{"id":217,"date":"2007-09-22T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2007\/09\/preparing-for-23\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T11:58:28","slug":"preparing-for-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2007\/09\/preparing-for-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for 2.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just a few short days WordPress 2.3 will be coming out with tons of new features that (hopefully) will make you want to upgrade right away. Well while you have a bit of time over this lovely weekend, here are some things you can do to help yourself prepare for the big upgrade on Monday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back up your blog. It never goes out of style, and we have <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Backing_Up_Your_Database\">a nifty Codex page with a few different methods<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Check for the latest versions of your plugins. <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Plugins\/Plugin_Compatibility\/2.3\">Here&#8217;s a list of known compatible and incompatible plugins with 2.3<\/a>, Google Sitemaps seems to be one causing a lot of issues. (<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/135160\">Forum thread<\/a>.) Upgrading might get you cool new features anyway. Don&#8217;t forget about our <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/\">plugin directory<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy the last time you have to check for plugin updates manually, as 2.3 will do it magically behind the scenes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/richgilchrest.com\/how-to-add-wordpress-23-tags-to-your-current-theme\/\">Read up on how to modify your theme to add tag support<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Consider <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Installing\/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion\">switching your install to use Subversion<\/a> to make updating ultra-easy.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of your friends who are less computer literate so you can help them upgrade. (Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/event\/269586\/\">throw an upgrade party<\/a>?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any other ideas put them on your blog and pingback this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just a few short days WordPress 2.3 will be coming out with tons of new features that (hopefully) will make you want to upgrade right away. Well while you have a bit of time over this lovely weekend, here are some things you can do to help yourself prepare for the big upgrade on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-3v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10521,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/10521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}