Reasons to not upgrade to WordPress 2.0 from 1.5.2
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 at
3:35 am
Filed under: blogging • Reviews • Weblogs • WordPress
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I didn’t plan on upgrading until about Easter time, but with some extra time over Christmas, I did a thorough backup and upgraded two installations with no problem. I can read that others have had troubles with bugs, but I am quite happily running with no issues.
I’m going to be switching to WP2.0 but I won’t upgrade from WP1.5. Why? Because I’m on Blogger.com right now. WP2.0 gives me a better transition than WP1.5 which I’ve only used on a test basis. I’m not using any thing (yet) that would break WP2 so I get to start fresh. I’ll be very careful to test any plug-ins on my two test bed blogs before using them on the real thing. And as always, backup slowly and carefully.
I think the real question isn’t whether we or not we are going to upgrade but when. Most of the articles you cite point to the fact that current features or plugins won’t work in WordPress 2. When I need something that is not compatible with 1.5.2, or when I see a security update that says go to 2 or your blog will explode with intruders, then I’ll jump on it. Until then I’ll wait until the bugs get ironed out.