The WordPress folks have released the newest version of the popular blogging platform, Version 2.3 “Dexter”. They named it after saxophonist Dexter Gordon. How appropriate that they would name it after a man that blew for a living.
Version 2.3 blows.
The new version does away with Categories and instead incorporates the use of “Tags”. Too bad these royally farks up just about every plugin and every theme available for WordPress. My normal theme will no longer work. Most of my favorite plugins now produce database errors. Even the default WordPress theme was producing errors.
If I didn’t know any better, I would guess that the people of MovableType helped with the development of this new version of WordPress. This new version makes changing over to MovableType look like a good idea. Granted, none of my favorite plugins work with MovableType, but they aren’t working with WordPress now either.
“does away with Categories” - incorrect. Categories are still there.
“Even the default WordPress theme was producing errors.” - would that be the default theme for 2.3 or for 2.2.x? I would assume you did not overwrite your wp-content folder, so you are keeping the old default theme. In my tests the default theme in 2.3 works fine.
So I guess it’s your plugins that blow. I’m sure most of them will have new versions very soon.
Jason, the new version of WordPress did away with three WP tables - categories, post2cat, and link2cat. Every error I tried to deal with last night and early this morning had to do with something trying to call on the wp_categories table.
I didn’t even have the default theme in the theme directory before upgrading. I never used it so I removed it a while back.
The plugins all worked before the upgrade.
Ah! I see. That does suck.
But it is weird that your the new WP 2.3 default theme doesn’t work. It worked fine on my test install of WP2.3
Check the homepages of all the plugins you’re using. There’s a lot that already work with 2.3 and others being updated. Of course there’s always those “orphan” plugins who’s developers have disappeared.
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