Permalink Bug in Wordpress 2.6

[Useless]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

Does anyone know what will happen to my blogs if I don't do the upgrade to wordpress 2.6? I keep hearing about all these bugs and am nervous about upgrading.

HotWifeBlog (not mine) has an Alexa Ranking of 75k and runs on WP 1.5. Once you have a stable version, there is no reason to upgrade unless you REALLY must have the latest, coolest plugin that comes along. (and basic SEO will do more for you than all those funky plugins) I wonder if there is a repository for all the old versions of WP, you know, the ones that actually performed as expected?

[Lemmy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I wonder if there is a repository for all the old versions of WP, you know, the ones that actually performed as expected?

There is a release archive with all the previous versions. On one of my blogs I had to "downgrade" to restore functionality in a theme that the latest upgrade broke.

I researched my problem (missing categories) and it appears to be a bug in the upgrade script they've known about for weeks, yet it's still in the latest version I downloaded yesterday. If you have an older blog (2.1/2.2) do NOT go straight to 2.6 (you'll lose your cats), but do an "intermediate upgrade" to 2.3 first and you should be fine.

Or you could just not upgrade at all. If it ain't broke, is stable and does what you want it to, why bother (I keep asking myself )?

Oh yeah, if you do upgrade, make sure to back up your database. If you don't and something goes wrong you might end up just a little bit fucked.