Upgraded Blog to WordPress 2.3
By StrangeWork.com: After reading Jeff’s WordPress upgrade post I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my blog to WordPress 2.3. As always WordPress has made this process extremely easy. Simply follow their online instructions and you shouldn’t have a problem.
One small annoyance, which was changed a few versions ago, is the removal of the Post Preview Pane located at the bottom of the posts form. WordPress 2.3 does include a Preview >> link, but I hate opening new windows just to preview a post. Here is a quick hack to get the Post Preview Pane back:
Open up your post.php file from your wp-admin directory.
Navigate to approximately line 72 and find the following line of code:
include(‘edit-form-advanced.php’);
Directly underneath that line, add the following code:
?>
<div id=’preview’ class=’wrap’>
<h2 id=”preview-post”><?php _e(‘Post Preview (updated when post is saved)’); ?></h2>
<iframe src=”<?php echo clean_url(apply_filters(‘preview_post_link’, add_query_arg(‘preview’, ‘true’, get_permalink($post->ID)))); ?>” width=”100%” height=”600″ ></iframe>
</div>
<?php
Save your changes to post.php and upload. Easy as that!
WordPress 2.3 has added some really slick new features including native tag support, plugin update notifications, and a few new SEO URL updates. It appears all of my plugins ported over without issue, but be sure to check your plugins before upgrading.
I also have the dashboard bug that Jeff posted here. Apparently it has something to do with using Google Blogsearch rather than Technorati. I’ll see if I can find a hack to switch it back to Technorati, because that is a feature I’ve always enjoyed.
* UPDATE
I found the hack for incoming links.
If you want to get Technorati results back change:
“http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:”
on lines 11 and 12 in index-extra.php to
“http://feeds.technorati.com/cosmos/rss/?url=”
and
“http://www.technorati.com/search/”
I recommend everyone take the plunge and get upgraded!
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Brad Williams is a computer programmer and tech junkie who enjoys exploring technology and sharing his knowledge and experience with others.
Brad
said
am September 26 2007 @ 9:15 am
Guess I spoke too soon as I received an error on my comment subscription plugin when I posted this. There is no upgrade available for it yet so I’m going to find a different subscription plugin that works with 2.3.
Brad
said
am September 26 2007 @ 9:24 am
Found the hack for incoming links.
If you want to get Technorati results back change:
“http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:”
on lines 11 and 12 in index-extra.php to
“http://feeds.technorati.com/cosmos/rss/?url=”
and
“http://www.technorati.com/search/”
Jay Parkhill
said
am September 26 2007 @ 12:55 pm
It’s reassuring to know it’s a simple step. I just need to find some free non-workday time to do it!
Brad
said
am September 26 2007 @ 12:59 pm
Yeah it wasn’t bad at all. I would set aside about an hour from start to finish. I backed up everything before upgrading as well just to be safe!
Jeffro2pt0
said
am September 26 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Thanks brad for the Technorati replacement hack. Works like a charm.
Chino Yray
said
am September 27 2007 @ 3:25 pm
for me, I’ll wait til a lot of plugins has been upgraded and bugs has been fixed before taking the plunge.
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am September 28 2007 @ 1:28 pm
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mlankton
said
am October 5 2007 @ 8:42 am
I’m waiting for 2.3 via Fantastico. Fantastico just makes it too painless to upgrade, and nothing breaks. (Knock on wood)
Brad
said
am October 5 2007 @ 9:15 am
Yeah Fantastico is a thing of beauty, but I didn’t want to wait to try out the new features.
Jeffro2pt0
said
am October 28 2007 @ 4:40 am
The latest upgrade causes the damn linkbacks to come from google blogsearch again. Guess I’ll have to reapply this hack each time I upgrade WordPress
Jeffro2pt0
said
am December 30 2007 @ 2:56 am
Once again, this tip has come in handy. And I’ll comment on how great this tip is each time I have to change the damn file with every upgrade
Travis
said
am January 4 2008 @ 1:31 am
Should you ad this exactly as you have it or turn around the opening and closing php tags. Sorry i am a newbie when it comes to this php stuff but i’m learing more and more each day.
?>
<iframe src=”ID)))); ?>” width=”100%” height=”600″ >
<?php
Thanks in advance
Travis
Brad
said
am January 5 2008 @ 11:53 pm
@Travis – yes add it exactly as I have it highlighted above. You are closing out the line above which is PHP code.