Upgraded to WordPress 2.6 and all’s well.

I begged them to implement the WordPress.COM avatar-generation option for the WordPress.ORG software… and in THIS version they did! That means that if a commenter doesn’t have a Gravatar (although everyone SHOULD!) I can instead have their supplied email address generate an avatar for them - like a special geometric pattern (identicon) or a little monster (monsterID).

This entry was written by WarAxe, posted on July 18, 2008 at 9:21 am, filed under Asides, Blogging and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. John
    Posted July 18, 2008 at 10:11 am | Permalink

    I went back to look at comments from people who previously were Gravatar-less. The monsters are fairly amusing.

  2. Jeff
    Posted July 21, 2008 at 1:30 am | Permalink

    Your lucky… I upgraded from version 2.3.somthing, and instantly ran into a hole barrel full of problems.

    I had to restore from a backup until i figure out whats going wrong.

    something with a plugin i think.

  3. WarAxe
    Posted July 21, 2008 at 10:32 pm | Permalink

    @John
    Yeah… I tell you what, it really adds a goofy touch to everybody’s comments. Like a proxy personality of sorts.

    @Jeff
    Upgrades can be touchy. Nothing will ever be as bad as going to 2.1, though.

  4. AmeriGlide
    Posted July 22, 2008 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    I have been putting off the upgrade for a few days now.

    I know I should, but I started using Joomla on one of my sites and really like all the control it gives me. Joomla is just so much more powerful than wordpress is.

    It is good to know that it went smooth for you though. I might end up doing it tonight…

  5. Olly
    Posted July 27, 2008 at 7:59 am | Permalink

    I found when upgrading from quite an old version all my categories dissapeared - luckily I had only 6 so I manually added them again but this could be a real problem for anyone with a lot of categories - so be aware!

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