Wordpress 3.1

Mike Hlatky · 02-23-2011, 06:30 PM

Anyone else enjoying the new features?

WordPress › WordPress 3.1, lots of fun

WordPress 3.1 Goes Live: Here's What's New

LarryHaywood · 02-23-2011, 06:33 PM

Just about to check that out now...

christopher jon · 02-23-2011, 06:55 PM

Not really jazzed up about it so far but I'm still digging through what's new.

Here is the complete list of updated features from WP.

KyleLogue · 02-23-2011, 07:37 PM

I noticed the new admin bar at the top of the screen that shows from the frontend when logged in. Not sure I like it though.

Christian Little · 02-23-2011, 08:35 PM

Just a FYI to everybody - if you login to your wordpress blogs you'll notice that 3.1 has been released.

I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT UPGRADE.

I tried upgrading our development server. Seemed to go fine, however the login form broke. So as soon as we logged out of wordpress, we couldn't log back in!

Luckily we had a full backup of the dev site and it's only seen by my staff, so no harm was done while the site was rendered somewhat useless for 20 mins.

Wait a few weeks until all the major bugs have been worked out before installing this patch. It seems way more experimental than usual. There's several blogs reporting that is actually breaks almost all the popular plugins.

Here's just a few examples of the problems people are having with this new release:

Common problems in WordPress 3.1 | sillybean.net
If Pages Return A 404 After WordPress 3.1 Upgrade | dre.im
wordpress 3.1 - How to fix broken upgrade to 3.1 - WordPress - Stack Exchange
Issue 358 - wp-e-commerce - Permalink problems in WordPress 3.1 - Project Hosting on Google Code

EDIT: Yes I realize people are posting solutions to the bugs already, but I'm actually quite angry that they've released an 'upgrade' which seems more like an unstable release.

Dexx · 02-23-2011, 08:48 PM

Isnt the general rule of thumb not to upgrade when updates come out for like a month after or so? =P

~Dexx

Christian Little · 02-23-2011, 08:51 PM

Depends. I've never had so many problems with a fresh wordpress patch, usually they're pretty good. Heck, 3.0 was really smooth and I didn't have any problems upgrading from 2.9 or even 2.8 to it.

Sam Thompson · 02-23-2011, 08:57 PM

eehhh haven't taken much notice so far will have to read through the list

Christophe Young · 02-23-2011, 10:05 PM

Just upgraded all seems to be OK. Would like to get rid of that Admin bar on my home page though. I checked the option in edit profile to remove it but it's still there on my site's home page when logged in.

Marketing Cheetah · 02-23-2011, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dexx

Isnt the general rule of thumb not to upgrade when updates come out for like a month after or so? =P

~Dexx

The release wasn't in beta mode

.

jrafique · 02-23-2011, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christian Little

Just a FYI to everybody - if you login to your wordpress blogs you'll notice that 3.1 has been released.

I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT UPGRADE.

I tried upgrading our development server. Seemed to go fine, however the login form broke. So as soon as we logged out of wordpress, we couldn't log back in!

Luckily we had a full backup of the dev site and it's only seen by my staff, so no harm was done while the site was rendered somewhat useless for 20 mins.

Wait a few weeks until all the major bugs have been worked out before installing this patch. It seems way more experimental than usual. There's several blogs reporting that is actually breaks almost all the popular plugins.

Here's just a few examples of the problems people are having with this new release:

Common problems in WordPress 3.1 | sillybean.net
If Pages Return A 404 After WordPress 3.1 Upgrade | dre.im
wordpress 3.1 - How to fix broken upgrade to 3.1 - WordPress - Stack Exchange
Issue 358 - wp-e-commerce - Permalink problems in WordPress 3.1 - Project Hosting on Google Code

EDIT: Yes I realize people are posting solutions to the bugs already, but I'm actually quite angry that they've released an 'upgrade' which seems more like an unstable release.

Thanks for the heads up man. I had problem in the past with updates as looks like my theme is not supporting the new updates after 3.0.

clickbump · 02-24-2011, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Hlatky

Anyone else enjoying the new features?

