Comments on: Back to Wordpress version 2.2

By: Owen S

Owen S — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:57:50 +0000

Ah, I sorted it all out by dumping freshy2. Got to cut down on plugins since there’s a built-in image header rotator and title customizer, and tags are wow, just wow. I think it beats D-Tree and categories hands down, no contest. Will follow up with a post about it later when I get my blog up and running. (:

Haha, empathy. I stayed up till 10AM looking for a theme. Man, the things we do for our blogs…

By: ConcreteBadger

ConcreteBadger — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:13:47 +0000

@Owen S: If you have the old database saved as a backup SQL file it’s not too late to wipe the upgraded one, do a DB restore and get things back to how they were. Wordpress still have older versions of the files themselves available for download too - I recommend 2.2.3 since it’s working fine here. I’m holding out for a 2.3-compatible version of Freshy 2, which may solve many of the problems.

but yeah, it’s a bummer that the categories plugin you(we)’re using isn’t 2.3 compatible, or, what I find to be most baffling, the blogroll either. You have my sympathy, my friend. Or more specifically, empathy since I went through half a jar of Kenco and a whole afternoon in sorting this place out.

By: Owen S

Owen S — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:17:24 +0000

Currently at my wits end about freshy2 and wanting to keep it vs. the horrible category bug, and lack of a functional blogroll. Ugh. You made the right choice.

By: ConcreteBadger

ConcreteBadger — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:42:43 +0000

@Orion: Cheers. Yeah, it’s a relief and 2.2.3 does everything I want it to with no problems at all.

@Hidoshi: I use PHPMyAdmin (you’d have to check with your web host if you have it or not), then followed the instructions on the Wordpress site. The only problem with the restore is that, unlike the backup which gives a dialogue box showing the download progress, you don’t actually know whether it’s worked until the process is finished. They’re not kidding when they say it’s a long process, either - I had a number of agonising minutes (my DB is around 25MB, approximately half the maximum size PHPMyAdmin can cope with) waiting for it.

@Kabitzin: That sounds like a neat idea - it certainly saves you having to remember to do the backups.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:41:07 +0000

WP DB Manager is pretty good for backing up your database. It can be set to automatically back up at certain intervals, and keep a certain number of backups, too.

http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php

By: Hidoshi

Hidoshi — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:14:01 +0000

I’ve been wondering that — how DO you backup a database in Wordpress? A lot of mySQL software does it for you via some built-in feature, but I can’t seem to find it with Wordpress. Any help would be most appreciated. ^^;

By: 0rion

0rion — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:54:28 +0000

Glad to hear you were able to revert back without too many hiccups. I’m still running 2.2.3, and don’t have any plans to upgrade at the moment, as it’s serving my needs plenty fine.