Did You Have Any Problems Upgrading To WordPress 2.3?

I had a few issues with the upgrade but most were due to incompatible plugins. Google Sitemaps plugin broke it and a few other smaller ones. I needed to upgrade several plugins as well. A little more painful than the normal upgrade but not to bad. I did not try tagging though actually.

I did the same as you, update a testblog first and my categories disappeared, i can't imagine if i do it to my blog.

thx Pablo - I'm definitely going to wait. I use Simple Tagging a hell of a lot, and it's so good I'm not going to upgrade.

I ran the upgrade on my lowest traffic blog hosted at godaddy.com and guess what? First the categories disappeared. Then weird characters started showing up all over the posts.

Worse, the wp-admin/upgrade.php command didn't work. I just get error messages. This signifies database update failure.

After trying the 5th time, the blog simply stopped loading. I get a white screen.

Darn.

Googling the web for 2.3 upgrade failures led to quite a number of seething folks. Turns out that using themes other than the standard WP offering causes a flop. Try upgrading using the basic theme.

I haven't had any issues upgrading some of my simple blogs to 2.3, however some of the changes they have made to categories affects my main blog since I use category hierarchies for blogroll.

I had no problems, check out my post about my experience upgrading at http://www.lwees.com/2007/09/26/lweescom-upgrad.... ;-)

I'm not going to upgrade yet either. I am so used to the version I have, and don't feel like changing at the moment. I do like the security updates and that sort of thing though.

Sad that the crew at Wordpress didn't follow the "If it's not broke, don't fix it" credo. They finally got a really excellent product working with 2.2 and then tried to force 2.3 out the door to actually provide no further functioanlity ... just tryig to copy what plug-in providers already offered.

It'sa like a car company issuing a new model with no imporvements to the engine but, instead tires made by the cra manufacturer and not by a company that knows tires. people like to be able to choose what's best for them ... not have a one-size fits all solution forced on them. At this point in time I am skipping 2.3 completely ... subject, of course to how Automatics cleans up the mess they have made ofwhat _was_ the hands-down best blogging platform.

OTOH this might just be the final catalyst that pusshes me over the bridge to Drupal, which is less suitable for an 'every day" blog but head and shoulders better in the database design/data protection space.

Yes, the the "Related posts" is not working for me anymore and I occassionally get an error message when I approve or add a comment.

And I was cautious too. ;) I upgraded my tennis blog first and I won't upgrade my Freedom Ideas blog yet.

Maybe in the next update...

I see a lot of other complains in other forums as well, about 2.3 and better to stay with 2.2 untill we have another fix.