Upgrades complete
Leo | September 28, 2008
The upgrade of Food In The Fort from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.6.2, including the Freshy 2 theme and all plugins (at least those I planned on upgrading) is now complete. Overall, this was a pretty smooth upgrade. Not at all as nightmarish as some of the Drupal upgrades I’ve done. There were a couple of problems which I’ll note below, and there’s some further backend stuff I want to do, but for now I’m calling it quits.
The first problem of note is that the WP-Print plugin is not displaying the little “print me” printer icon anymore although it upgraded successfully. If I recall correctly, when I first installed this plugin I had to make a small modification to the Freshy 2 theme in order to get it to work correctly so tomorrow or sometime soon I’ll go ahead and take a look at that.
The other problem, perhaps a much bigger issue for me, is that the Flexible Upload plugin has a not insignificant bug. Luckily, I found via the Flexible Upload developer’s forums that nerdTainment has provided a patch to correct the problem until the Flexible Upload developer can roll it into the official release.
Oh, there was one other thing… Apparently because the way WordPress handles attachments (like images), the old CSS styling for the image thumbnails no longer worked. Leaving my old CSS rules in place I simply added the following rules to style.css in the Freshy 2 theme’s directory. This will probably work just fine with whatever theme you’re using, although I can’t promise it won’t blow up in your face.
.attachment { margin: 10px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #aaa; }
.alignright { float: right; }
.alignright { float: left; }
.aligncenter { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
Well, that’s it for now. I think I’ll go reward myself with hot dogs, chips and cheap beer.
About the author: Leo is a technologist and writer living in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is a transplant to the Mid West from Central New York and was promised cheaper gas and better winters. He feels somewhat lied to in this respect but otherwise finds the people pleasant. Read more from this author
Hey punkin,
Thanks again for doing all the crazy computer stuff you do! The site looks just dandy and it’s all because of your hard work.
That being said, I’m now going to undercut my compliment by asking a question: how come when I come to the site it always seems like it’s loading and the little hourglass never goes away until I hit the stop button? Does this happen to you too?
Loves ya, miss ya.
No, the site completely loads for me very quickly. I’m not sure why the opposite should be true for you. I wonder if anyone else is having this issue?