Comments on: How To Survive A WordPress 2.3 Upgrade

By: silen-ce

silen-ce — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:14:01 +0000

I installed 2.3.1 and used your updated wp-login.php but still no go. I get the dreaded cookies error. [B]ME TOO[/B]

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HELP!! ANY ADVICE???

By: cindy

cindy — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:38:59 +0000

help help, i upgraded to 2.3.1 and my blog posts don’t show up on the front page any more. I don’t know what to do. help help. spread good karma over the New Year.

Happy New Year.

Thanks.

By: cahilperi

cahilperi — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:23:12 +0000

updated login.php doesn’t work… *g*

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:15:51 +0000

I installed 2.3.1 and used your updated wp-login.php but still no go. I get the dreaded cookies error.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:26:21 +0000

I am one of the many who have been haunted by “ERROR: WordPress requires Cookies but your browser does not support them or they are blocked.”

I recently moved to WordPress from Movable Type. This ERROR almost sent me racing back to MT. Thanks for easily stating the bugs and resolutions in version 2.3.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:31:12 +0000

Hey, I checked out your site, Jummy, and it looks like it’s loading fine. I wonder if you have a plugin that might be slowing things down.

e-mail me if you still are having the issue.

By: Jummy

Jummy — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:43:15 +0000

Thanks for the writeup-I never worry about security but perhaps I should…

Maybe you can help me: before I upgraded to 2.2.3 and then 2.3 within a week of each other, I noticed that my site was taking longer to load than before, and regularly enough to make me irritated I get the “This Internet Explorer page could not be displayed” (I think) message. Why oh why is the darn blog loading so slow?

(Of course you’ll go and check out my site and it’ll load just fine but it’s broken, I tell ya!)

By: n0ia

n0ia — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:29:50 +0000

I took a peek at wordpress at one point just to familiarize myself with it. One of my friends was asking me questions on how he should go about accomplishing certain things, and seeing as how he used wordpress, I did some research to try to help him out.

Straight out of the box, ExpressionEngine seems to be an easier piece of software to get started with - and basically anything regarding PHP and MySQL can be done with EE in templates and what-not. Most of the templates work around EE’s own tags - rather than just straight PHP tags, which is what wordpress uses if I’m not mistaken.

Wordpress (from what I could tell of the tiny bit that I looked at) really starts with the absolute basics - but there’s so much information out there that making it do what you want it to doesn’t seem that hard.

I used MovableType for a few years, and while it got the job done, it got to be very resource heavy - unlike PHP based software (MT used CGI, and may still use it).

I made the move from MT to EE and it went off without a hitch - that right there made me a believer.

If I had several years worth of information stored up in WP, and was comfortable with it, I wouldn’t switch to EE though.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:45:01 +0000

I like Wordpress a lot and highly recommend it. You can focus on writing if you want or get under the hood and get your hands dirty if you want. I’ve never really used expressionengine though, so I can’t say if it’s better or worse.

By: n0ia

n0ia — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:56:59 +0000

While I don’t use wordpress for my site, I can still appreciate a good write up on how to successfully upgrade any piece of software with relative ease.

I cringe everytime I get an update announcement from ExpressionEngine. I put it off far longer than I should, but it always goes well in the end - but I’m always cautious and back up EVERYTHING and then read the instructions on upgrading first, then read them while actually upgrading.