To The Moon And Back

From the wordpress.org website:

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.5) is available in two formats from the links to your right.

Three Step Upgrade
These are the short instructions, if you want more check out the extended upgrade instructions. If you experience problems with the Three Step Upgrade, you may want to review the more detailed upgrade instructions.

It looked promising, easy and exciting. Plus my main blog desperately needed an upgrade after using WordPress 2.0 for more than a year. After a quick review of what I need to do, I immediately backed up my files, database and started doing the WordPress 2.5 upgrade.

The more detailed upgrade instructions were great. It was very easy to follow even for a non-techie person. I was even able to load WordPress 2.5 on my local and played around with it for a while. The new interface design is really nice and I noticed that tons of new features have been added. However, things started messing up when I tried to comment, add or edit post, and change themes. Most of the errors have to do with database. I decided to sleep then hoping things will look better in the morning (it usually do). When I woke up, not only I can’t comment but it won’t even allow me access wp-admin anymore. I searched and searched the net for solutions but eventually just decided to downgrade to 2.3.3. I didn’t see any instructions on downgrading so I just closed my eyes; overwrite the 2.5 files with 2.3.3 files while hoping that it will work. It’s still a huge improvement from 2.0 so it will probably do. It did work after a few minor tweaking here and there.

The thing is there are still no sidebar widgets under Presentation when I know it’s already included in the latest versions of WP. I had to make do with copying and pasting codes on the sidebar.php just to make things work. I might take a look into this further but I’m so beat that I’d rather take a break reading about database, Wordpress, PHP codes for a while.