I have been playing with the newly released WordPress 2.7 trying to decide if I like it or not. The functions that they have added are nice once you get them working.
What did I say? Did I say once you get them to work?
Yes, I did. I personally had a problem using the new feature which automatically installs plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory. It took a lot of testing on different blogs to see if it was the host or my site or the script running WordPress 2.7.
Here is what was happening, I would find the plugin I wanted and click on the install link. The plugin would download to my site but when it started to unpack it would freeze and the plugin wouldn’t be installed.
It didn’t matter if my site was running suPHP or not, if I lost you with that, suPHP is a protection program that runs on your site. This makes running WordPress much easier because you don’t have to set permission for every folder or file it is changing and you don’t have to add your FTP information to the script to complete the process.
It didn’t matter if I used the automatic install or if I was using the upload and install feature it would freeze when it was unpacking.
I tried it on three different hosting services so I was getting to the point where I thought it was a scripting error in WordPress 2.7 and I hit the WordPress Support Forum. There were tons of comments and problems about 2.7 but I didn’t see anything about the automatic plugin install.
I posted my problem and then did a search of the support forum to find there was a similar problem with the automatic plugin upgrade that was part of the WordPress 2.5 and to my surprise it was related to the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin.
So, logged back into the admin area and deactivated the plugin and boom everything worked fine for the automatic plugin installer.
If you have the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin installed deactivate it when you install WP 2.7.
Besides this plugin is officially retired and WordPress 2.7 has the feature built in.
Like I said there were a bunch of other problems at the support forum but most of them were like mine personal to the person.
One that seemed to affect a lot of people with different plugins was losing all the links in the admin section. This happens with some of the admin navigation plugins that work like WP Admin Bar (although this one seems to work fine) the problem is you need to deactivate the plugin to get the links to show and you need the links to deactivate the plugin.
There are a couple of ways around this:
One is to FTP to the plugins folder on your site and rename or delete the plugin so that it won’t be activated.
The other is to go directly to the plugin page in your admin area after you login and deactivate it there.
To go directly to the page you will go to the admin section and log in.
Once you are logged in go to the address bar in your browser and where it says index.php change that to plugins.php and hit enter or go.
This should bring you to the plugin page and you should be able to deactivate the plugin. Once it is deactivated you should be able to see your admin links again. Just in a different spot.
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Hi, i also have problems with the new wordpress updates. Especially many plugins dont work anymore. I truly think about it, if its worth to realize my next web project http://www.expercash.de/ again with wordpress or to try another software like typepad. Do you have experiences with typepad? Greetings Tina
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Hi Tina,
I personally still think that WordPress is the best and most flexible blogging platform. A lot of the plugins that don’t work with 2.7 aren’t needed anymore because the function was built in. I have used Typepad and it is a good blogging platform but you loose all the plugins and themes that you can get with WordPress.
But again this is my personal opinion.
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