I broke with accepted “best upgrade practices” and threw WordPress 2.3 up on Friday night/Saturday morning.

Yeah, I know, and as an IT professional I really shouldn’t break best practices, but this is my personal site. I deliberately didn’t test it beforehand and just went live because I was interested in what might break.

I’m pleased with the fact that WordPress coding quality is as so high as it is preventing broken stuff, but I’m also kinda disappointed.  This shit always breaks on me.

Oh well.

Here’s my story on upgrading to the newest WordPress.

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I just tried to post something about comments not going through for myself, and the post saved but doesn’t appear anywhere…

The comment problems I’ve been having have been the same.

I tried to change themes, thinking maybe there’s an error in the theme, and then I get all kinds of MySQL errors.

I just checked the MySQL tables in the database and they all check fine. I also optimized them, just in case.

Damn hidden problems…

Edit: Well, apparently this posted, but my seventh try to comment failed.

*grumble, mumble, curse*

Update (18:28): I can only reliably reproduce it in comments by using apostrophes in them.  But that doesn’t seem to matter to posts.

*mutter, snipe, fume*

Update #2 (19:22): Apparently WordPress fixed some of this stuff and put out a new version – 2.2.1.  Well, paying attention helps.  Since it fixes two security issues, I put it in.  Let’s see if it works.

Fixed (19:48): Unless there are other bugs in there.

After getting moblogging working last week (as you can read with the four short posts that finally went through) I decided to get this poor theme working with widgets in preparation for making my own themes from scratch.

The act of making widgets work was interesting, because I ran into a limitation with the theme I’ve modified into what you’re looking at/I’m currently using.  Kubrick has a dynamic menu generation that includes some extra PHP in the sidebar that isn’t cleanly commented.  And contrary to other’s opinions of me, I don’t code.  I monkey with script.  So the functions are a blurry mess to me.

Essentially, to make my own theme I should get widgets working, but to get widgets working I must get my own theme.

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Themes in WordPress are a new world…   Just in changing the color scheme and killing the images has taken me since 17:00 today.  I’m not sure I like it yet, but the clean white and blue look of Kubrick was beginning to bug me.  I wear black, I’d write on black paper if I could find my white gel pen, so why does my website look like a freakin’ apple store interior?

I’m kidding Steve!!!  Please don’t hate me, or blacklist me!!!  I love your products!!!

Well, now it doesn’t.  Hopefully I’ll find a theme chooser and have a reason for making multiple themes again.

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First off, I like this visual editor that WordPress has.  Very nifty, and it outputs more standards-compliant posts (each paragraph is a real paragraph, not just line breaks inside one master paragraph,) simpler back-end directory structure…

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