Upgraded to WP 2.1 Ella

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1. Alex (1 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 3:03 pm

   I already have upgraded to wp 2.1. I too am impressed with the new wysiwyg editor and the ability to switch to “code” view via a tab.
2. João Craveiro (9 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 3:22 pm

   Oh, thanks, but it was just a matter of luck for not having used any template tags that were changed. Heck, my own weblog’s theme’s go ruined with WordPress 2.1, how proficient is that?
3. Natasha (1 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 4:52 pm

   I just upgraded as well and so far so good
4. Pi (9 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 5:08 pm

   I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 on the first day, and encountered many problems, one of which is still unresolved and appears to have no resolution, since no one has an answer to my query in the forum.

   As to the spellchecker, does it work? I purposefully built in errors such as ‘peice’ and ‘writen’ and it failed to find them.
5. Jason (75 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 5:46 pm

   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
6. Jonathan Dobres (5 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 7:14 pm

   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.
7. Alistair (5 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 7:25 pm

   Mine was smooth as silk
   
8. Alpesh Nakar (5 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 7:57 pm

   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
9. trev (1 comments.) says:

   1/28/2007 at 8:17 pm

   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.
10. Joan (1 comments.) says:

    1/28/2007 at 9:59 pm

    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 :).
11. GaMerZ (8 comments.) says:

    1/28/2007 at 10:03 pm

    nice job there Mark
12. Lolak (1 comments.) says:

    1/28/2007 at 10:44 pm

    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
13. Daz Cox (1 comments.) says:

    1/28/2007 at 10:47 pm

    Did it on the first day and it seems fine, but I am still quite new to WP.
14. Mike Abundo (1 comments.) says:

    1/28/2007 at 11:33 pm

    That UTW patch doesn’t work on trackbacks.
15. Jenny (2 comments.) says:

    1/29/2007 at 12:51 am

    i upgraded on the first day. since i have fantastico xD its pretty nifty.
16. Mike Baptiste (1 comments.) says:

    1/29/2007 at 1:01 am

    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.
17. Bruce -- Harper Blue (1 comments.) says:

    1/29/2007 at 4:23 am

    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.)
18. Jane (5 comments.) says:

    1/29/2007 at 11:28 am

    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.
19. Jan Stedehouder says:

    1/29/2007 at 1:59 pm

    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?
20. Josh (1 comments.) says:

    1/29/2007 at 6:57 pm

    I would love to upgrade however my host (godaddy) has mysql 3.23 installed.
21. Matt (64 comments.) says:

    1/31/2007 at 2:50 pm

    Very much looking forward to seeing the benchmarks you find.
22. gianmoenia (1 comments.) says:

    1/31/2007 at 6:06 pm

    Maybe tomorrow
23. Jose (2 comments.) says:

    2/21/2007 at 4:34 am

    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.

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