Thank goodness I knew about the forums at www.ads-software.com. I was THIS CLOSE (holds fingers close together) to looking for a new blog platform after getting this database error after upgrading. Luckily the forums advised me to toggle my theme and plugins and I isolated the problem as an old Google Sitemaps plugin.
I was quite frustrated with the installation instructions. It’s a good thing I’d upgraded so many times before so the absence in the quick install guide of a recommendation to make backups was conspicuous! Why are people not recommended to make backups?? Good thing I did!!!!
I’m also annoyed that the quick install guide didn’t advise me that some plugins are not compatible with WP2.3 so I had no idea that they could be the problem. Toggling plugins one by one revealed the issue and I was up and running in no time – after hours and hours of troubleshooting.
Great release but terrible documentation. The poor docs nearly made me ditch WordPress forever. If I did this my first post would be advising everyone to stay far away from WordPress.
For shame. This was a very common problem with a very easy solution, and if I didn’t think to look at the forums I never would have fixed it.
