WordPress 2.1 Out

January 22, 2007 · 33 comments

WordPress 2.1 was released earlier today and it boasts many bug fixes (over 550 strong) and an impressive new feature list. For me the most important new feature is auto save for posts with a revamped upload manager coming in a close second. Let me know what you think about WordPress 2.1 – how the upgrade goes and if your plugins work with it. I’ll be working on a computer science project late into the night at the College of Computing.

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January 24, 2007 at 3:54 pm

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1 Laurence Anderson January 22, 2007 at 7:39 pm

I’m not to ready to upgrade until I hear what other’s results are, because I don’t wanna mess anything up.

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2 Ronald Heft January 22, 2007 at 7:53 pm

Have you upgraded yet? I’m working on doing that now.

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3 Jake Jarvis January 22, 2007 at 7:54 pm

Upgrade went seamlessly over here — just the simple replace everything except /wp-content and run /wp-admin/upgrade.php procedure. All my plugins still work — Ultimate Tag Warrior, Akismet, ContactForm, coComment, etc (and I even forgot to disable them before upgrading). I haven’t ran into any problems with 281 either.

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4 Brian Gilham January 22, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Upgrade went well and most of my plugins are working fine. Apparently, there’s a problem with Ultimate Tag Warrior..and it seems to have broken my own plugin, Own the Feed.

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5 Andre Deminiac January 22, 2007 at 9:05 pm

I’m looking forward to playing with it.

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6 Adam January 22, 2007 at 9:05 pm

Everything worked ok over here too. My overly fiddled-with, and bastardised version of 281 withstood the update. Makes me wonder if Habari is going to be able to challenge the simplicity of Wordpress.

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7 Andrew Swihart January 22, 2007 at 9:23 pm

I know Wordpress is a godsend for blogging, but I’m interested how many of you have tried Textpattern for something different.

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8 Ronald Heft January 22, 2007 at 9:27 pm

Brian, there is a new version of UTW that was released a few days ago. Have you tried that?

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9 c. wess daniels January 22, 2007 at 10:00 pm

I’ve upgraded and everything is working fine. All my plugins seem to be up and running and I even decided to install Sidebar Modules which I really like.

The only thing so far I noticed was something weird when I uploaded pictures in the post editor. It kept duplicating an old picture that I uploaded a few weeks back as opposed to the one I actually selected from my desktop. I can live without this feature as I use ecto to publish, but it seemed weird.

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10 Adam Walker Cleaveland January 22, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Quick question – anyone else have a hard time leaving comments on people’s sites who have switched to 2.1?

I just tried on a friend’s site, and it took me to this url:

http://domain.com/wordpress/wp-comments-post.php

And just sat there…

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11 Ronald Heft January 22, 2007 at 11:08 pm

It appears there is a bug with Subscribe to Comments, which is most likely causing your problems. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.

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12 Adam Walker Cleaveland January 22, 2007 at 11:12 pm

Possibly, but I wasn’t trying to subscribe to the comments. Might just be a problem with his site — unfortunately, it’s c. wess daniels’ site (comment above mine)…looks like he’s experiencing some duplicating entries….

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13 c. wess Daniels January 22, 2007 at 11:27 pm

Yeah – thanks for the heads up Adam, scratch the part where I said I wasn’t having any problems. Now I have to start digging for a fix.

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14 c. wess Daniels January 23, 2007 at 12:07 am

Okay so I had two problems with my WP 2.1 installation:
1) Sideblog plugin version 3.5 doesn’t work with 2.1. There is a new version

2) The plugin “Subscribe to Comments” does something really weird as well.

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15 Paul Stamatiou January 23, 2007 at 12:09 am

I will likely wait until I know for a fact that all of the plugins I use will work without a problem.

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16 c. wess Daniels January 23, 2007 at 12:21 am

yeah i wish i would have been more patient!

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17 Andrew Swihart January 23, 2007 at 12:47 am

Growing pains?

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18 zzap January 23, 2007 at 3:16 am

Ultimate Tag Warrior is working fine here with the upgrade; didn’t even disable it when upgrading.

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19 miltownkid January 23, 2007 at 3:49 am

Installed. Everything seems OK, but I’m not running many plugins. I can’t seem to figure out how to turn the WYSIWYG editor on and off though (I have the FCKediter plugin on.)

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20 Ralph Dagza January 23, 2007 at 4:46 am
21 Kyle Korleski January 23, 2007 at 6:05 pm
22 Johan January 23, 2007 at 7:39 pm

if anyone cares to read my hard work I put in reviewing 2 WP handbooks:

for the enthusiasts: Go here

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23 Laurence Anderson January 23, 2007 at 7:57 pm

I decided to just go for the upgrade, it went smoothly, no problems just like my 2.0.5 -> 2.0.7 upgrade.

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24 Shawn Blanc January 23, 2007 at 10:27 pm

After updating MySQL version and reloading my database, I upgraded to 2.1 and everything seems to be working fine so far.

The only thing I’ve run into is when editing a post or a comment once I save it I get a blank page.

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25 Ralph Dagza January 23, 2007 at 11:42 pm

“If you use the feature, it will cut off posts in RSS feeds.”

i dont like it :(

is there any fix???

Paul, I see that you are using the “more tag” but how come youre still serving full RSS feeds?

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26 Ralph Dagza January 23, 2007 at 11:43 pm

oh i see you havnt upgraded to 2.1

my bad

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27 Paul Stamatiou January 24, 2007 at 1:03 am

Wait, you’re saying that the more tag in WP2.1+ will stop the post in the feed? eek! Can anyone confirm?

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28 Ralph Dagza January 24, 2007 at 1:21 am

To see is to believe!
here’s my site, im using a paul stamatiou inspired k2 theme, i love the “more” feature because it keeps my site tidy but i want to serve full RSS feeds, even though i only have 40+ subscribers and i dont even much care about content scrapers.

http://ralphdagza.com

my feed.. (summary burner is turned off or inactive)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ralphdagza

Here’s a screenshot..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralphdagza/367741287/

it says

“Note: If you use the feature, it will cut off posts in RSS feeds.”

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29 Thomas Holmes January 24, 2007 at 5:32 am

Grrr. I can’t believe it – I just upgraded four sites to 2.0.7 yesterday. Talk about stress….

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30 Ash Haque January 24, 2007 at 10:44 pm

I keep getting the following error all over the site;

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]

It doesn’t seem like I’m the only one but theres still no fix for it. Thus far upgrading to version 2.1 has been a complete nightmare

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31 Vincci January 28, 2007 at 4:46 pm

I updated to 2.1 and everything went pretty well except the sidebar. I don’t really see much of a big different from the previous version. My plugins worked as well.

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32 Gonzague January 29, 2007 at 8:48 pm

upgraded on my small blog. works fine :)

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