The site hadn’t been upgraded in a long time, too long in fact. So with the release of Wordpress 2.5 I decided it was time to really update this thing. I had been worried in the past with plugins and other things not working, but with 2.5 it seems that most things had been considered and there is even an auto -update-plugin feature. With a little research and a bunch of backups I decided it was time to go.

I did the upgrade this morning and was surprised at how easy it went and how almost everything worked right away. There were only two issues, and only one was major. The smaller issue was compatibility with the FireStats plugin. It was not showing some information correctly and messing with the sidebar widget tool a little. After upgrading the plugin it all works perfectly now. The bigger issue and the one I am not too happy about is the Adhesive plugin which I had been using to keep regular posts at the top and all of my Twitter daily posts below that, as to not lose the regular posts in all my Twitter spam. This plugin does not work at all and all other alternatives to it seem to break Wordpress altogether.

My options now are to stop with the Twitter posts each day or to try to hack the code to get it to work. Seeing as how I’m 1.) really lazy right now and not wanting to look at code and 2.) probably losing RSS subscriptions by posting Twitter things everyday I have decided to just let it go for now and to stop posting Twitter things.

I think most of what is in 2.5 is not noticeable by the viewer of the site, most things are what I will see in the backend, but I’m sure there are performance updates and such that might make it run faster. At any rate, if you see something that isn’t working, let me know. Thanks.