Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

I spent a few hours yesterday upgrading sites and blogs from WordPress 2.8.5 to WordPress 2.8.6. You are probably wondering why I spent a few hours upgrading when WordPress has an automatic upgrading feature which would take a few minutes only.

Well, most of my time was spent testing the sites in my local computer in case something is broken. I finished upgrading the following:

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Pro Blog it | ProBlogging Venture Tips and Ideas, Reviews and Opinions
ISYU.INFO Around the World
Patria Diesel Power Plant Issue
Semirara Dumpsite Issue
Pandan Antique Philippines
Tugbong Festival
Weggis along Lake Lucerne Switzerland
PAGTATAP Foundation
Philippine Seafarers Assistance Programme
Leocadio Alonsagay Dioso Memorial Public Library

Among the 12 sites including the blogs that I upgraded, everything went fine except for the 3 sites where I again have a problem with WordPress Image Gallery. As usual, I just solved it by commenting the 4 particular lines at the post.php file which is under wp-includes folder. With that, the images will be called from the right path.

If you have a problem with WordPress Image Gallery and you need a solution, kindly read this blog entry, Solution to WordPress 2.7.1 Gallery Code Problem. I have been having this problem with WordPress Image Gallery since upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1 and until yesterday when I upgraded the sites to WordPress 2.8.6.

You can also read this blog entry, Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.3, Image Gallery Problem and Solution if you would like more information why I have this problem. It might give you an idea what not do.

WordPress 2.8.6 is a security release fixing two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. In the case of the sites and blogs that I upgraded, there would have no problem but I opted to upgrade them anyway.

Download the new WordPress version from this url: http://wordpress.org/download/.