After deliberating for a month or two, I’ve finally upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.02. A Spam Karma upgrade was applied too.
One thing I would note, and this is a point well made elsewhere, if you are using Google AdSense make sure that your AdSense code is protected from WordPress’s new Preview feature. Easily achieved using something similar to this (lines 1 and 9 are the lines to look out for):
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<script type=“text/javascript”><!–
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google_ad_client = “”;
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google_ad_width = 120;
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google_ad_height = 240;
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google_ad_format = “120×240_as”;
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[snip]
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<?php endif; ?>
More about the AdSense issue can be found here and here.
What was the first thing I did after I installed WordPress 2.02? I went off and installed CodeSnippet. Then, and I think this is very important, I turned off the HTML/WYSIWYG editor – it’s just a pest, slow, and looks to be buggy.
Worryingly, my first post, this one, when published…didn’t appear on the blog…it vanished.
RSS 2.0
1:53 pm on March 21st, 2006 1
I have to say that I’ve been avoiding an upgrade to Wordpress 2 for a while now. After the reports of problems I heard with the initial release, I’ve been waiting for something a bit more stable – vanishing posts don’t exactly inspire confidence!
10:00 pm on March 21st, 2006 2
I’ve since *found* the vanishing post…oddly, it elected to publish itself two days in the past. I’m sure this wasn’t me…anyway, vanish was perhaps a strong choice of word…an element of forgiveness may be on offer!
3:28 am on March 27th, 2006 3
Just upgrade one of my sites (http://www.grumblingtummy.com) to the latest Wordpress 2.0.2 without any hitches. Smooth and many new features. The WYSIWYG editor sucks big time – no one should use it yet!
On Craig’s recommendation I also installed the CodeSnippet plugin. Very nice indeed.
Regards
John
3:58 am on April 28th, 2006 4
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