ejm

AUGH!!!!

What a shame that I didn’t see this post http://wordpress.org/support/topic/292715 yesterday! I have just upgraded from 2.0.11 to 2.8.4. In one fell swoop. Mostly it went well. Just a few glitches that had to be ironed out and I thought I was back on track.

After wandering around in these forums to find out how to get rid of the sudden appearance of random Âs throughout my recently upgraded wordpress (from the legacy 2.0.11 to 2.8.4), it looks like figaro’s assessment at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/235662 is correct. And perhaps songdogtech’s advice here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/310158 as well.

I have several different character sets in the wordpress database. I have stared at figaro’s post and at the wordpress codex as well.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets

Why on earth is there not a big huge red banner on the wordpress “upgrading from earlier installations” guide alerting people to this problem with the character sets? And a note that “links” are going to be changed into “bookmarks” AND renumbered?? And a strong recommendation to upgrade gradually?

Perhaps the WP-CMS Post Control plugin will help.

AND/OR you might try disabling the automatic redirect on the dashboard. I was being sent to a blank page by the wordpress automatic redirect when logging in. I don’t know if this is related or not but it might be worth a shot. Here’s how to do this.

1. First, make a copy of wp-admin/index.php and set it aside in a backup folder on your desktop. Now open the actual wp-admin/index.php in a text editor.
2. Find wp_enqueue_script( ‘dashboard’ ); and “remove” the line by prefacing it with two slash marks:
// wp_enqueue_script( 'dashboard' );
3. Save the file and upload it via ASCII to your wp-admin folder.

As far as I can tell, the wordpress works in every other way.

Is there a page that lists the changes made between 2.7 and 2.7.1? It would be nice to know if the changes are cosmetic or security fixes.

For people who have some posts that allow comments and some that do not, here’s how to change “Comments Off”:

Line 720 of wp-includes/comment-template.php has the words ‘Comments Off’ as the value of the variable $none (in the comments_popup_link function)

wordpress codex: FAQ working with wordpress

To completely remove “comments off”, open wp-icludes/comment-template.php in a text editor (notepad).

look for:

function comments_popup_link( $zero = 'No Comments', $one = '1 Comment', $more = '% Comments', $css_class = '', $none = 'Comments Off' )

Change it to:

//change $none = 'Comments Off' to $none = ''
function comments_popup_link( $zero = 'No Comments', $one = '1 Comment', $more = '% Comments', $css_class = '', $none = '' )

This will make it so that nothing at all appears on posts that have comments disabled. For posts that have comments enabled, the usual message can still appear.

It’s possible that your plugin(s) are conflicting. I just changed permalink settings from the default to “Month and name” and suddenly I too was getting 404 page when trying to access the rssfeed. Try putting the permalink setting back to the default: http://yoursite/wordpress/?p=123

It might not look pretty but it seems to get rid of the 404 page for the feed. It’s a better alternative than having to eliminate a wanted and used plugin.

ejm, WP2.7