{"id":1357,"date":"2007-09-25T07:16:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T11:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2007-09-25T07:16:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T11:16:21","slug":"on-the-newest-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"On the Newest Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress 2.3<\/a> dropped yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded the latest version, spent half an hour uploading the new files to my server, and crossed my fingers.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress upgrades have been a mixed bag in the past.  <a href=\"\">The 2.1 upgrade was a <i>miserable<\/i> experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This upgrade wasn&#8217;t.  I uploaded the files.  I ran the update script.  I didn&#8217;t even turn off my plugins.<\/p>\n<p>Once it was up-and-running, I altered my template files to account for the new tagging functions built into WordPress &mdash; both in single-page views and for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?page_id=863\">tag cloud<\/a> page.  Once those were working, I deleted Ultimate Tag Warrior from the system; it wasn&#8217;t needed anymore.<\/p>\n<p>For all the thud and blunder about adding tags into WordPress core, WordPress 2.3 doesn&#8217;t ship with <i>any<\/i> sort of tag management tool.  <i>None<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>That is mildly annoying.<\/p>\n<p>There at least needs to be a function where untagged posts can take a generic tag, for ease of locating and editing to add tags.  <i>Something<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, the upgrade is done.  WordPress purrs like a kitten.  The bad memories of January are beginning to fade away&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 2.3 dropped yesterday. I downloaded the latest version, spent half an hour uploading the new files to my server, and crossed my fingers. WordPress upgrades have been a mixed bag in the past. The 2.1 upgrade was a miserable experience. This upgrade wasn&#8217;t. I uploaded the files. I ran the update script. I didn&#8217;t<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1357\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Newest 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-1357","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\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}