I installed the latest version of WordPress 3.1 this afternoon (after making a couple of database backups). I’ve been getting some spam comments from time to time, and thought the upgrade might help eliminate that. I also love to experiment with themes, and many of the new ones require the latest version to work properly.
I’m having a bit of trouble with the widgets. I can add and remove widgets from my sidebar by clicking the “add” or “delete” links, but cannot drag and drop them nor move them around in the sidebar once they are there, except by going into edit and changing the position number. If anyone else has installed 3.1, and has seen this problem and resolved it, I’d appreciate your input.
One additional thing I did was to turn on “moderate comments”. If I have previously approved you to post comments, you are good to go. Your comment will show up immediately. If this is the first time you are leaving a comment, I will get an email and have to approve it before it will go live. I believe since this is the first time I’ve enabled this feature, most of my commenters will have to go through approval one time. But it should eliminate the spam squeaking past Aksimet and making it to my live blog.
I’ll have to see what version I’m running. I thought it was the latest but perhaps not.
I upgraded on April 3, and already there is an update. I think I’ll wait a while before updating again.
Do you use the ftp update? That’s what I do and it is easier than pie. It takes about 4-5 minutes but all I have to do is tell it my ftp login and pw and it does everything.
I have that availability now. Didn’t use it before. It had been a really long time since I upgraded, and I wanted to be sure to backup first. Do you backup every time you upgrade?