WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Since I have made a small contribution to Brians Threaded Comments (v. 1.5.18) plugin, mainly in a form of suggestion I feel responcible for sharing how to Force Brians Threaded Comments work nicely with WordPress 2.5 plus and SezWho 2.1 plugin.

I know it might seem like a lot of acronyms but they will all make sense once I have describe the problem and then will provide a simple solution…

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WordPress 2.5 have been officially released a few days ago and this is the first time I provide my personal take on it and sharing things You Must Know before doing the upgrade!

I have to admit - the core blog functionality is great. It takes some time to get used to new interface and has One Big Issue with Media Upload (which I’ll explain how to fix in this article) but overall I can actually see that it is faster, better and performs like a champ! And if you don’t use ANY plugin or have verified that ALL plugins you use are compatible - go ahead and upgrade. Otherwise read this article…

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50 Minutes ago developers have released a WordPress RC2 but be aware - it has a problem!

Obviously I have downloaded and installed it to see if some of the previously noticed problems have been addressed only to learn that after upgrade my blog is dead! Luckily I was presented with an error which pointed directly to wp-includes/taxonomy.php file line 165.

In order to get my blog working I had to get that file from RC1 even though this file have been upgraded for RC2. I guess we can only hope that developers will address the issue and update the package. And make sure to watch the screencast by Matt on new Gallery feature that comes with 2.5!

As of few hours ago WordPress Development team has announced the release of WordPress 2.5 RC1. Meaning that even they don’t consider this release 100% ready for production and want to test the waters with as wide audience as possible.

You should take same precautions because in my test - WordPress 2.5 RC1 is not ready to take the space on my production blogs. I have discovered that couple of the plugins that my blog heavily relies on are not compatible with new version.

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