WordPress › WordPress 3.1, lots of fun

WordPress 3.1 Goes Live: Here's What's New

Great post Mike. I sent an email to my member's yesterday to let them know CE4 and CE4.1 beta are compatible with the new release and to talk about some of the new changes, and there are some significant ones for a "dot one" release

Likes:

Quote:

Updated Linking Tool

Really like the new Link tool options! The ability to select from any post, page, category or tag within your site with point-and-click was long overdue, but very welcome to see

Reduced clutter on the post editor
I'm a big fan of "screen options" which has been there since version 3 or earlier. It allows you to turn off lots of the boxes in the post and page editors that you never use. Things like "Author", "Post Revisions", "Custom Fields", "Send Trackbacks" etc..

Now that Wordpress has done this automatically, I expect many more people will start using "Screen Options" to streamline their workflow and that's a good thing. They might also discover that you can drag and drop the boxes and place them anywhere you like onscreen. For example, I like to drag the "publish" box just above my "SEO!" box for handy access.

Dislikes:

Quote:

New Floating "Admin" toolbar
I'm not crazy about the admin toolbar or the fact that you can't turn it off from the toolbar itself (as of the initial release).

Anyone wishing to turn the toolbar off needs to go to the "Users" manager then click on your username and then uncheck the options for "Show admin bar"

Wishlist for 3.1.1:

Quote:

Link attributes inspector
I would have really liked to have seen 3.1 go one step further with the enhanced linking tool to include a "link attributes" inspector. This would allow the content editor to easily manage things like nofollow, title, class, style, etc. while they are creating or editing links within content. I'm hoping they can get this into 3.1.1 or I'm going to code it in myself with my CE4.1 Beta release of my theme.

Add a "View/Close" option to the "Admin Bar"
It should be super easy to add a "View" menu to the new admin toolbar which will allow easier management of when the admin bar is displayed rather than having to go all the way into your user profile to change the settings.

Fernando Veloso · 02-24-2011, 06:19 AM

So far updated some sites and all good. Have to test it in DEV mode to see how my themes react to it.

Wish me luck. I probably need it.

BlondieWrites · 02-24-2011, 06:47 AM

I upgraded to Wordpress 3.1 on all of my blogs and it works great... no problems that I've noticed.

I especially like the new feature for push button internal linking. It'll save a load of time and help the SEO, plus help promote other blog posts even more.

I am sure there will be a bug or two as there usually are in a new Wordpress release. But this is the actual version of the release, not the beta, so I would say it's safe to upgrade.

Cindy

Zubair Zm · 02-24-2011, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christophe Young

Just upgraded all seems to be OK. Would like to get rid of that Admin bar on my home page though. I checked the option in edit profile to remove it but it's still there on my site's home page when logged in.

Click on user and uncheck "when viewing site"
regards
Zm

clickbump · 03-10-2011, 12:11 AM

One of the coolest new features of WordPress 3.1 (since 3.0 actually) is the "Custom Menu Manager". You can create what can best be described as a "Super Menu" consisting of any combination, order or nesting of "Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags, and External Links".

If you are reading this while viewing the actual Menu Manager in your WordPress dashboard and wondering, "I know he said Posts, but all I see are Pages, Categories and Tags, where the hell are the Posts?"

I've just posted a blog post/rant that shows you how to add posts to this interface if you happen to be looking for that:

WordPress Custom Menus*|*clickbump.com

Summer1 · 03-10-2011, 12:17 AM

I notice admin activities become very slow in the backend.

Though front end is not affected but editing, previewing become slower..

MoneyMonkey · 03-10-2011, 06:19 PM

I LOVE the new admin bar area which is a great addition. It just gives me more convenience to everything and it looks modern. Wordpress needs to keep bringing out minor features.

RoyChan · 03-10-2011, 07:16 PM

There is a noticeable effect on the speed of displaying the sites, after changing to 3.1

Or perhaps it's just me loading up too many plugins onto the control panel.

Focused Action · 03-10-2011, 08:18 PM

I upgraded and in the post section, i no longer have the custom settings option (i.e., set thumbnails, short-excerpt for a custom widget, etc.) - i searched everywhere i could and cant find an option to add back this section.

anyone else see this or have a fix. thanks.

rain21 · 03-11-2011, 02:54 AM

posting section has a good change in WP 3.1, i like it more than the other changes.

