WordPress 2.7 Is Freaky Cool!

by Jack Humphrey on Dec 11

Just upgraded like a minute ago.  I don’t even recognize it.  Haven’t been through everything yet.  But MAN is the backend pretty!

Web Success Diva (Maria) is promising a lot of info on the new features, so I’m going to let her tear through this thing and train you guys up on it.

I just want to play!

Notes: My WP Sticky plugin and Simple Tags plugin both broke in this upgrade.  I don’t think I had any sticky posts, so that one can go.  And I think I was using the native tagging anyway, so if my old tags I may have used Simple Tags on still hold, that one can go too.

Thesis Users: Check out Andrew Daum’s link below for a quick fix for the formatting problem for Thesis Design Options.  Just used that fix and it restored the Java and formatting for your Thesis design pages.

Tagged as: simple tags, upgrading wordpress, wordoress 7, wordpress 7 reviews

  • http://intellectualcapitalreport.com Augie

    Hi-

    I don’t know if you use the PingPressFM plugin in order to ping http://ping.fm... Wow, lot’s of pings…

    Anyway, I found that the upgrade deactivated the trigger, meaning, when you post, it won’t ping. All you have to do is reactivate the trigger.

    Augie

    Augies last blog post..The First Thing Every New Real Estate Investor Should Do

  • http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/12/10/perception-story-of-the-red-horse-blanket Andrew

    What did it do to your Thesis admin panels?

    Heard it messed them up… only reason I’ve not upgraded.

    4 + 2 = 6

    Andrew

    Andrews last blog post..Perception ~ Story of the Red Horse Blanket

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      It took them out of 3 column and made it one long ugly column. I’m sure they’ll get an upgrade out at Thesis for this. That’s damn ugly!

  • http://intellectualcapitalreport.com Augie

    Hi, this is unrelated… actually, well, it’s related to the gravatar plugin.

    I notice my avatar doesn’t show up. Are you pulling from somewhere else besides MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog?

    Augie

    Augies last blog post..The First Thing Every New Real Estate Investor Should Do

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      I’m pulling from Gravatar and then in Discussion settings using the Wavatar substitute for people who aren’t using Gravatar.

  • http://intellectualcapitalreport.com Augie

    Ahhh–

    I have a gravatar account. I had a different email address associated. Should be fixed now. Thanks for reminding me. I (as I’m sure everyone else) have a trillion accounts everywhere, so I forget to update some of them.

    Augie

    Augies last blog post..The First Thing Every New Real Estate Investor Should Do

  • http://www.howtomakemyblog.com Marko

    WP Sticky plugin is not needed anymore anyway.. . WordPress 2.7 has the Sticky post option. Go to “Posts” and in Quick Edit mark “Make this post sticky”.

    Markos last blog post..10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon

  • http://www.andrewdaum.com/2008/12/10/perception-story-of-the-red-horse-blanket Andrew

    Here ya go Jack… in case you have not seen the fix for the Thesis CP’s.

    Upgraded one of my blogs to 2.7 — the code he gives (Rick) to add to your custom php file fixed it all for me. All nice and pretty again.

    http://rickbeckman.com/thesis-on-wordpress-27/

    Andrew

    Andrews last blog post..Perception ~ Story of the Red Horse Blanket

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      Thanks man! You’re saving lives and you should be proud! :)

  • Georjina

    Just now getting into WP from using Blogger and have a question: Is it necessary to upgrade your blog every time WP releases a new one?

    I’m not against a major security patch or correcting a coding flaw, but always wondering if I need to hire someone to ‘fix’ my blog instead of running my business seems a bit much.

    Thought I’d ask

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      @Georjina – you should try really hard to get on the latest WordPress. From 2.7 on you won’t have to do a hard install again. Just press a button and the system will upgrade itself. (Haven’t done that yet, but that’s what they say!)

      Upgrades usually mean security fixes, etc. and you should do them as soon as new ones come out. This upgrade was a massive one as far as changes though and you’re going to love it!

  • http://hardware.reviews-pc.co.uk/ Harvey

    I haven’t really loved the latest changes that they have made to WordPress, but it looks like they have made the interface more functional as well as better looking. Guess I will go install it and kick the tires a bit.

    Harveys last blog post..How to Clean Laptop Screen

  • http://www.webinarreviews.org Rangoo

    The WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin is cool. It makes upgrading WordPress blogs effortless. The plugin does everything including backing up files, deactivating plugins, downloading the latest version of WordPress, upgrading all the files, reactivating the plugins and cleaning up the files.

    One Click Plugin Updater helps me update all the plugins with a single click.

    Rangoos last blog post..MarketingSherpa Webinar Training – “How to Viral Market”

  • http://www.shawndrewry.com Shawn

    Yeah yeah Yeah Jack..lol

    Shawns last blog post..Signing Off For The Night

  • http://www.potpiegirl.com PotPieGirl

    Whoa, Jack… this looks awesome!

    I’m NEVER the first one to upgrade. I always feel like I am the guinea pig for finding the bugs…lol!

    But THIS upgrade looks fantastic and I can’t wait to use it.

    Thanks!

    Jennifer
    ~PotPieGirl

    PotPieGirls last blog post..NicheQ + OWM = $$$

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  • http://intellectualcapitalreport.com Augie

    I’m very satisfied with this upgrade. I can’t remember, I think maybe a couple of releases ago, for some reason, it didn’t reactivate my plugins. That’s kind of a pain, but no biggie.

    Has anyone encountered plugins that are now obsolete because they’ve now build in the functionality?

    Augies last blog post..The First Thing Every New Real Estate Investor Should Do

    • http://www.jackhumphrey.com/ Jack Humphrey

      “Has anyone encountered plugins that are now obsolete because they’ve now build in the functionality?”

      wp sticky is no longer needed
      any plugins that helped you to reply or work with comments are unnecessary now – WP finally got this nailed
      Popularity Contest throws a fatal error now – wish I could get that back
      Any tagging plugins you might be using are no longer needed – WP native tagging rocks

      There are surely more but those are the ones I noticed.

  • Abhi Arora

    After upgrading from WordPress 2.6 to 2.7, the Feed Key feature of the Members Only plugin I use at another blog was not working. Members Only is a WordPress plugin that requires users to login to your blog in order to read/write. In addition, you can protect your RSS feed as a unique URL is generated for each user.

    Every user was getting the following error:

    Feed Key is Invalid
    The Feed Key you used is invalid. It is either incorrect or has been revoked. Please login to obtain a valid Feed Key.

    The feed URL in the version of Members Only that worked with 2.6 changed during the upgrade to 2.7, so a simple URL change solved the problem. I attempted to contact the plugin’s author Andrew Hamilton and sent him the updated files, but I have not heard anything from him, so I am posting here for those who can use it.

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