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June 12, 2006
Upgrade Attempt – Part 2
Later this week (or over the weekend) I will try to upgrade my WordPress and Gallery2 installs (again). I tell you this because as you may recall, I had trouble doing this last time and it took quite a bit of effort to restore the site to it’s former glory. In the event of another blog-out please remain calm. The site will return to it’s upright and locked position…opps, wrong speach. Anyway, I hope to have better luck this time. If not, then it will have to wait until I move to the other hosting company (which I’m not eqager to do).
Also, the site may be down next weekend (June 24th) as my current hosting company is migrating my site to a new serving platform.
I found a couple *really* annoying problems with WordPress 2.0.3, editing comments and links. Any ‘ or ” characters in say, an edited comment got updated as ‘ and “. After much aggravation and searching I found this link with a plug-in to “fix” the 2.0.3 quirks:
http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-203-tuneup/
Downloading and installing the plug-in after getting 2.0.3 up and running might save you a little grief.
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[…] After several failed attempts to update WordPress and Gallery2 and my failed attempt to migrate my site to new servers, I decided to be a little more meticulous about the whole process and carefully review all my settings and plugins and stuff to ensure a smooth transition before attempting any more major changes. One area of concern has been plugins. I have, over time, installed several plugins. Some work wonderfully, others have not. Unfortunately, I haven’t cleaned house for a while and so there are remnants of abandoned plugins within my wordpress files. As I tried to deactivate and uninstall some of these abandoned plugins, I discovered how many little pieces where floating around my site. […]