them back to Technorati links.

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