Enemy of Entropy

WordPress Upgrade Woes

30 March 2008, 8:53 pm. 7 Comments. Filed under Blogging, Geekery.

Ack! I upgraded to the lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press (2.5) yes­ter­day, and now one of my favorite plug-​​ins (Now Read­ing) isn’t work­ing! You can see the books I’m read­ing at the moment over there in the side­bar, and I can get into the admin­is­tra­tive inter­face, but the library dis­play doesn’t work. Any of the actual book or author pages come up 404. Meep!

It isn’t just on this blog, either—Fibrant Liv­ing has the same problem.

The WP admin­is­tra­tive inter­face has been com­pletely redesigned. I’m not sure what might have been changed behind the scenes, so I’m a lit­tle wor­ried about try­ing to go back to the pre­vi­ous version.

I’ve posted mes­sages in the plug-​​in author’s forum and bug tracker. I’m hop­ing to hear from him soon! Rob actu­ally responded in the com­ments, and the new ver­sion resolved the prob­lem. Yay!

7 Comments »

  1. avatar Carrie. 31 March 2008, 9:57 pm

    I found your site through the Now Read­ing forum, and I’ve had the same prob­lem. After a lit­tle research, it looks like it has some­thing to do with the rewrite rules with Now Read­ing, and Word­Press 2.5 ignor­ing the rewrite rules Now Read­ing is try­ing to use. For the moment, I’ve turned off the “Use mod_​rewrite enhanced library?” option in Now Read­ing; you can access the books and library, the URLS just don’t look as pretty. I think a newer ver­sion of Now Read­ing may be com­ing, as Rob seems to be using ver­sion 4.4.2, but the high­est release he has avail­able seems to be 4.4.1. Any­way, just let­ting you know you’re not alone, and shar­ing my tem­po­rary fix.

  2. avatar cyn. 31 March 2008, 10:14 pm

    Thanks, I’ll try that.

    I’m using 4.4.2, down­loaded from the sub­ver­sion directory.

  3. avatar Rob. 1 April 2008, 12:14 am

    Thanks for bring­ing this to my atten­tion, can you try 4.4.2b please?

    http://​robm​.me​.uk/​2​0​0​8​/​0​4​/​0​1​/​n​o​w​-​r​e​a​d​i​n​g​-​4​4​2​-​b​eta

  4. avatar Matt. 1 April 2008, 4:58 am

    Looks like you’ve got it work­ing! I see that Rob has 4.4.2 avail­able as the main down­load now, so is that what fixed it? I have been wait­ing to upload to 2.5 until this was fixed.

  5. avatar Moondazed. 2 April 2008, 11:29 pm

    Thank you for the pic­ture of Mal­colm… *drool*

    I hope you get your tech issue sorted out :)

  6. avatar cyn. 4 April 2008, 10:40 pm

    I did, with some help.

    Isn’t he a doll? I couldn’t han­dle watch­ing the last sea­son of Buffy, because he was cast as such a hor­rif­i­cally evil character.

  7. avatar HopeEvey. 6 April 2008, 11:09 am

    Good­ness gra­cious, Caleb in Buffy really, intensely creeped me out!

 

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