Like thousands of other WordPress users, we spent the weekend upgrading to version 2.5.1, following it’s release Friday by Matt Mullenweg. The update has left people wondering whether the blogging software was released too early.
On Saturday, the Web Tools Collection site detailed how 2.5.1 users could enter their sites, after the new software began sending incorrect passwords during installation.
A day after the upgrade was released, people were complaining that they could not post, the “Publish” and “Save” buttons flashing and CPU spiking.
In a support message entitled “Upgrading the Upgrade Process,” a writer with the screen name misztai wrote “They can’t test everything, but maybe they should’ve spent more time before releasing everything, take more time and try not to upgrade things a lot. Like space them out.”
WordPress users are being asked to submit bug reports.
Here at Pro Blogging News, we started upgrading from 2.5 to 2.5.1 Friday night. Quickly we ran into the “can’t post” bug. After that, we ran into the “can’t login” bug. Once we learned about the solution, we were okay. However, without that, the famous five-minute WordPress installation process would take an hour.
The take-away from all this: upgrading is a nightmare - go with a new installation and rebuild your system via import.
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