Indecisive Me

As much as I love change, I don’t like it when it comes too often. Specially on things like Wordpress. One of the reasons that kept me away from updating here and my other blog is because I wanted to wait until I was able to update to the new Wordpress version. I know it is not that hard to update but for some reason, some thing always goes wrong with mine! So, I decided to wait it out for a bit and see what new version they would come up with.

When I had a spare time, I decided to try out the new version. I was quite pleased with the new interface so I decided that it might actually be time to update already. Right now, I am not seeing any problems with this installation. Not that I am hoping to see one or anything.

Anyway, if you own a Wordpress blog and you are running on the latest version.. I wanna know what you think! So please feel free to give me some feedback. Thanks!

Now.

I have somewhat successfully updated my blog into Wordpress 2.6.1!
It only took me about ten minutes to do it.
As usual, I did a backup by exporting all my entries and also exporting mySQL database.
I was expecting a lot more trouble because that’s what the upgrades usually entail.
However, I was disappointed since the only thing that went wrong was the moving of files within my FTP.
The wp-includes folder and its content was not successfully moved into my wordpress folder while I was transferring the file.
So, I had to try and move it again and thankfully, I only had to do it once!
Went to the upgrade link and pressed upgrade, waited for a while, and everything is fine again!
How exciting. I might as well update my other blogs while I think I know what I’m doing.

I also updated my Akismet and Easytube plugin.
Keeping my fingers crossed that a new Wordpress version won’t be launched to soon again!

::edit::

I tried installing the nested comments plugin and I can’t seem to make it work with this theme that I am currently using. It only seems to work if I delete the Related Post code. However, I am not willing to do this since this is a feature of my blog that actually helps visitor find other posts of interest here in my blog. I guess I have to wait around and see if I could find a more compatible plugin.

This new theme is the sole reason why I upgraded to Wordpress 2.6!
I was really hesitant because all my other upgrades have just been plain disastrous.
First of all, if you are not using the last version before the new version the upgrade instructions would not work properly.
My blog was on version 2.5 before I performed the upgrade.
Now, if you have followed through with Wordpress development you know that there is a 2.5.1 that came out before 2.6.
Anyway, let me point out the main flaw first.

If you follow the three step upgrade from the Wordpress.org site, it would tell you that you just need to copy the wp-admin and wp-includes folder into your old installation. However it would not be as simple since you would probably encounter missing file errors as Wordpress tries to execute itself.
Fix: Copy everything except the wp-content folder.
Wp-content folder contains your plugins and themes so you might want to leave this alone unless you are really doing a blog overhaul.
This folder might also contain some of the images or media that you have posted in your blog entries so be careful in deleting or overwriting it.

There is a bug with the Permalink structure for 2.6!
What this means is that if you used to have a “pretty permalink,” you might have to settle for the one that has “index.php” in front… pretty much what happened here in my blog.
Now, if you don’t know what a permalink is then you don’t have anything to worry about.
For those affected, Wordpress 2.6.1 should be the fix. Argh! Another update?!

Backup! Backup! Backup!
If you still do not know what that means, you might be in trouble if you mess up your blog like I did.
You can either do an export from your Wordpress control panel or use a backup plugin.
Do not forget to backup your SQL just in case something undesirable happens.

Anywho, I loved this new theme enough to suffer through another Wordpress upgrade.

While I was going through the headlines in my Wordpress dashboard, I have seen this headline: WordCamp Philippines Is On. So, just a heads up to my fellow Filipino bloggers, here’s more information about that.

When: September 6, 2008
Where: Manila, Philippines

Here’s the link to the post on Weblog Tools. I know that a lot of bloggers would be looking forward to attend this event. It’s quite interesting how they are encouraging people to bring their laptops and have the latest version (hopefully it’s still 2.5.1) installed or upgraded.

Anyways, since I know for sure that I would not be there… all I can do is encourage my fellow bloggers to support this event. So yeah, go spread the word!