Posts Tagged ‘WordPress 2.5’

WP 2.5 and Automatic Plugin Upgrades

I’ve upgraded numerous plugins recently and not had an issue. However, this morning I was attempting to upgrade cforms and a few of Lester Chan’s plugins and they failed.

Unfortunately I also discovered that when the automatic plugin upgrade fails, it removes the plugin completely from the list of available plugins….and also deletes the directory. Now this obviously wouldn’t have been an issue if the plugin upgrade hadn’t failed, but since it did, it means that now I’ve got to manually download the plugin, and then ftp it to my server.

If this is going to be a major issue with automatic plugin upgrades, then I may just stop using the automatic upgrade feature altogether. Could it be that the plugins themselves are not setup properly for automatic upgrade?

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Published
April 13th, 2008
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Upgraded To WordPress 2.5

If you haven’t found out by now, WordPress 2.5 has been released.  It includes a bunch of new stuff in the admin area including, automatic upgrades for plugins, media gallery, upload music, pics, and video, and tons of other changes.  You can read more about the features in WordPress 2.5 here.

I’ve been testing the plugin upgrade functionality, and I have to say that it works just fine.  I’ve upgraded 5 sites to WordPress 2.5 in the last hour and upgraded every plugin that needed it.  No problems here.

I’ll be going through my themes to make sure that all everything works ok, but so far on my test server, there doesn’t seem to be any issues.

If you haven’t upgraded yet, then head on over to WordPress.org and do so.  You won’t regret it.

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Published
March 29th, 2008
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