Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.3
Published on: Apr 23, 2008
I recently experienced a complete failure of this website. Probably the biggest weakness of WordPress is that doing almost any type of tweaking of your site can result in your webpages going completely blank. While deleting some unused plugins from my blog with a FTP program, that is precisely what happened. My SEO Blog went completely blank on me. And, I had absolutely no idea why.
WordPress version 2.2.3
None of my quick fixes worked. So, I deleted everything off of my web server with my FTP program. And, I uploaded a new version of WordPress: 2.2.3 (which was the previous update before their latest version [ie, 2.3]).
That did the trick! I got my blog back. Amazingly, I lost none of my posts. This leads me to wonder where exactly my database of posts, comments, and pages is stored? Is it somewhere on my hosting service? Or, at WordPress central itself? Beats me, I have absolutely no idea where.
I lost one plugin: Redirection. The redirection plugin went totally screwy. Doesn’t matter really cause I had previously stumbled upon another plugin that gave me direct 301 redirection access to my web server.
The only new feature that I see on this 2.2 version of WordPress is a slightly different Comment interface. Also, the post preview screen in the visual editor appears to have been dropped.
Nevertheless, I am now going to stick with WordPress version 2.2.3 for a while. And, since I, also, stopped using a plugin to automatically update my XML Google sitemap file the visual editor now appears to be always working. While previously, that visual editor never seemed to work correctly, until I disabled a plugin or two.
Presumably, this new version is a little bit less buggy, a little bit more stable, and a little bit more secure than my old version of WordPress 2.1.2.
While mucking about with two other SEO plugins I, also, discovered how to do a few SEO tricks without a plugin. So, I deleted one while keeping the other on hold for occasional use since it gives direct access to making 301 redirects on my server. That apache file is invisible on my FTP program for some reason. Now, I can see what my hosting service added to it. A week before, I experienced another melt down of my blog which resulted in a 500 server error. Cause I wrote over that magical file with my own copy. Now, that I got those few extra lines of code. This will no longer be a problem.