Peregrine

There were a few minor difficulties updating this blog to WordPress 2.1 Ella (reffering to Ella Fitzgerald). Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve slowly worked on fixing things. It looks like everything is the way it should be now.

There were some databases changes that weren’t handled very cleanly by the update script. I had to drop and recreate the DB from my backup (taken just before starting the upgrade process).

One of things that changed was the way that links are managed. The wp_linkcategories table was “replaced” with a new wp_link2cat table. Unfortunately, the upgrade script didn’t complete the conversion process.

Most of the work required to fix up my links was done within the management interface in my web browser. Not hard, but it took a few moments. One of the categories didn’t make it through the upgrade. Several others (but not all of them) from the categories list now show up, too. Upon further examination I discovered that the only categories that appeared were those which were not assigned to any posts, though, it appears in the UI that they intend all categories to be simultaneously usable for posts, pages & links. However, when I tried to assign a category which is in use for several posts to a link, that link no longer rendered.

The change from a separate set of categories for links to a unified categories system was certainly the right direction. It merely appears that testing of that part of the upgrade code wasn’t very thourough.

Writing this post, I discovered what appears to be a new auto-save feature. Every couple of minutes while the focus is in the post body input field, the auto-save kicks in and a text marker next to the save/publish buttons updates to say “Saved at h:mm:ss” (the time on this notebook). Nice!