I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.8 yesterday and everything went smoothly…upgraded a few other sites as well with no problems and fixed a couple of botched upgrades for clients…problems mostly related to incompatible plugins. I have noticed a couple little annoyances (for example, in the post writing window, once I switched to single column now it won’t go back to 2 columns), but no show-stoppers.
If you are upgrading, be sure to:
- Backup you database first just in-case you have problems and need to recover.
- If you want to be “extra safe”, backup your WordPress source code…or at least, your wp-content directory
- Deactivate ALL plugins — this is very important. If a plugin is incompatible with 2.8, then it could break your site
- Change to the default, Kubrick theme
- Upgrade using the built-in upgrade feature IF you are upgrading from 2.7+. If you are upgrading from an earlier version, I would recommend that you DO NOT use a plugin to upgrade. In that case, upgrade manually.
- Change back to your custom theme, if needed.
- Reactivate your plugins one at a time to ensure they work.
Check out the following thread on wordpress.org for possible solutions to common problems people have been experiencing during the upgrade.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/279132?replies=9
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