WP 2.8.5 all clear to proceed

It was late last night when the upgrade notice to 2.8.5 started to appear on my blogs.  (You didn’t know this wasn’t something that showed up all at once everywhere?)  The notice showed up first here at the Lab.  A couple of my test blogs didn’t have the notice when I retired for the night so I put off doing the upgrade till this morning. (Retired for the night, do you like the sound of that?)

This morning there were other pressing issues across town early.  Now I’m back in the office and upgrades on four of my blogs using automatic upgrades have gone without incident or hiccup.

Most of these in between upgrades are to the core files and not a major restructuring of the database.  Typically the only database update is to the field containing the current version of the WP install.  I think that is the case here.

Removing Support for Old Tagging Systems

One thing to note.  This upgrade will remove the support for importing old tags from plugins that are no longer supported.  While the documentation doesn’t specify which I would guess Ultimate Tag Warrior is one of those.  If you still have those tags and haven’t for some reason imported them into your blog that won’t be possible any longer after 2.8.4 from within core WP import routines.

I Love Automatic Upgrades

I have to say, even with as many upgrades as we seem to have with WP.org  I don’t mind them near as much as I used to when it was the old:

1. download the files
2. unzip the files
3. ftp the files
4. www.myblog/wp-admin/upgrade.php
5. pray all went well

Those days are not missed in the least.

Post from: Real Estate Blog Lab

Wordpress 2.8.5 Upgrade All Clear