{"id":1138,"date":"2007-05-17T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2007-05-17T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:30:39","slug":"on-the-latest-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1138","title":{"rendered":"On the Latest Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2007\/05\/wordpress-22\/\">WordPress 2.2 released on Tuesday<\/a>.  And we&#8217;ve upgraded.<\/p>\n<p>After my experience with the 2.1 upgrade I was wary.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=951\">First, the 2.1 upgrade didn&#8217;t seem to work at <i>all<\/i><\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=952\">Then, the sidebar links broke, as did smileys<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=953\">Finally, I rewrote some .php code in my sidebar, fixed the sidebar links, and all was right again with the world<\/a>.  The upgrade to 2.1 reminded me a great deal of an old truism of the early 80s&#8211;&#8220;DOS isn&#8217;t done &#8217;til Lotus won&#8217;t run.&#8221;  (If <i>anything<\/i> dates me, tis that.)  Upgrades should be easy, they shouldn&#8217;t take <i>days&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the 2.2 upgrade was generally painless.<\/p>\n<p>One change I make with every upgrade is I add additional smileys and the code to enable them.  That code moved from vars.php to functions.php, and it took some time to figure out where I needed to make the appropriate edits to enable the new smiley functions.<\/p>\n<p>The only real hitch I&#8217;ve had is that the sidebar widgets worked, but I couldn&#8217;t alter them in Opera as it didn&#8217;t <i>show<\/i> anything on the appropriate page on the backend.  A re-upload of the Javascript libraries fixed the problems, so all I can figure is that a file didn&#8217;t work the way it was supposed to due to a bad upload.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s new in WordPress 2.2 or why I needed to upgrade.  It&#8217;s the 2.3 upgrade I&#8217;m looking forward to&#8211;I&#8217;m curious how the tagging implementation will work.<\/p>\n<p>We are upgraded, and we are good. :spock:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 2.2 released on Tuesday. And we&#8217;ve upgraded. After my experience with the 2.1 upgrade I was wary. First, the 2.1 upgrade didn&#8217;t seem to work at all. Then, the sidebar links broke, as did smileys. Finally, I rewrote some .php code in my sidebar, fixed the sidebar links, and all was right again with<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1138\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Latest Upgrade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[4096],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}