Yeah, I know. I tried to post a comment on your blog and got an error.

I agree with you on increasing confidence. I also made the point when we spoke earlier about it giving me an excuse to have a backup of my customized folders (wp-content) and files (.htaccess & wp-config.php) on my hard drive. Always good to have backups.

Joey,

Makes total sense. Let me know when you solve the punctuation error. And I’ll keep an eye for the solution I found a while back as well.

My sidebar widget had a fatal error. All I had to do was go into my file manager and delete the PHP Sidebar file since 2.2 has sidebar widget as part of core. All of my sidebar settings were still there.

I am still working my way through the punctuation abnormality.

(no apostrophe problems, and all plug-ins seems to be just fine)

I have a personal blog that Fantastico is hooked into, and that upgrade took about three seconds. I did my main site manually, because of a tweak we did that took it off Fantastico.

Both seemed to go pretty smoothly, though. Thanks for the time on that wp-db-backup plugin, too.

One bonus of doing things like this is that it increases my familiarity and confidence in dealing with the “back-room”, technical stuff.

You happened to leave the comment while I was working on the update. Talk about timing…

Knowing where you are with your blog – just starting out – I would update as soon as you can.

Joey,

I’ve read about this error. Check the WordPress forum and see if anyone knows the fix. I can’t rememeber the details, myself, but I have seen it.

Jean,

That’s great. Happy to hear it went easy. I’m really liking 2.2 myself.

Writing a new post is improved though.

I used Fantastico.

I’ve been wondering about when to update to 2.2. Thanks for the nudge and the encouragement.

I’ll definitely let you know if I have any issues with it. And I can always contact Lorelle VanFossen and see what she knows.

I guess something in WP2.2 has to be fixed. Shall wait eagerly for the next version

Thanks. And you’re welcome.

Julien,

My host has it’s own updating method, still one click, but different then Fantastico. Works fine usually. Except, I changed domain names and that broke their auto updating system.

Updating manually is not difficult. Just takes a bit more time. But the extra time means that I got to backup my plugin/uploads/theme folders. The difficulty came in the plugins I’m using.

Kian Ann,

I’ll definitely let you know if I run into that. Is it something in WordPress or server-related?

Thanks for the link. Even after upgrading, I’m still getting occassional memory exhausted errors – am I the only one?

I’ve upgraded manually before but I have quite a few blogs now and would prefer to use Fantastico if it works.

Have you tried to upgrade this way?