WordPress announced the (early) release of the latest version 2.6 today. I’ve upgraded this site without too many problems at all.
It is worth noting that Alex King’s Link Harvest plugin triggered fatal errors when I re-activated my plugins after the upgrade. I haven’t looked into this too deeply yet and I’ve not yet looked for a patch for this and don’t know if Alex is aware of any issues w/ 2.6 – but will keep my eye out.
It is also worth noting that even with this 2.6 upgrade, I still require the .htaccess fix in order to successfully utilize the flash-based image uploader. I posted about this issue when 2.5 first came out (Although, you can now toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic browser-based uploader when attempting to upload media files… without any plugin enhancements, I should add. The toggle is built into the core for those of you having difficulties with the Flash uploader).
Plugins I have currently installed on this blog that I have confirmed are working just fine and dandy (are compatible with) with 2.6:
- Advanced Category Excluder by Zsolt Lakatos (DjZoNe)
- Code Auto-Escape by Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo.
- Contact Form-7 by Takayuki Miyoshi.
- Daikos Text Widget by Rune Fjellheim.
- Download Counter by Andy Staines
- Feedburner Feedsmith by Steve Smith
- Get Recent Comments by Krischan Jodies.
- Google XML Sitemap by Arne Brachhold.
- Ozh’s Better Feed by Ozh
- Post Teaser by WeyHan Ng.
- Random Quotes by Dustin Barnes.
- Related Entries by Nick Momrick
- Remove Max Width by Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.
- Share This by ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com).
- Sideblog WordPress Plugin by Kates Gasis.
- Subscribe To Comments by Mark Jaquith
- TTF Titles by John Leavitt.
- Twitter Tools by Alex King
- Ultimate Google Analytics by Wilfred van der Deijl.
- Woopra by Woopra
- WordBook by Robert Tsai.
- WordPress.Com Stats by Andy Skelton.
- WordPress Automatic Upgrade by Keith Dsouza.
- WP Page Navi by Lester Chan
- WP Post Views by Lester Chan
- WP UserOnline by Lester Chan
- WP List Cal by Jonathan Kern.
- WPtouch by Dale Mugford & Duane Storey.
- Yahoo/MSN Smileys by Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo.
I won’t re-iterate all of the great changes in this new version of WordPress – - Matt did a damn fine job of that himself on the WordPress Development Blog 2.6 announcement post – go have a read to learn all about the fantastic new editions and upgrades to your favorite blogging platform.
He did provide a great video for your viewing, and learning, pleasure:
Pressin’ on….
Good luck with it.
10:27 pm on July 14th, 2008
I’ve upgraded my blog also with no issues (so far). Mostly because I’ve abandoned a lot of Alex King’s plugins since he’s way too busy to support them now-a-days. Now on to upgrading my own plugins to support the movable wp-config.php and wp-content feature
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10:51 pm on July 14th, 2008
Good to hear your upgrade went off without any problems. As for Link Harvest… gotta give those plugin devs a break – they work hard. Alex is too busy because his work is well used by the community
He’s usually pretty good about releasing upgrades when things break with new WP releases.
I like the movable wp-content and wp-config feature, too – - hawt!
11:53 pm on July 14th, 2008
@Lisa
That might’ve came out wrong. I’m not speaking bad about Alex, he does great work and is a great guy. That’s the reason why he is so busy! I am a plugin dev myself, so I totally understand. It’s just a bit relieving right now for me to not have to depend so much on his plugins.
11:58 pm on July 14th, 2008
Completely agreed, Thaya – - I try not to depend on plugins, as much as is possible within the scope of my own abilities.
If I had my way.. WordPress would build all of my favorite ‘must have’ plugins into the core just to keep me happy. haha
3:22 am on July 15th, 2008
I too have implemented this new Wordpress 2.6 successfully indeed! It is working great.
4:10 am on July 15th, 2008
Has anyone experienced any login issues due the upgrade? It seems that I can’t login even after I’ve reset my password up to 3 times so far. First time this ever happens!
7:10 am on July 15th, 2008
Wow, quite a few changes since I was last here, Lisa. Good ones at that!
I hope you’ve been keeping well lately.
10:25 am on July 15th, 2008
@Jessica – good to hear!
@Kareem – I haven’t had any login issues at all, can’t say that I’ve heard of any from anyone else either. Sorry you’re having troubles
@David – Hoping all is well on your side of the pond, too! It was way past time for changes around here…thanks for your words
12:31 pm on July 15th, 2008
It’s all good now, I had to patch “wp-login.php” and “pluggable.php” and it’s got back to normal. Now I’d really appreciate it if someone hands me over WordPress 7 to feel some brand new stuff to cover the inconvenience! jk!
9:41 pm on August 26th, 2008
Kareem,
I’m also having problems logging into wordpress after upgrading to 2.6.1. I tried removing the cookies but that didn’t work. What did you do to your wp-login.php and pluggable.php files?
Michael
12:16 pm on December 11th, 2008
The upgrade was smooth for me too. Thats a really nice list of plugins!
3:23 am on January 14th, 2009
Just found this post while searching for Link Harvest fixes and just thought I’d share how I got it working:
* Edit …/wp-content/plugins/link-harvest/link-harvest.php
* Look for the line:
@define(’AK_WPROOT’, ‘../../’);
* Remove ../ so that the line looks like:
@define(’AK_WPROOT’, ‘../’);
Now you can re-activate the plugin in WP 2.7 and re-harvest your links!
glenn