Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” is another great WordPress release. WordPress 2.9 was released on December 19, 2009 but I never had the time to upgrade the blogs and sites before Christmas and even after the holidays. Then on January 4, 2009, WordPress 2.9.1 was released to address a handful of minor issues.

With the two releases, I just thought that it was time to upgrade. And so, yesterday, I upgraded the blogs and sites below from WordPress 2.8.6 to WordPress 2.9 “Carmen” to WordPress 2.9.1.

Sofie Hofmann dot com
Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International
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

WordPress 2.9 introduced a lot of new great features like editing an image using the built-in image editor, updating the plugins in batches, embedding with oEmbed among others, but I have not really explored and tested them yet. I will not write about the new features. You can read all about them at WordPress.org or just watch the video below.

There is one thing though that I would like to share to you. If you have been following my blog every time I upgraded to a new released version of WordPress you probably knew about my problem with the Image Gallery feature of WordPress and how I found a solution to it.

I was sort of not in the mood before to find out what was the real problem so I looked for a simple solution. But yesterday, I really looked for the problem and what I can actually do about it so I do not have to comment on the four lines at the post.php file every time there is a need to upgrade.

With one site for example, the “File URL” at the Media Library was different from the “guid” at the wp_posts at the database. You probably knew already that the “File URL” if you need to “Edit Media” at the Media Library cannot be edited from there. So I especially looked for that particular problem and found out that I can actually edit it at the wp_postmeta at the database.

I could actually use some SQL syntax but opted to edit them one by one as I did not want to take any chances that I might make a mistake and delete some things that I do not want to delete. I just removed the unnecessary folders and subfolders before the file name of the photos at the wp_postmeta at the database.

With another site, it was more of adding the year and month before the file name of the photos at the wp_postmeta at the database. The year and month were not reflected when I first uploaded the photos because the miscellaneous settings were different then from the one at the present.

I changed the settings at the miscellaneous by checking “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”. When I first uploaded the photos, I did not check “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”.

With what I just told you, I did not comment anymore on the four lines at the post.php under the wp-includes folder. Other than the Image Gallery problem, upgrading from WordPress 2.8.6 to WordPress 2.9 to WordPress 2.9.1 went fine.