Comments on: Have You Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1?

By: Calvin

Calvin — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:30:38 +0000

Hi there,

erm.. is it really that scary?? Gosh.. I was intending to upgrade tomorrow.. Is there any particular plugins that might cause problems? So if after I upgrade and there’s a problem and I can’t solve it, is there a way I can downgrade?

Erm.. I know that sounds stupid.. So how to do a backup? Just cut and paste the entire blog folders?

By: Aen

Aen — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:23:22 +0000

Just upgraded to WP2.1.2 this afternoon, after learning about the security issues affecting 2.1.1. You should do it ASAP too.
Again ran into memory problems during the upgrade as I forgot to disable my plugins. I learned that… If that happens, what you can do is to backup your plugins folder, delete it from the server and reupload and reactivate a few at a time.

By: Rachit

Rachit — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:32:00 +0000

I upgraded one of my blogs to Wordpress 2.1 … ummm, it didn’t go so well!

I run a lot of plugins, and one of them was crashing things. It finally took about 4-5 hours of debugging in php’s to find the one that was causing the problem.

My advice, don’t take the upgrade lightly. Set aside one whole night for it. So, if things go wrong, you have a couple of hours to fix it.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:50:49 +0000

I’ve been running on 2.1 for a while now. I was aprehensive about first upgrading from 2.0.4 simply because it was my first change-over. Everything worked fine after the 10 minute process however, and it was those stories of hacking that finally prompted the switch.

I back up your sentiment Andrew, don’t wait until you’re hacked before upgrading.

By: Aen

Aen — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:28:30 +0000

I upgraded about a week after the release of Ella. Like you I have a lot of plugins and an initial trip to the compatibility list indicated around half of my plugins were not good for 2.1.

I wanted to experience the better efficiency of the upgrade and the new features as soon as I can, so I spend the 1st few days week doing up a list of plugins to be upgraded. Those that can be upgraded, I upgrade, those I cannot, I look for alternatives. By shopping for alternate plugins, it means I have to tweak my theme, which was a chore but it turned out that I also discovered plugins which I really like but never used before.

Luckily I avoided deprecated code in my themes so the tweaking wasn’t too tedious. The codex and support forums helped a lot.

Here’s an account of my upgrade process if you are interested.
http://aendirect.com/2007/01/24/upgraded-to-wordpress-21/