updating to wp 2.8 and wpmu 2.81

Things were a bit rough when I hastily updated my garden site, ilonasgarden.com to the 2.8 version. Lots of plugin headaches and errors, etc. Most of those worked out, but I have to wait and see if the error that shows up on the admin side when updating “pages” is resolved. Since it doesn’t affect users, I am not as concerned with that. Eventually I think all plugins I need and thmese will update to not cause problems.

The MU was much simpler. I turned off all the plugins and then updated automatically, then turned on the newly updated buddypress plugins. The one glitch was that bbcode showed up in the groups forums here. But copying the new php for the buddy-enable plugin to its place in the bbpress plugin fixed that. All in all, simple and without lots of grief and troubleshooting. I think the improvements to wordpress systems are gradually making things easier overall for the end user ( like me ). There have been some hiccups along the way, so if you need updates to be smooth, make them with a little lagtime, that ways the techies can help iron out everything for the rest of us. Thanks and kudos to all of them!