Comments on: Upgrade to WordPress 2.2 Successful!

By: Dirk

Dirk — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:55:35 +0000

What a nightmare! At the end of the day (and a fresh wp2.2 install later) it turned out to be a problem with Slickr plugin. Still some work to do but biggest challenge is to get UTW (and Slickr) back to work.

Take care.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:13:34 +0000

Charity: My pleasure!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:13:05 +0000

Dirk: Yes, I deleted the wp-admin folder (as the instructions tell you to). Quite a few files changed names and locations, hence why the recommendation was to delete and re-upload, rather than simply over-writing stuff.

It sounds to me like perhaps the files didn’t upload correctly - so it might be worth trying again. Did you run the upgrade.php script before trying to use it?

By: Dirk

Dirk — Sat, 19 May 2007 20:03:27 +0000

Hi Paul,

Hope you had a good day today.

Did you delete your wp-admin folder prior to the upgrade? I’m asking because after my upgrade, my new-post.php and new-page.php (in the Dashboard) did not work properly - I got a 404 page of my blog in the upload area. I’m glad I did a full backup -as instructed- and now back to 2.1.2. Any idea whether it would matter if I would leave the wp-admin folder intact and then upgrade?

Thanks and take care.

By: Charity

Charity — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:34:20 +0000

Hey thanks for posting that link! I tried a top commenters plugin about a week ago but it just refused to work (can’t recall the name). I’ve been meaning to look into some other plugins of that variety but haven’t got around to it yet. You just saved me some time thanks!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 19 May 2007 11:27:25 +0000

Sure thing Jon! I’m running ‘Show Top Commentators’ by Nate Sanden. You’ll find it here: http://www.pfadvice.com/wordpress-plugins/show-top-commentators.

Thanks for dropping by!

By: Jon Holato

Jon Holato — Sat, 19 May 2007 06:43:25 +0000

Hey Paul,

I upgraded mine to 2.2 last week as well and like you didn’t run into too many problems. The one big irritation was that my top commentators plugin stopped working. However, I see that yours seems to be working fine. Might I ask which one you’re using?

Thanks in advance!

By: Charity

Charity — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:05:58 +0000

I upgraded yesterday as well, along with my sandbox blog which runs on a separate db under the same domain. Ran into some really weird trouble with both of them, and had some files just up and disappear. I still don’t know what to make of it. I managed to smooth things out only to find my site down again this morning.

I’m running UTW and the contact form as well, but I was careful to disable all plugins as directed. (I learned that lesson the hard way about a year ago.) I ended up finally having to use the one-click upgrade feature provided by my host to fix everything, and it worked like a charm. All I could do then was attribute it to user error! Anyway I’m rambling sorry. My point is I feel your pain Paul! I keep thinking I should be getting better at these upgrades (this being about my 4th one) but it seems like every time something goes wrong.

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:02:06 +0000

Thanks Paul. I did some searching myself at WordPress but only found a couple of references and the threads terminated with nothing of value so it was a dead end. It’s a strange issue. I will be keeping my ears open.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:55:24 +0000

Mike: I’ve now gone through a complete de-activation of other plugins, and I get the same failure - even with just yours active! I’m pretty sure it’s not your plugin though, as I found references online to similar errors connected to PHPNuke, OS Commerce etc.

I’ve tried to play with line 282. I believe that it’s something new in the code, and I also believe that there’s a typo somewhere on the line (to do with variables named with and without $) or just before (to do with the preg matching). I’m not good enough at PHP to debug something like that without context - and that takes time I haven’t got at the moment!

It could be that something in this theme is triggering the issue, or it may be something to do with the way my server is configured. Either would explain why I’m the first to have the fault.

Don’t worry about it for now (unless you want to report it to WP). I’ll make do with raw email until 2.2.1 comes out.

For anyone else reading this, the issue is not the fault of the plugin - which is superb, highly flexible, and definitely worth installing on your blog!