nickaster

I had a handful of plugins, but very minimal. In fact it wasn’t even a live site yet – just a vanilla install with very minimal tinkering. I do suspect that one of those plugins was causing a problem, but I’ve deleted all of them and would rather not run the fun of re-installing again. I do see that 2.8.1 is now available, so I might give it a shot, fingers crossed.

Okay. Finally got to the point where it let me in. I FTP’d in and renamed my plugins directory. No idea if that’s what stopped the churn or not. Of course, then I was accosted with the fatal error described elsewhere on this forum and resorted to a very long manual upgrade process. Things *seem* to be working now.

I can’t believe WP with its famous “5 minute install” would stand for this. If I were a true newbie I would be totally out of luck with this upgrade. The automatic upgrade system is obviously not ready for prime time.

Interesting. I’m doing a panicked backup now of everything I can find on the server.

Are you able to access anything on WP Admin now? Like your login screen, or even the site itself? I can access other files, but nothing associated with WP works at all.

Update: WTF? This is only getting worse. Now my WP interface is totally inaccessible. I closed the window after almost 30 minutes of churning and now I can’t access my WP site, nor can I log in as admin to try and stop this. What a terrible mistake! What can I do?

Good god. I just started this process and I wish I had read this post. So far it’s just hanging there, doing nothing. SO far I haven’t seen anything get erased, thank god. But the process does not appear to be doing ANYTHING, just sitting there churning away. Did your process actually finish at some point?

i was thinking about using basecamp, but would be neater to use something inside WP… anyone out there have this trouble?

Excellent, that’s what I was looking for, but couldn’t find it. Two questions:

1) Are you aware of any “basename” style plugin that would allow a user to over-write the default settings in the event that they used an obscure title and wanted something different for the URL

2) How does word press handle duplicate titled entries? ie – lets say I use the following custom permalink setting:

/%category%/%postname%/

And I proceed to have two entries in the same category with exactly the same title. What happens?

Finally – 2 bonus questions – can I limit the number of characters that come from %postname% ? ie – lets say I only want my URLs to be 50 characters long so I want it to cut off at a point. Also – how does %postname% convert spaces? Can I specifcy underscores, hyphens, etc… ?

Thanks!!!