Wordpress 2.8 Upgrade a Mess

[Diane S]

Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet

I always suggest for people to wait because you have no idea what is lurking around in wordpress. It also seems wordpress is more and more not being able to support older browsers which is going to cause many people problems.

If you are having trouble with drag and drop then it is probably the browser you are using. I do not know this, just a guess... I have not installed 2.8 yet and will wait a bit before I do. I know with 2.7 it has browser issues so I would expect 2.8 to have the same..

James

Excellent advice for us all, James! Procrastination pays in this case!

[kkchoon]

You need to skip the Google Gear, or the post editor will not work well...

[Barry Walls]

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Just tried it in Explorer ... I normally use Firefox. As for the upgrade, it was done with WpAutomatic Upgrade, so the plugins were disabled first. Explorer is the same problem ... the widgets simply don't drag ... they don't drop. They don't open to edit or do anything.

I thought it might be the theme, but I remembered that I upgraded one other blog the other day and I just checked and it has the same problem. Widgets just don't work at all and it's a Woo theme and the other is an Elegant theme.

Naturally, I didn't click on save when doing the upgrade to save the database, etc. Where would a copy of that be located .... anyone know where WP Automatic Upgrade saves a copy?

Click "ADD" and they will be added to your sidebar. You choose the position with a drop down box once there.

[sbucciarel]

Originally Posted by Barry Walls

Click "ADD" and they will be added to your sidebar. You choose the position with a drop down box once there.

In 2.8, there is no ADD. You just drag and drop them to the desired sidebar. Only in mine, they did not drag or drop. No response at all. Also, when I went to plugins, and tried to click the box that should have selected all the plugins at one time, again .... no response. I had to select them all one at a time to deactivate them.

See Widget Screenshot Here: http://twitterbrick.com/images/widget.jpg marked in red with all the areas that do not respond. This is the other site using a Woo Theme that I upgraded that has the same problem. I was done designing this site, so I haven't downgraded it yet.

[Barry Walls]

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

In 2.8, there is no ADD. You just drag and drop them to the desired sidebar. Only in mine, they did not drag or drop. No response at all. Also, when I went to plugins, and tried to click the box that should have selected all the plugins at one time, again .... no response. I had to select them all one at a time to deactivate them.

See Widget Screenshot Here: http://twitterbrick.com/images/widget.jpg marked in red with all the areas that do not respond. This is the other site using a Woo Theme that I upgraded that has the same problem. I was done designing this site, so I haven't downgraded it yet.

Here it is

attached

[Barry Walls]

stuff does seem to be arbitrarily dissappearing for no reason. I cant get my wysiwyg editor to display in one of my blogs while its appearing in other fine.

PS - I cant drag and drop either

[sbucciarel]

Originally Posted by Barry Walls

Here it is

attached

Well, that's interesting. As you can see from my screenshot, mine doesn't have ADD
http://twitterbrick.com/images/widget.jpg

[Barry Walls]

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Well, that's interesting. As you can see from my screenshot, mine doesn't have ADD
http://twitterbrick.com/images/widget.jpg

Yeah...mine are totally out of whack with each other. Wont be upgrading so fast again.

[Breeze7]

Does anyone know how to resolve this error?:

Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/growingp/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787

I'm a wordpress newbie. Just put this site up in March. On Tuesday I did an auto upgrade from 2.7.1 to 2.8. Everything seems to work fine except I get the above error showing in a sidebar widget. If I remove the widget the error just moves to another sidebar widget.

I disabled all the plugins and re-ran the auto install, but nothing changed.

I followed another suggestion from someone and downloaded another http.php file and overwrote the current one, but that made no change.

Someone suggested a manual install, but I hesitate, because I've never done that and would hate to mess things up worse!

Any suggestions or if someone can point me to easy-to-follow manual upgrade instructions I would appreciate it! - Thanks, Benda

[Martin Luxton]

I'm working with a WP designer on a new theme and I deleted the few posts and images I had in 2.7 and we started with 2.8 from scratch.

We only have a few vital plugins that are proven to work with 2.8.

So far, no problems. Even embedding video was easy.

It's still under design, but functioning well.

Martin

[Barry Walls]

Mines working perfectly now...I didnt do anything to it....it fixed itself

[David_Thompson]

So far the only really big changes I've seen is the plugin area
its a little different and works a bit different than b4 but wp
is way to awesome not to update man..

I think its just getting use to things...

--David

[ppc4profit]

When you have a Wordpress site you have a code combination of
1. the core Wordpress files produced by the development team and
2. the Plugins you adopt, produced by whichever authors you use.

Wordpress is a fantastic platform as it allows Plugins to 'hook' into the core code operation and become part of the implementation. If you stand back and think of this this is a recipe for potential disaster on the release of the next core code update and a source of many of the upgrade problems.

The Wordpress development team always release a beta version and this is supposed to be used by Plugin authors to check compatibility. It gives them the chance to update their code to ensure that it works with the upcoming Wordpress release. Some Plugin authors update their Plugins very quickly, some are not so quick. Sometimes they react quickly but, due to the code issues, it could take them a while to update their Plugin code.

When you decide to update your Wordpress installation on the 2.X.0 release you could be opting into Plugin testing!

Whilst the administration panel has that nice message saying your installation is out of date and you should update this is not a good idea with a live operational site.

Check that all your Plugins are compatible with the new version before you take action.

Have a 'dummy' site in a sub-domain mirroring your main web platform and test this with the upgrade before you inflict it on your main site.

Check the new functionality offered in the new update. Is it addressing major security issues or just offering better visuals. If it is the latter then wait for the next bug fix, 2.X.1, and allow the Plugin authors to react to the large number of support requests that they receive from the other unwitting 'Plugin testers'.

[sbucciarel]

Geeesh ... just tried to post to the other blog that I had upgraded and I can only put in a title ... no post. Going to downgrade this one now and forget about 2.8

[frenchbruce]

Phew..we have just been caught by the Word press version 2.8 mess...and the more you try and straighten it out the worse it becomes....its actually a small disaster..that has let the WP group down. This latest version should not have been released until some of the underlying problems with the previous version were sorted.
Several demerit points WP!!!

[Amanti Code]

jump into the wordpress forum, you'll find some answers there

[zulu24]

I am so glad you posted this! I have been having problems with my plugins. I have tried everything and still not working. Just about ready to tear my hair out. Really appreciate the posts. I am glad to hear that going back to wordpress 2.7.1 was great and everything is working. I will take the same steps myself. Thanks again.

[zulu24]

Thanks to all the posts I am using wordpress 2.7.1 instead of the 2.8. All my plugins work. There are no problems with this version, at least not compared to those I had with the 2.8. It is easy to use and functions.