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Upgrade to WordPress 2.8

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WordPressMen With Pens has a great post about WordPress 2.8: It’s Time to Upgrade Your Site. They describe what’s new and also reminds us to deactivate plugins before an upgrade.

I was in a rush when upgrading one of my blogs and did a ‘deep end of the pool’ upgrade, upgrading WordPress without deactivating my plugins. The result was that all the site showed was an empty page. It turned out that one of my plugins (Redirection) was outdated and did not work in 2.8. Removing that plugin folder gave me back a working blog.

Running WordPress locally

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WordPressI had a conversation with @greybucket on Twitter about design, he uses WampServer in order to run WordPress local. I had no success with WampServer, the exe-files I dowloaded were corrupt and could not be installed.

I went looking for another server software and found XAMPP for Windows. Then I followed Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP and got it up and running. Now I run WordPress WordPress locally and can test themes and plugins without messing up my blogs.

Update March 17,2009.
I went back to using a sandbox, a WordPress installed at my host. That gives me the option to use the sandbox from several computers.