ArticlesOddThinking has been upgraded to WordPress 2.0. 
For those following after me, the upgrade of the core WordPress system was painless.
However, the upgrade of the various plugins was a bit laborious. I had to hunt down the latest versions of many of them before I upgrades. Also many were not listed in the “known good” or “known bad” lists, so they had to be re-tested.
I didn’t encounter any bugs during the upgrade, but the due diligence was a bit dull.
One plugin has changed immensely in the latest version, and I am still working on the theme changes required. It is called Subscribe2, and allows users to subscribe via email. I’ve been strongly tempted to simply abandon it and force my readers to rely on RSS feeds only.
I haven’t found any features of WordPress 2.0 visible to the reader, but there have been big improvements to the admin interface, so I am happier, even if you’re not.
Comment by Richard on January 2, 2006
Sucky. Someone needs to do more unit testing, as it seems clear that they’ve introduced several issues with permalinks in WP 2.0.
From the forum you linked to, it looks like fixing your post slug (WP may be griping that it’s different to the title, for some reason beyond my ken), making sure your permalinks don’t reference any physical directories, ensuring the .htaccess file is world writable and contains the appropriate entries, and finally getting your dashboard to update the permalinks should fix the problem, but I’m not about to start trying to reproduce it here…
Comment by Sunny Kalsi on January 2, 2006
Your RSS feed doesn’t seem to be working either (2 Jan).
Comment by Sunny Kalsi on January 2, 2006
No, it’s fine, just the URL has changed.
Comment by Julian on January 3, 2006
Richard,
I think this was a red herring. The slug is always different to the title (for titles longer than one word.)
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That’s tougher. It certainly was creating some entries, but they were very different (much simpler) to the ones created in WordPress 1.5.2. However, I suspect that they are not redirecting everything to
index.php, and doing the work in PHP rather than mod_rewrite. This was the point where I balked at debugging.Check.
So I checked the forum again, and someone suggested using a patched version of WP 2.0. I looked and found that it had a slight change to the way it wrote the .htaccess (amongst other items). I figured it was missing all the elaborate mod_rewrite rules, so I installed it, and told it to write out the .htaccess again. It remained a simple file, but suddenly it worked.
Huh?
Oh well, I guess I have to recommend holding off until WP 2.0.1.
[And based on my experience with the built-in WYSIWYG editor… hold off until 2.0.2 for that one!]
Comment by Julian on January 3, 2006
Sunny,
Re: RSS feed’s URL.
I assume you were subscribed to the comments feed on a particular post, using the permalink name. If so, it should now be working again.
If you were talking about another RSS feed (e.g. the main one), please let me know!
Comment by Sunny Kalsi on January 6, 2006
No. The old RSS feed URL was oddthinking/feed. The new one is just a get variable.
Comment by Alastair on January 6, 2006
Hmm, for some reason this post doesn’t show up on the archives for January 2006. A Y2K6 bug?
I am now girt by WordPress 2.0 after a moderately smooth upgrade. Once again the local mirror came in very handy (FreeBSD mirror instructions forthcoming), and the only problems were permission errors on upload (darn cache files).
Due to your experience with the WYSIWYG editor, I have disabled it. Surely with all the new WP 2.0 hooks this could have been turned into a plugin? I mean, there are those of us who have published rants against WYSIWYG and are unlikely to try it (or admit to trying it) no matter how good it is…
I am growing more and more disallusioned with WordPress.
Comment by Julian on January 6, 2006
Sunny,
The official URL (http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/feed) is working fine.
The unofficial URL (http://oddthinking.somethinkodd.com/feed) is broken. Thanks for highlighting this. I will look into it.
Alastair,
Thanks for pointing that out. Delving deeper, I found that every “next page” link is giving 404 errors. More permalink errors? The consequence is that if a post doesn’t appear in the most recent 5 posts of that month, you couldn’t see it.
I have worked around it by increasing the list size from “5 posts worth” to “31 days worth”, but upping the figure will increase page-load time. I will search for a proper solution later.
I agree that WordPress 2.0 has been a little disappointing, but they have enough goodwill from me that I am willing to believe that there will be a small flurry of fix-up releases coming. (I am already running an unofficial later version.)
Unlike you, I had high hopes from the WYSIWYG editor… oh well.
Comment by Julian on January 7, 2006
Sunny,
I have further worked out that all paths under oddthinking.somethinkodd.com are broken (“internal site error”), but WordPress will always give links in the (working) canonical form, so you should never come across a broken one. I declare this to be working-good-enough-for-now, unless there are objections.
Alastair,
The 404 error problem went away while I was still debugging it. This scares me.
Comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis on January 7, 2006
Aren’t Heisenbugs lovely? :-)