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WordPress 2.1 0/341 is released and luckily dreamhost Submit already supports it as an auto-upgrade. So what is a wise thing todo for such a major upgrade?
1. I upgraded my sandbox blog 2/993 and am testing this
2. I first checked the The plugin compatibility listing 0/1 to see if my current ACTIVE plugins will work (anyways it was a handy list to do some product comparison):
- The admin drop-down menu 1.3 Submit CHECK
- Akismet 1.8.1 9/5,227 CHECK
- Autometa 0.8 0/59 CHECK
- Bad Behavior 2.0.5 0/771 hmm.. I think I need to go to 2.0.9 for safety… DONE… CHECK
- Blogger Title Fix 1.1 Submit UNKNOWN (not in list), will test this afterwards
- Charcounter 1/5 0.0.1 UNKNOWN (not in list), will test this afterwards
- Dagon Design Form Mailer 4.2 1/347, CHECK
- Exec-php 3.0 2/1, CHECK
- Feedburner Feed Replacement 2/70 2.0.2, hmmm…upgrade to 2.2, fiddling with .htaccess…DONE…CHECK
- Google sitemaps 2.7.1 4/4,318, CHECK, Im going to test the beta later
- Gravatar 1.1 0/221, CHECK
- Landing sites 1.3 0/180, UNKNOWN (not in list), will test this afterwards (the translated version is however known to work so I suppose this one will too
- Links Page 1.0 2/277, CHECK
- Pagebar 2/133 1.2, hmmm…there is version 1.3.1 which seems to be required for WordPress 2.1, however I made some changes inside the code of this plugin…ok …filecompare…editor.. update…CHECK
- Related Posts 2.02 1/Submit, CHECK
- Smart Archives 0/444 1.5, UNKNOWN (not in list), will test this afterwards
- Spam Karma 2.2 r3 4/611, CHECK
- Stumble Info Link 6/780 0.2, ITS NOT IN THE LIST BUT…. Since I Wrote it
…it will work
- Subscribe to Comments 2.0.4 5/1,625, It says 2.1,…The website seems down so lets put this one on the todolist
- Text Control 2.0b1 1/15, CHECK
- Text Filter Suite 1/204 1.1, ITS NOT IN THE LIST, let’S disable it for safety…end of pirate day talk
- Ubernyms 2.6 Submit, It´s not in the list, hmmm…lets disable it for now
- Weighted Words 1.1 Submit, Its not in the list, lets test this afterwards
- Wordcount 0.0.1, CHECK
- WordPress Database Backup 1/108 1.8, Hey… I definitely need to upgrade to here Submit. Lets unactive and do this afterwards
- WP Cache 2.0.19 2/551, there is now version 2.0.22, but even 2.0.17 hmmm lets upgrade to 2.0.22. (after i did this i read that only version 2.0.22 seems to have a problem and previous version did not 1/1…sigh).
3. I checked Google for weblogs that already upgraded 0/1 to see their experiences (also Technorati Submit):
- Online diary reports no improvemens in speed Submit although the database should have a high performance upgrade
- Nick Star reports its now WAAAY FAST Submit.
- I must remember that the option for the tabbed editor is under my user profile Submit
- I must remember to check my tags to see that they are not depricated 0/2
- On QuickOnline tips I found 10 tips you should know about WordPress 2.1 2/381
4. I made a full copy of all my source (e.g. adjustments to my template) and a full database backup.
So…now I only have to investigate if WP-Cache 2.0.22 will work normally with WP 2.1 and then we are off, adjust theme settings again and update the plugin compatibility listing above 0/1.

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I’ve verified that my Text Filter Suite is compatible with WordPress 2.1. It’s safe to turn it back on.
Oh, and BTW, I’m running WP-Cache 2.0.22 on my site, and haven’t seen any problems with it, so far.