This is my first post with the shiny new Wordpress 2.1, codenamed Ella, version. I was keen to upgrade, but was alarmed by some of the reports. I made sure I did my homework which was helped by Lorelle’s detailed post, and some experimentation too. Upgraded one blog with fantastico and another manually, both went smoothly. The fantastico upgrade went without a hiccup, I did not do much there. In manual upgrade, I disabled the plugins, removed Wordpress files except the content files and copied the new ones. I do not use the WYSIWYG editor, otherwise I would have had to disable it. Of course, in both the cases, I backed up all the files and the database in case the upgrade went haywire. After both the upgrades I saw the new blue administration login box that I was so used to on Wordpress.com.
I do not use a lot of plugins, but the ones which I use have played well yet. I am ready for some debugging and modifications. I will now play around a bit and feel the difference. Most of it is visible in the admin area, but there are quite some improvements even in performance.
The upgrade has taken this theme well. I was waiting to upgrade to Ella to release this as a theme. I will still be testing this blog, and it will help if you drop a line when it behaves weirdly with you.
UPDATE: Had problems with UTW, which Donncha had mentioned. Good thing is that Donncha’s post also contains the solution, which worked perfectly.
January 25th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I got little trouble in Ella, when I approved some comment or edit post from current post. after that I save and the page go to page 404 (document not found) and I don’t know how to fix it
January 26th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I should purchase a shirt with “I Survived Ella” on it. As it turns out, it was a 4 hour update disaster. Turns out everything is fine and I’m getting used to working with it. I have two other WP blogs to work on, but I’ll wait a little longer before proceeding: http://www.thearticlewriter.com/blog