After upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 (using the wonderful one-click instant upgrade plug-in), there were some incompatibilities with certain plug-ins.
In this latest update of Wordpress, there were some significant changes to the database structure. Tables were reorganized and broke some plug-ins. In particular, the post2cat table is now gone so any plug-ins that relied on reading it to display a post’s category information has been broken.
What Broke
Personally, I had to disable/update the following plug-ins before my blog was fully functional again:
- Ultimate Tag Warrior – replaced with native Wordpress tagging.
- Google Sitemaps – Updated to version 3.0
- Popularity Contest
- Category Visibility
Keeping my Tags
The loss of Ultimate Tag Warrior was tragic but the native Wordpress tagging function does much the same thing. Migrating UTW tags over was very easy. Under Manage->Import, Wordpress included a method to automatically import existing UTW tags!
I then had to replace existing PHP code that displays tags and my tag cloud page with code to use the built in tagging functionality:
<?php the_tags(); //display tags ?>
<?php wp_tag_cloud(''); //display tag cloud ?>
It doesn’t look pretty yet but I’ll worry about fixing it up tomorrow. I’m just glad I got everything working properly. For more details, see the documentation for tags and tag clouds.
Hope all your installations and upgrades go smoothly!
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I agree there are certain incompatibility of the plug-in. But I guess the advantages are much more than disadvantages.
You are scaring me. If I have to coding and things like that, I better stay with what I have and with which I am comfortable.
Thank you for a great post. I need to update a few of my blogs and I always get so nervous to do it. I seem to always have mega problems every single time. I have the sitemap plugin and utw on most of my sites. I wonder if they will do an updated utw plugin so everyone can continue to use it?
ahhh yes the joys of upgrading… always a cost / benift decision
I had a few hicups myself while upgrading to 2.3, but all-in-all I think it went a lot smoother than expected. Thanks for the blurb about what you did with your tag cloud, because I wasn’t too happy in recoding my sidebars just to implement the new widget.
Yeah there were certain problems with 2.3.. but ..hey hey.. im running 2.5 now (as of last week) and the later sitemap plugin seems to be the mutts-nuts.. its working fantastic(o) !
Nice Blog here.
JimmyD
http://jamiedunne.com