Dude. I was Totally Scared, But It Worked Out : Free Traffic Tips

Is anyone else totally in Love with WordPress all over again?

I upgraded to 2.1 when I realized that the site was acting funny and it wasn’t my latest round of plug-ins. Using the one-click install that’s availble to me meant an overwrite of my customization. And at the WordPress site, only the latest version was available to me.

So I bit down hard on a piece of wood, did the upgrade and…

Had only a couple of minor issues that amounted more to concerns than anything. All my plugins that were working before still work. And some new stuff that WordPress is doing….

Saves drafts in the background while you work.
Gives you more power over links
Lets you block Google or pinging automatically – great for folks who run private or password protected blogs like moi
You can make any page the front page without a plugin.
You can make private Pages or draft Pages. The interface of Pages is better too. It’s more of a Content Management System than ever.
The upload thingee is better too.

I also noticed that my posts publish properly, without the errors I’d always get in IE7, and occassionally in Firefox where it either wouldn’t bring up a blank Write page after publishing, or would give me a 404 error.

Couple of weird things though. I have dictionary lookup, but not spell check. I also don’t have the WSYIWG edtior, nor do I see an option to turn it on. Supposedly we were to be able to switch between the two with tabs. I also don’t have that cute preview link in the upper right corner of the page.

All in all though, I’m a happy camper.

Resource links at WordPress:

Read about it/ be about it.

**edit: I solved my editor problem by going to the Users tab in my profile under the personal options. I ticked the box for “Use the Visual Editor when writing” and Voila! Allea, Tinu, il sont tu anniversaire! (Excuses Ã mes lecteurs franÃ§ais. C’est une plaisanterie courante qui aprÃ¨s 8 ans de Francais, je sucent toujours.)

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Tinu Abayomi-Paul is the CEO of Leveraged Promotion, a member of the Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board, and Editor of Women Grow Business. Her website promotion company specializes in reputation management, and building traffic systems for business. You can find her on Google+ and Twitter.

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Good post. However, there's is no way I will dare upgrading any time soon!

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Lloyd Lopez

Glad I was able to help you out somehow. :)

Thanks again for the hint Lloyd! That led me to the realization I edited in above. And the spell check is there too, whoopee! Fast but inaccurate typists of the world unite!

Another weird bug I found? When I edit a post that was created before I activated the visual editor, the fonts are off. But they're fine when I originally create them even if I use the visual editor.

*edit. The workaround is to go in an delete the style code - it makes the text bigger every time I edit. Hm.

Hi Lloyd,

Thanks for stopping by and for the tip, you're aces! I didn't even think about the fact that it could be a plugin interfering. I don't have that one installed on this blog but I'll knock around in my plugins area and see if there's one that is in conflict.

Just joined your community at MyBlogLog, so see you againd soon.

Hi Tinu,

I also encountered some problems during my upgrade but luckily I was able to fix it.

For the WSYIWG editor, be sure to disable any gui plugin(if you have any). If you're using the WP-ContactForm plugin, you'll need to disable the option "Show 'Contact Form' Quicktag"