WordPress 3.1 Released

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1. Kishore Mylavarapu (13 comments.) says:

   2/23/2011 at 10:45 pm

   Updated to latest 3.1.Great features great work always.
2. Kiddi the Medical Student (1 comments.) says:

   2/24/2011 at 6:10 am

   I just updated to 3.1 and it worked like a charm, was done in about 30 seconds and there were no errors.

   I think the admin bar is quite nice, it’s a handy feature being able to go straight to your dashboard from the front page instead of having to type the url in the address bar (or press the button in the favourites).
3. Neil (1 comments.) says:

   2/24/2011 at 6:22 am

   I wonder if you could help me out. Yesterday I updated to WordPress 3.1, but today I notice that my homepage is no longer excluding certain categories from showing the excerpts. I still have the followiing in the custom_functions.ph file (ID of category I want to exclude is “4?, the “News” category)
   is_home) {
   $query->set(‘cat’, ‘-4′);
   }
   return $query;
   }
   add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’);
   add_action(‘thesis_hook_footer’, ‘custom_footer’);
   function custom_footer() {

   Can you suggest a solution to this? Has anyone else come across this?
   I hope you can help.
4. Bill (1 comments.) says:

   2/24/2011 at 7:14 am

   I like 3.1 a lot. The only thing I don’t like is that now I can’t choose to have my photo link open in a new tab.
5. DoktorThomas says:

   2/24/2011 at 7:41 am

   Ho-hum… another WordPress up-date.
   3.1 = fifty per cent failure rate with manual install.
   I’ll pass.
   Call me when the project is complete.
   • Chris (29 comments.) says:

     2/24/2011 at 11:17 am

     Wow, what an informed comment. Where are you getting your 50% failure rate stats? Merely from your own experience?
     • DoktorThomas says:

       2/27/2011 at 12:31 am

       And really ugly green buttons.

       Read some of the other comments. Not the only one finding problems with 3.1.

       Read it again; my comment says more than your skimmed read. My “mere experience” is 200+ WP sites. And, it clearly supports 3.0.5 as preferable.

       Where did you derive your comment, if it wasn’t merely from your experience?

       Did I mention really very ugly HUGE green buttons…
6. krispy (1 comments.) says:

   2/24/2011 at 7:58 am

   Nice new features – unfortunately 3.1 is bugged with a fatal error. For those with WP installs on windows servers, the 3.1 upgrade causes infinite re-forwards, and you cannot get into the front pages at all, bringing the sites down. It’s happened to MANY people, and even brand new clean installs of the 3.1 release go wrong with no edits or plugins installed (that’s a fresh install into windows environment).

   logged all over the wordpress support forum – no official response a day later.

   A temp fix is available – using a plugin “Permalink Fix & Disable Canonical Redirects Pack” which gets around the issue until the devs fix a massive problem.
7. Felix Ple?oianu (4 comments.) says:

   2/24/2011 at 9:34 am

   I’m in the “30 sec. upgrade with no issues” camp. Too bad the internal linking feature (which I was looking forward to) is only available from the visual editor, whereas I always work in HTML mode. Oh well. The admin bar and speed optimizations are very welcome.
   • Grant Palin (2 comments.) says:

     2/24/2011 at 11:16 pm

     Take a look at the Internal Link Shortcode plugin from Alex King. I haven’t tried it yet, but supposedly it extends the now built-in capability with some extra features.
8. Matt (6 comments.) says:

   2/24/2011 at 10:32 am

   Considering the amount of new tickets regarding WP3.1 in the support forums, it’s probably advisable to wait a few days to see how it really pans out.
9. Beth (1 comments.) says:

   2/24/2011 at 1:41 pm

   I completed a migration from single blogs to multi-site and upgraded to 3.1 last night. A few hitches with the migration, but none with the upgrade. It made things much easier as I had to change my base url after the migrations and 3.1 handles this so much more easily than 3.0.5. Or, maybe I found how to do it more easily in the new admin interface. Either way — it worked well.

   Still exploring, but so far, I’m in the 30 sec, upgrade with no issues” camp.
10. Lucky Today (3 comments.) says:

    2/24/2011 at 6:34 pm

    Admin interface do need a little boost (or my hosting is too slow perhaps?)

    I think I’ll wait till 3.2 but thinking about that 820 issues making me nervous for my present install:)
11. Angie (20 comments.) says:

    2/24/2011 at 8:13 pm

    Throughout history, each new release of WP has been buggy as hell. I suppose it was always meant to be a step forward but ended up being two step backwards. Everybody who’s been using WP for a while would know by now that upgrading to a new release when it is released is a bad idea. Best wait for the version that fixes it, or better yet, for the second one after.
12. gestroud says:

    2/24/2011 at 10:19 pm

    I’ve been using 3.1 since the first Release Candidate and haven’t experienced any problems except for a conflict with the text editors caused by using Google’s JS libraries (prototype, jquery),which is not WordPress’ fault. Once I removed the Google codes, everything worked well.
13. Fab (1 comments.) says:

    2/28/2011 at 9:13 am

    Just check the compatibility of your plugins before you install this update, some plugins are not working properly yet. If you still wanna try it, backup your website before doing anything