Wordpress 2.3 Break A Lot Of Things!

If you plan to upgrade to the latest wordpress 2.3, you will be sorry if you didnt’ read this post.

Just kidding, but really … wordpress 2.3 break a lot of things. And this is what you can do to upgrade.

Why Break? Big Change For The Database Scheme

The latest wordpress 2.3 have drop couple of database table such as …

• categories
• link2cat
• post2cat

If any of your plugin or customization using this 3 tables, it’s wouldn’t be work properly. Wordpress 2.3 is design to use term in the more powerful and flexible way to replace categories.

term - is the new definite table work as the function as category, link-category and tag. it’s provide more flexibility to design and group any post and page together in the future.

Category and link category will import to term when upgrade to wordpress 2.3. But if you are using ultimate tag warrior, you can use wordpress 2.3 bundle import tools to import all the tag manually to wordpress 2.3 term.

Check Plugin Compability

You can check all your plugin compability in this table.

Most plugins will work since not all the plugin use this 3 database tables we mention above.

What We Do …

We have upgrade to wordpress 2.3 to our testing server, and found out that a lot of things wouldn’t work due to the fact that we have many customize code in our function that involve in this 3 table to help us to create search engine optimization internal link structure in wordpress and plugin don’t work on 2.3.

It will take us about 2 days work to work it out and patch it to all our production servers. So we decide to stick to wordpress 2.2.x for sometime before we find the time to upgrade it all our production wordpress server. Anyway, but not many people have customize code in their wordpress, and this is the step by step guide we advise you to upgrade your wordpress after experience the comparability issues.

Step By Step To Upgrade

Basically, this is what you can do to upgrade your wordpress to 2.3 :

1. List down all your plugin you used in a excel sheet.
2. Check the plugin comparability base on the table we mention above.
3. If pass, proceed.
4. If fail, wait and don’t upgrade yet.
5. Download wordpress 2.3.
6. Download all the plugin that need upgrade.
7. Backup your database.
8. Backup your wordpress 2.2 files
9. Deactivate your plugin that need upgrade.
10. Replace wordpress 2.3 files and folder except /wp-content ( not sure, read our guide on upgrade wordpress )
11. Upgrade using /wp-admin/upgrade.php
12. Activate plugin that need upgrade
13. If you are using Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin, import the tags.
14. Finish! If didn’t work, roll back to your wordpress 2.2 files and database.

Well, this is the safe way to really upgrade your wordpress to wordpress 2.3. Our advise is do it in your testing server, but not many people have a testing server or a server located in their computer to play with it. So schedule a upgrade time and always make sure you backup your database and files before you do the upgrade.

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