I’ve recently had to upgrade several blogs from WordPress 2.7 to 2.8. Here are some plugins that caused me to rip chunks of my hair out.

• Wordpress Automatic Upgrade: I found it strange how it didn’t tell me that I needed to upgrade to the latest version, instead I got the message from WordPress’ built in notification. When I went into this plugin it also told me that my version was already up to date – LIES! I decided to use WordPress’ built in upgrader and it almost worked like a charm, just had one minor snag. It tells you the progress of the upgrade but it didn’t get past the part that said “Unpacking the core”. No error messages, no warnings. I checked the logs and found out that the built in WordPress upgrader was trying to use a library that the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin was using. BOOM! Fatal error! Upgrading this plugin fixed the problem. I was then able to use WordPress’ built in upgrader or this one.
• podPress 8.8: After upgrading to 2.8 I went to “Posts -> Add new” and clicked on one the little “Upload/Insert” media icons. Uh no, nothings happening! No thickbox glory! Took me a awhile to figure it out but you have to upgrade podPress 8.8.1 to get your media icons working again. It had to do with some javascript conflicts in the page.

There is also a bug in WP 2.8. If you go to edit a post, then you click “Screen Options -> Screen Layout”. You can toggle between a 1 or 2 column layout. Flipping the switch from 2 to 1 and then back to 2 will make your sidebar disappear! Don’t worry, they aren’t gone for good, they’re just hiding at the bottom of the page. To get them back up to the sidebar just click and drag them to the spot.

If I run into anything else I will be sure to add it to the list.