90% of existing plugins won’t work after you upgrade to WP 2.8
This means that if you follow the instructions to ‘please update now’ you’re going to suddenly find your site not working. Excellent. Superb. Wonderful. That’s what I call progress. Add to that the fact that WP 2.8 doesn’t actually upgrade or work 100% properly, according to this review.
I don’t know about you, but I’m up to here with this ridiculous upgrade culture I find myself in. Every time I manage to get my site just about working again after the previous cosmetic Wordpress upgrade, they – someone! – go and release another version. This usually breaks my site again. Either the installation doesn’t work or the plugins don’t.
Do any of you ever ask why we do this? Who decides? Does it have to be this way?
I don’t want 2.8. I didn’t actually want WP 2.7.1 – certainly not the hassle of upgrading it (which isn’t very simple or clear). Strangely enough, I didn’t want 2.6.1 either because 2.5 worked just fine but in Digital Britain you don’t get a choice.
The main reason upgrades are done the way they are is because of security issues. If security is architected properly, you should be able to patch systems. Personally, I didn’t have a problem with the upgrade, BUT, I run a minimum of plug-ins. Granted, I’m in the process of redoing my blog, but I do agree there is way too much re-architecting happening between upgrades without a migration plan for the plug-ins and themes.