Get Your Blog Ready For WordPress 2.3 This Weekend

September 22nd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: Blogging • Everton

Tags: Blogging News, Blogging Tips, plugins, Tags, theme, Wordpress

I find the weekend is the best time to do blog maintenance and chores as traffic and activity tends to slow down a bit. Plus, I tend to have more time as I have a day job during the week.

A good task this weekend is to get your site ready for WordPress 2.3, which will be available on Monday. Here are some things you can do this weekend to get ready for WordPress 2.3:

• Backup your blog
• Create a new temporary bookmark folder with the homepages of all your plugins in case anything goes wrong with your old plugins and you need help, or to upgrade
• Brush up on how to add the new tag support to your theme
• Prepare a few draft posts in advance in case you’ve got your hands full on Monday!

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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   Comment by Joseph Plazo on 22 September 2007:

   As for me, I’ll wait for 2.3.1.

   Im confident the boys at WP will discover some security holes the day 2.3 comes out. Sometimes first mover is also the lemming that takes the first leap.
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   Comment by Serg on 22 September 2007:

   Great I’ll try it instantly
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   Comment by Dave Starr on 23 September 2007:

   Good advice to take this as a backup opportunity. Many bloggers just don’t seem to ever do this. It’s easy if, as you suggests, we take one morning/evening a week and do a very simple backup process. Fortunately the WordPress autmatic update plug-in does this (if you follow the screen prompts) well, automatically.
   http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html
   I made a folder under “My Documents called “Blogs” and a subfolder under that for each blog.
   Just run the Autoupdater and at the end where it asks about “Clean Up” , download the “files” and the “data” backup files … press on, you’re done until next week.
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   Comment by Zath on 23 September 2007:

   I’ve a plugin that backs up my blog on a weekly basis and emails it over to me which I find pretty handy, as backing up is always something i don’t get round to!

   With regard to the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, are people happy using this now? I know there was some people questioning how reliable it was when it was first released?

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