Today, I updated my WordPress installation to version 2.5.1 and I gotta say: It was a breeze!
At first, not all plugins worked the way they were supposed to but with a little tweaking and twitching everything is back to normal. Especially my painfully customized frontpage needed some extra convincing. That’s the price you have to pay when you want something different from all the typical blogger themes.
I also implemented the now integrated Gravatar support into the code and CSS.
Switching from UTW (Ultimate Tagging Warrior) to Amaury Balmer’s Simple Tags wasn’t so easy, though. First, make sure you download Simple Tags and not its predecessor Simple Tagging or it will not recognize the .htaccess rules and wont submit any queries to the WordPress system. If you are using the k2 theme, take a good look at this guide and eradicate all of the former UTW code from your (probably customized) template files. I guess, the problems I ran in to were mostly version and k2 related but still a pain.
All in all, I am very happy with the new Dashboard, the plugin and especially the new tagging system. Great work WordPress team, Amaury, Scott Reilly for CPL, and the other plugin devs.
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