Yesterday my notebook was acting up and I could hardly work on a post so I decided to reformat. I was done with setting up everything around 2 am and I suddenly remembered I wanted to update this blog to WordPress 2.6..
Typical of me, I messed it up, my apologies to those who dropped by this blog early this morning. It was really messy and arggh I even accidentally deleted my blog directory links and I have no idea how to find those codes and links. And don’t think my carelessness stopped there, I deleted my wp-content folder which contains my theme. I was really in an awful mood and it made me even madder that I don’t have anyone to blame but myself.
But I am allowing myself some credit – I backed up my database. Lol! Everything is now back to normal after several hours of tweaking here and there. The truth is I didn’t sleep the whole night just to fix the mess I’ve made. My husband remarked I look like a zombie now. So I asked myself, is it worth the effort?
A big YES! Readers of course won’t notice a difference but I really appreciate this new version. What’s new ?
- Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time you edit it, allows you to view (not edit) each of those copies (revisions), Shows forward (in time) diffs between any two revisions. – isn’t this just awesome? I used to make post drafts with notepad so I could have different versions, but now I could do it right here.
- Display captions of images alongside them in posts and pages.
- Add paging of Themes in Design panel.
- Word Count displayed when writing and editing posts and pages. – this is a very functional feature, I’m sure most bloggers would agree..
- Press This bookmarklet
- Add sorting to gallery. – this is very much appreciated. Thank you, WP Ver. 2.6 developers.
- Export/import post excerpts
- Theme Previewer- – for bloggers who make a hobby out of changing themes this new feature is heaven sent.
- Check (assigned) Categories at top Category box in Write/Manage Post
- Show when a term is both a tag and a category
- Wider Profile fields
- TinyMCE 3.1
- Two categories can have sub-categories with the same name
Do upgrade now and experience a WordPress at its best. Installation instructions here. Follow them, if not, you’ll be like me, sleepless because of wordpress.
Good thing that u backed it up. Welcome back.Hope you can post and share the letter here.
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upgrading on your own is always the best, don’t rely on those plugins (if you would ask me)
WordPress 2.6 is really something to be upgraded to (although there’s a bug with the Image Caption) the backend is much faster because of google gears.
Care to link ex? Comment back nalang ehe
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I just updated my WP exactly three hours ago..after three years of blogging and few times of manual upgrading…I finally got the chance to use the recent Automatic Upgrade…hehehe saya! bilis..why didnt’ you use a plugin for that instead? Anyways, you did it your own…galing mo!
hi manilenya, i have automatic upgrade plugin installed but hehe i am getting a little senile, i forgot my ftp username and password so I did it manually..
hayy! its worth the effort though..
hi kevin, i havent tried the plugin so I can say which is better but yeah it may be exhaustive upgrading manually but it works
added you to my links.. thanks