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As already blogged by many others, WordPress 2.0 has reached release candidate 3. That means the WP folks are close to a final release. So, to get ready for the big day, I downloaded RC3 and upgraded my local test site to 2.0. It should be noted that this is still a Beta release, and shouldn’t be used on a live site yet. You also should backup everything before upgrading, including the db.
The admin pages seem essentially the same, except they got a bit of a makeover. I haven’t really dug into all there is yet, but there are a few things I noted right away. One minor thing I didn’t like out of the box was that the default post editor is of the WYSIWYG style. Thankfully there is an option to turn this off, and I did. A cool new feature is that the post preview now shows inside your actual theme/layout. This way you can see exactly how the post is going to look before you post. You could do this in 1.5, but it required an extra click and no one likes extra clicks.
The best part is that my recently new theme appears to work just fine. Good stuff.
Comments
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Its good to know that I’m remembered for being loud and obnoxious instead of the actual work I did.
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Does WordPress 2.0 require any database schema changes?
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There are some database changes, but I’m not sure what they all are. The upgrade process does the changes for you behind the scenes.
Comments on the WP support forum suggest that once you upgrade the db, you would not be able to downgrade to 1.5 easily, if at all.
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I can also safely say that importing a backup from a WP 1.5 db into a WP 2.0 db is NOT the best idea.
It wasn’t totally destructive, though. The number of comments on each post was zero and all the categories were missing. There may have been other things too, but that’s all I noticed.
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Unfortunately, neither version seems to currently work with PHP 5.1.1.
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Interesting.
Tommy
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 01:16:35 pm
Like post categories…..Yep, nerdish poswt alright……anything better to do yet than be nerdish?
You were being rememebered here in Chemtura Land today…..there is no longer a pitiful dresser with a loud voice roaming the 3rd floor..no yelling, screaming…..prettty boring….