Focused Action · 03-11-2011, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Focused Action

I upgraded and in the post section, i no longer have the custom settings option (i.e., set thumbnails, short-excerpt for a custom widget, etc.) - i searched everywhere i could and cant find an option to add back this section.

anyone else see this or have a fix. thanks.

just discovered the very small, light grey, blend in to the upper right corner "Screen Options" tab - when posting you can click there for missing sections such as "custom field" "excerpts" etc.

warfore · 03-11-2011, 10:03 AM

I upgraded and generally liked the improvements. Ran into a problem when I was checking AWSTATS search queries and decided to investigate the keyword posts. Everthing seemed fine but several of my older posts with Amazon links were getting 404 errors (for the Amazon links). Further investigation indicated that almost all the Amazon links had 404 errors. It stumped me for a couple of days before I found out that the permalink structure needed to be updated. If you run into this error just update the options and it should work again.

02-23-2011, 06:30 PM	#1
Mike Hlatky Website Flipper War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 1,108 Thanks: 120 Thanked 304 Times in 199 Posts Contact Info	Wordpress 3.1 Anyone else enjoying the new features? WordPress › WordPress 3.1, lots of fun WordPress 3.1 Goes Live: Here's What's New

02-23-2011, 06:33 PM	#2
LarryHaywood HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 257 Thanks: 103 Thanked 31 Times in 31 Posts	Re: Wordpress 3.1 Just about to check that out now...

02-23-2011, 06:55 PM	#3
christopher jon El Conquistador Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 549 Thanks: 28 Thanked 172 Times in 121 Posts	Re: Wordpress 3.1 Not really jazzed up about it so far but I'm still digging through what's new. Here is the complete list of updated features from WP.

02-23-2011, 07:37 PM	#4
KyleLogue Designer/Author/Marketer Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 69 Thanks: 2 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts Social Networking	Re: Wordpress 3.1 I noticed the new admin bar at the top of the screen that shows from the frontend when logged in. Not sure I like it though.

02-23-2011, 08:35 PM	#5
Christian Little CEO of BoltWebHosting.com War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 526 Thanks: 53 Thanked 113 Times in 93 Posts Social Networking	WordPress 3.1 Released... Just a FYI to everybody - if you login to your wordpress blogs you'll notice that 3.1 has been released. I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT UPGRADE. I tried upgrading our development server. Seemed to go fine, however the login form broke. So as soon as we logged out of wordpress, we couldn't log back in! Luckily we had a full backup of the dev site and it's only seen by my staff, so no harm was done while the site was rendered somewhat useless for 20 mins. Wait a few weeks until all the major bugs have been worked out before installing this patch. It seems way more experimental than usual. There's several blogs reporting that is actually breaks almost all the popular plugins. Here's just a few examples of the problems people are having with this new release: Common problems in WordPress 3.1 \| sillybean.net If Pages Return A 404 After WordPress 3.1 Upgrade \| dre.im wordpress 3.1 - How to fix broken upgrade to 3.1 - WordPress - Stack Exchange Issue 358 - wp-e-commerce - Permalink problems in WordPress 3.1 - Project Hosting on Google Code EDIT: Yes I realize people are posting solutions to the bugs already, but I'm actually quite angry that they've released an 'upgrade' which seems more like an unstable release.

02-23-2011, 08:48 PM	#6
Dexx Offline Consultant War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,900 Thanks: 612 Thanked 613 Times in 318 Posts Social Networking	Re: WordPress 3.1 Released... Isnt the general rule of thumb not to upgrade when updates come out for like a month after or so? =P ~Dexx

02-23-2011, 08:51 PM	#7
Christian Little CEO of BoltWebHosting.com War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 526 Thanks: 53 Thanked 113 Times in 93 Posts Social Networking	Re: WordPress 3.1 Released... Depends. I've never had so many problems with a fresh wordpress patch, usually they're pretty good. Heck, 3.0 was really smooth and I didn't have any problems upgrading from 2.9 or even 2.8 to it.

