Wordpress 2.63 upgrade…

Not so smooth.  I haven’t performed the deed here, but I have on another blog.  Over all I must say it’s been a pretty good track record.  I’ve done many of these upgrades and really never had a problem.  Just re-read the instructions every time, and follow them to a T.

This time was different.  Eventhough I followed instructions, I was locked out of the Admin.  It accepted my log in, but kicked me back out to the log in menu.  Front page no problem.  Admin, forget it.  I read others with similar problems and tried their solutions.   NDG.

Finally someone suggested a fix, that worked for me.  So I spread the gospel…I renamed the plugin directory.  Logged in no problems, and named it back to what it should be. 

I don’t know what the funny would be on this.  Part of the instructions says to turn off all the plugins, and I had.  So had everyone else that I read about. 

Hope this helps someone.   Now we look forward to 2.7!

Another beef, I’ve had recently with Wordpress is the inability to post an image the old fashion way.  The insert edit image button brings up an incomplete window, rather blank, which forces me to upload an image any other way and use the link instead.  I’ve seen rants on this too.  I haven’t solved that one.  It happens in both IE and Firefox, I haven’t tried Safari yet but I suspect the results will be the same.

I welcome any known solution.  (I’m currently exploring the add media feature)