Comments on: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:49:48 +0000

Since upgrading to 2.9, I can no longer post any code samples. Line feeds are stripped out so the code renders in long single lines.

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:05:36 +0000

A WP upgrade would not wipe out your blog. I bet if you looked at your database all the posts are still there. You just have some little glitch to fix — a missing wp-config file or missed a file when upgrading or something simple like that.

By: Michelle Lamar

Michelle Lamar — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:27:16 +0000

WISH I would have read your post before I tried to upgrade to 2.9. I’ve been using WP for years but with the 2.9 upgrade, it wiped out my entire blog—-and my back-up files are not uploading—so I guess all my posts from 2005 until last week are GONE. *Sigh* Just shows I need to read you more often.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:30:15 +0000

Great overview, thanks fella.

By: David Wells

David Wells — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:15:00 +0000

Thanks for this info on the wordpress update.

Looks like I will have to go through and upgrade all my sites =P. They should add in a bulk upgraded to upgrade across multiple sites at once in wordpress 3.0

By: Tim Nicholson

Tim Nicholson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:50:04 +0000

To be clear, to display the thumbnail images in a theme, you need to specify this in functions.php:
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );

And then specify this where you want the thumbnail to appear (usually in index.php):
the_post_thumbnail();

You will also want to style the image in your .css stylesheet.

One thing that is a big dissapointment with this, though, is that you still have to manually specify a thumbnail for each individual post. I wish that it would parse the content for images and make a thumbnail out of the first one that it finds.

By: Keith D Shrock

Keith D Shrock — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:12:16 +0000

Great feature-by-feature description. Finally an Undo button — every bodies favorite Microsoft feature. Why did it take so long for basic logic to set in? And a quick picture editor — looks like the beginning of a time savor. This is going to be FUN.

By: Elizabeth K. Barone

Elizabeth K. Barone — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:13:22 +0000

Thank you for this. I can’t wait to play with some of these new features. Great write-up!

By: No' Joke

No' Joke — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:54:44 +0000

Thank you very much for this post… I’m about to upgrade to wordpress 2.9… I hope it won’t mess out evrything

By: Vitaliy Rain

Vitaliy Rain — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:46:51 +0000

It would be desirable for optimisation of kernel WordPress, reduction of consumption of resources. All basic new functions in WordPress 2.9 are directed for work with images. Yes it became more convenient to work, however kernel WordPress was not updated about 5 years. Persistently we keep for old, to the detriment of development so we lag behind others CMS. Integration of plug-ins into a system kernel, not a way out.