Spent some time this morning to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 for my blogging software - shouldn’t be any obvious issues, but let me know if you see any problems reading articles. (I am using this post as a test to make sure everything is set up, so feel free to ignore this :) )

Not so bad to upgrade, but a couple of key things:

  • The documentation says to use the Maintenance Mode plugin while you upgrade - don’t! It doesn’t appear to be compatible with 2.5 yet, so it was blocking my access to upgrade.php which you need to run to update the database. I had to hack the script to turn it off from running to get through.
  • Most of my plugins work - the only one with problems is Popularity Contest (I use this to track which articles people read most) - it had a Fatal Error. Apparently I am not the only one - see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164349 for more.  (Update: the fix at http://blog.evaria.com/2008/wp-plugins-1-fix-and-1-update/ works great!)
  • What is annoying is that while the plugins work, a lot of them make you go through and re-click save options to get them to kick in again after the deactivate/activate cycle. While not a big deal, it does make you figure out the new dashboard a little quicker than I would have thought of.
  • Set up automatic backups as part of this - BackupWordPress is a fantastic plugin for this - well recommended.
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