WordPress 2.1 is on notice — slackermama . com

I’m going to try to keep the snarling to a bare minimum but it’s going to be tough.

*snarl*

Whoops. See?

So yesterday, I thought I’d be real clever and try the newly released WordPress 2.1 “Ella”. I’ve been looking for this release for a while now and when I read the feature list, I got a little excited. It sounded just too good to be true. And? It was. At least as far as this blog is concerned. Because I AM a plugin junkie, I think the plugins and the new version just didn’t want to play nicely with one another. Here’s a short list of things I noticed during the whole ten minutes I was running WordPress 2.1 on this blog:

I love and depend on the upload widget on the “Write Post” screen. I upload pictures there all the time. And, since I’ve become more flickr dependent, there’s a plugin I’ve been using that lets me easily access my flickr photos right from that widget. Sweet! Except in 2.1 it was gone. Poof. No uploading or flickr’ing or anything. That was a deal-breaker right there.
Also? There were like three things on the WYSIWYG editor. I think the bold, italics and underline buttons and that was it. Another deal-breaker.
It tried to display ALL of my posts on the front page. Okay, do you know how long that would take to load? I don’t either. But I was scared.
My links disappeared? Uh, hello? I finally just got them back up, thankfully they were still there, but the tag I was using no longer worked. And unfortunately, reverting back to 2.0.5 didn’t solve it. I can’t seem to separate them by category any longer like I did before without some serious tinkering, but at least they show for now. I’ll have to fix the rest later.
My pages. Oh, my pages. This one actually causes me literal grief. My pages are gone. Not just off the front page, which they definitely are, but off the database. They vanished like a fart in the wind and I didn’t notice it until this very afternoon. Another thing that reverting back to 2.0.5 didn’t solve and now they’re probably gone forever and ever, amen. That means my about page, my contact page, all those videos I uploaded of Liam.. and my page for Jackson. GONE. *weeps*

So, yeah. A lot of this was partially my fault. I know the rules, I know I should have backed everything up before I upgraded but I’m a slacker (see blogtitle) and didn’t do it. I just didn’t think my PAGES WOULD DISAPPEAR. I didn’t think to check the plugin compatibility page, but I don’t know what good that would have done because there are several plugins that are listed on there as okay with 2.1 that I know for a fact aren’t. Or, at least they aren’t as far as my blog is concerned. So, I’m back at 2.0.5 until everything gets sorted out, new versions of plugins are released and until I feel brave enough to attempt it again.

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