02-23-2011, 08:57 PM	#8
Sam Thompson Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Perth, WA Posts: 53 Thanks: 4 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts Social Networking	Re: Wordpress 3.1 eehhh haven't taken much notice so far will have to read through the list

02-23-2011, 10:05 PM	#9
Christophe Young Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: San Francisco Posts: 617 Thanks: 55 Thanked 106 Times in 83 Posts Contact Info	Re: Wordpress 3.1 Just upgraded all seems to be OK. Would like to get rid of that Admin bar on my home page though. I checked the option in edit profile to remove it but it's still there on my site's home page when logged in.

02-24-2011, 06:19 AM	#13
Fernando Veloso Portuguese Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Good Old Europe Posts: 4,013 Blog Entries: 7 Thanks: 1,660 Thanked 1,054 Times in 705 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Wordpress 3.1 So far updated some sites and all good. Have to test it in DEV mode to see how my themes react to it. Wish me luck. I probably need it.

02-24-2011, 06:47 AM	#14
BlondieWrites Cynthia Thomas War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 267 Thanks: 357 Thanked 61 Times in 48 Posts Social Networking	Re: Wordpress 3.1 I upgraded to Wordpress 3.1 on all of my blogs and it works great... no problems that I've noticed. I especially like the new feature for push button internal linking. It'll save a load of time and help the SEO, plus help promote other blog posts even more. I am sure there will be a bug or two as there usually are in a new Wordpress release. But this is the actual version of the release, not the beta, so I would say it's safe to upgrade. Cindy

03-10-2011, 12:11 AM	#16
clickbump Scott Blanchard War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 757 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 124 Thanked 226 Times in 108 Posts Social Networking	Re: Wordpress 3.1 One of the coolest new features of WordPress 3.1 (since 3.0 actually) is the "Custom Menu Manager". You can create what can best be described as a "Super Menu" consisting of any combination, order or nesting of "Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags, and External Links". If you are reading this while viewing the actual Menu Manager in your WordPress dashboard and wondering, "I know he said Posts, but all I see are Pages, Categories and Tags, where the hell are the Posts?" I've just posted a blog post/rant that shows you how to add posts to this interface if you happen to be looking for that: WordPress Custom Menus\|clickbump.com

03-10-2011, 12:17 AM	#17
Summer1 HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 129 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Wordpress 3.1 I notice admin activities become very slow in the backend. Though front end is not affected but editing, previewing become slower..

03-10-2011, 06:19 PM	#18
MoneyMonkey HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK Posts: 142 Thanks: 14 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Wordpress 3.1 I LOVE the new admin bar area which is a great addition. It just gives me more convenience to everything and it looks modern. Wordpress needs to keep bringing out minor features.

03-10-2011, 07:16 PM	#19
RoyChan HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: China Posts: 367 Thanks: 30 Thanked 46 Times in 23 Posts Social Networking	Re: Wordpress 3.1 There is a noticeable effect on the speed of displaying the sites, after changing to 3.1 Or perhaps it's just me loading up too many plugins onto the control panel.

03-10-2011, 08:18 PM	#20
Focused Action HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 463 Thanks: 67 Thanked 72 Times in 59 Posts	Re: Wordpress 3.1 I upgraded and in the post section, i no longer have the custom settings option (i.e., set thumbnails, short-excerpt for a custom widget, etc.) - i searched everywhere i could and cant find an option to add back this section. anyone else see this or have a fix. thanks.

03-11-2011, 02:54 AM	#21
rain21 I'm the Apophis Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Russia Posts: 702 Thanks: 12 Thanked 29 Times in 28 Posts Social Networking	Re: Wordpress 3.1 posting section has a good change in WP 3.1, i like it more than the other changes.

03-11-2011, 10:03 AM	#23
warfore HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Maryland USA Posts: 270 Thanks: 126 Thanked 20 Times in 19 Posts	Re: Wordpress 3.1 I upgraded and generally liked the improvements. Ran into a problem when I was checking AWSTATS search queries and decided to investigate the keyword posts. Everthing seemed fine but several of my older posts with Amazon links were getting 404 errors (for the Amazon links). Further investigation indicated that almost all the Amazon links had 404 errors. It stumped me for a couple of days before I found out that the permalink structure needed to be updated. If you run into this error just update the options and it should work again.