Anyone Succeeding with 1.5.1?

People are supposed to whine & complain on a support form. Look up the definition of support.

Anyway – 1.51 is working beautifully for me! 🙂 I had no troubles, and that’s coming from a girl that is a little ditzy at times… especially when it comes to WordPress & PHP.

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It took me longer to backup my files and database (and my blog is very small) than to run this upgrade.
All went perfectly well since I knew I had to disable the Entity2NCR plugin thanks to the nice upgrade thread in the forums.

PS, if you can spell ditzy then you are over qualified to use PHP. I managed to teach PHP to a person who had problems answering the question “are you awake”. Apparently transitioning from “eh” to the next word was too much for one day.

With a little training, that person managed to rebuild a static HTML site in to a dynamic PHP/MySQL site in a few days. I never did find out what came after “eh”.

Installing WordPress and modifying a theme would have cut the training from three days to less than one day. I would have spent only one morning watching the lad attempt to understand the complex interaction between his hand, mouth, and coffee cup.

One poster described problems installing WP and then revealed that his/her ISP uses ASP instead of Apache. Was there not a warning against that in the bible? I have used ASP very successfully but getting Web pages out of ASP still reminds me of the birth scene in the movie Alien.

peterx – love your post !!

hmmm….. this thread and the other clearly show why I am no longer active here. In fact, I’m considering dumping WP again. I should not HAVE TO upgrade to 1.5.1. My 1.5 works just fine for me. OK, I understand that there’s a security fix. Fine, release THAT and only THAT.

aminox – Thank you for showing me the light. If the attitude it take it or leave it, I’ll leave it. I’ve seen too many problems from people, who I KNOW are knowledgable with PHP and WP, and yet things still break. Can anyone say Pings/TrackBacks/RSS Feeds? All of which I use and my readers too. I refuse to give them up.

So I’ve heard that “all I have to do” to get the RSS working again is to edit a post, and save it, then edit a comment and save it. What an assinine solution. I understand that it’s free, but that’s still no excuse for the crappy release that was supposed to be A) minor and B) a security fix. As someone who develops software for a living, I’m apalled that the fix wasn’t an option, and that to get the fix, I have to upgrade, giving me a a bunch of bugs I don’t want and some new functionality I don’t want either.

And when asked for what was changed, the posting was not only vague, but then followed up by a “well here’s the change log” with nearly 200 items in it! And I’m expected to sort through all of that? Bull snot!

peterx – eh.
A lack of communication skill does not reflect “ditzy”-ness. My own communication skills leave something to desire and most of the time I respond “uh”. Maybe that’s what comes after “eh” I don’t know. Point is – you don’t know what this person is doing outside of the class, so don’t be throwing stones.

Bottom line is that I am frustrated with the “minor” releases breaking fundamental funtionality of the software, things seemingly “slipped in” (or out) and no one mentioning that it is happening, and security fixes that come in the form of alleged upgrades rather than simple patches. I still have yet to find somewhere that tells me WTF the security bug was and what the fix is. And “upgrade to 1.5.1” shouldn’t be the answer.

As Cartman would say “Screw you guys, I’m going home.”

Odds are, this will most likely be my last post here.

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I agree, answering should be held to the same standards (clarity, depth of detail, courtesy) as asking. Makes sense to me. 🙂

Shelley Powers has written a patch that can be applied if a full upgrade is impractical. That’s the beauty of open source; even if the developers don’t want to provide patches, there should always be other coders willing to plug the hole.

It’s thanks to Shelley’s straightforward approach that I’m going ahead with the upgrade; she was one of the people asking the wordpress developers to be more upfront about what the problem was, so if she now says it’s serious enough to warrant immediate fixing I’m more inclined to take that seriously than a vague dev blog post saying ‘look! shiny new upgrade of wordpress! lots of new features! bugs squashed! new plugin hooks! grab it now! oh and by the way there’s a security fix.’