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Anybody else having trouble upgrading Wordpress to 2.7?

by ecoverartist
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I upgraded to WP 2.7 over the weekend, now everything is munged up. People can post comments, but when I try to reply it reads "Undefined". WP keeps telling me to upgrade to 2.7 when I already am, and trying to upgrade my plugins says "domain lookup failure" - although both wordpress.org and my site are online.

What the heck is going on?
#trouble #upgrading #wordpress #wordpress 2.7 upgrade
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  • Profile picture of the author patfl
    Maybe it's one of your plugin that messes things up...

    Try to inactivate them to see how things go.

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  • Profile picture of the author ecoverartist
    Here's what my control panel says:

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  • Profile picture of the author ecoverartist
    Stupid rotten plugins... Had an Ajax one that was munging things up!
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    • Profile picture of the author rwil02
      Originally Posted by ecoverartist View Post

      Stupid rotten plugins... Had an Ajax one that was munging things up!
      Was going to be my first guess, since "undefined" is a common javascript term for "you haven't put anything in this variable yet".
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  • Profile picture of the author ecoverartist
    Yep.. so if anyone else is using the Ajax commenting plugin, it doesn't seem to work with the new version of Wordpress just yet (or maybe its redundant anyway!)
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      Originally Posted by ecoverartist View Post

      Yep.. so if anyone else is using the Ajax commenting plugin, it doesn't seem to work with the new version of Wordpress just yet (or maybe its redundant anyway!)

      a lot of plugins will be redundant...
      sometimes it takes a while for plugin authors to catch up with all the newest versions of WP.

      glad you got your problem sorted out
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  • Profile picture of the author KathyK
    A number of plugins don't seem to work with 2.7 yet.

    I'm waiting to upgrade my client's sites until more plugins get updated. I've been running a test site with the beta (now upgraded to the 'real' 2.7) and have seen a lot of white screens.

    P.S. - if you get one of those - just ftp in, go to your plugins folder, and rename plugins till you can see the site again. (That's if you re-activated all your plugins at once. One at a time is safer, so you know what's blowing things up.)
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    is 2.7 any good?
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  • Profile picture of the author ecoverartist
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      Wordpress 2.7 is really slick. The best feature is that you no longer need a plugin or anything to upgrade to the next version. There is just a link to click. How simple!

      The dashboard has a whole new look. You can basically drag and move things around, it's easier to navigate, I think it's faster, and they fixed some stuff that wasn't working right.

      It does take a little getting used to but all in all, I think that WordPress 2.7 is fantastic. Of course, the WP dev team is already working on 2.8 but it will mostly be security upgrades from now on I would hazard to guess, which I think are important.

      FYI, it is rarely a WordPress theme that will cause you grief when you upgrade. More often than not, an incompatible plugin will likely be the cause of any errors you get when upgrading. The quick fix is to deactivate all plugins, and then re-activate them one by one until you find the plugin that's bad.

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