2.3 Upgrade Problem

I had the same thing happen to me. My theme wasn’t compatible with 2.3

Make sure you deactivate all plugins and use the default wordpress theme. Once you have it working with this, then you can start to turn things back on.

Thanks for the tip. I will try that and report back how it goes!

I am not sure if this should be posted in this topic or if I should start another topic. However I felt that the title of this topic was well fitting for my issue.

To begin with I am a bit disappointed with this upgrade and feel a bit let down by it due to the aggravation that it is causing. Generally I find the information for upgrade to be generic, general, and not relating to the specific upgrade.

Personally I like 2.2.3 better and do not believe 2.3 is worth the hype. After the install I noticed the following error message

WordPress database error: [Table ‘expressi_wp_2.wp_categories’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_categories

This message shows consistently with all admin associated with categories (e.g. Manage>Categories>add new categories and My Dashboard)

I have checked MySQL database expressi_wp_2 and wp_categories categories does not exist. Furthermore I have disabled all plug-ins that could in some way relate to categories and that has not resolved the issue.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Restore your backup to 2.2.3?

No, I’m not being a smart-aleck! This upgrade isn’t mandatory (yet) as it isn’t a security release.

Or, to address your error, disable plugins, re-enable individually until you find the one that needs to be updated. The 2.3 Announcement post gives a link to the Plugins Compatibility page — you might check it.

Hrm. I backed up my 2.2.3 installation, deactivated ALL my plugins, and set my site’s theme to WP Default. I then unarchived the 2.3 files over my 2.2.3 install.

When I went to https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php, it displayed only a blank page. I tried it in IE7, FireFox, and via the command line (lynx https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php) with the same result. Attempting to hit https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin forwards the link to https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php, so I am stuck.

I’ve had to roll back to 2.2.3. I would really like to upgrade to 2.3, but am completely stumped. Can someone please help me?

I had a similar problem that was alleviated by updating the permalinks.

JaneLitte… Did you update permalinks BEFORE or AFTER overwriting your 2.2.3 files with the 2.3 files?

I don’t see how I could update Permalinks AFTER the upgrade since pages don’t display…

Oh, you are correct. I did that after. Did you apply the login.php patch. I don’t know if that would work.

Do you have wp-cache installed? You might try to delete that and change your config.php file back to its default state (without the wp-cache line).

Hm, I’m happy that I tried 2.3 on my test database, since it completely wrecked the site. After upgrading I also had the blank dashboard. After trying some things I tried to completely delete all WP files and install from scretch, but this doesn’t work either! No 2.3 for the actual website before I figured out what is wrong with it!

I deleted 2.3 alltogether, installed 2.2.3 and it works like a charm! No 2.3 for me I guess.

I backed up my 2.2.3 installation, deactivated ALL my plugins, and set my site’s theme to WP Default. I then unarchived the 2.3.1 files over my 2.2.3 install.

When I went to https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php, it displayed only a blank page. I tried it in IE7, FireFox, and via the command line (lynx https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php) with the same result. Attempting to hit https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin forwards the link to https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php, so I am stuck.

I’ve had to roll back to 2.2.3. I would really like to upgrade to 2.3.1, but am completely stumped. Can someone please help me?

Eventually I managed to get to 2.3.1 (my earlier postings were about 2.3) with relatively few problems. It proved that the version of the theme that I used didn’t work with 2.3.1, but fortunately there was a newer ones. There are also some plugins that don’t work with 2.3 so be carefull with them as well. It seems that you worked quite thoroughly. I can only recommend to upload 2.3.1 again, maybe a file got corrupted because your computer did something else when it was tranferred. If that doesn’t work, maybe just delete WP alltogether (don’t touch the database of course) and upload 2.3 from scratch.
Good luck………

Thanks for your reply, Gangleri… I’ll try it again this evening when I get home from work.

Does anyone else have any suggestions? This is the most trouble I’ve ever had with WordPress!

I tried Gangleri’s suggestions and the same result — not working — occured.

Please, can anyone assist me? I feel I’ve done everything that has been suggested, and would appreciate some of the big-brained WordPress users bending their thoughts to this problem!

I find solution in my case. Reason was plugin dd-formmailer. After I delete it everything is ok. Then I upload same plugin again and activate it and now all works like charm.