If you’re using the latest version of Ultimate Tag Warrior and plan to upgrade to WordPress 2.1, don’t!

While I was looking for a fix for my trackback problem, I found out that using Ultimate Tag Warrior version 3.141592 with WordPress 2.1 will cause you to lose all your tags on a post whenever a new comment is added, deleted, or unapproved. I was guilty of using both so I checked my recent posts after the WordPress upgrade and true enough, my tags were all gone. I had to add all the tags back for each post.

Ultimate Tag Warrior is a very good plugin however, the current version doesn’t work with WordPress 2.1. This issue has already been verified as a bug and expect to see an update.

In the meantime, if you’re also a victim of this don’t fret. Moeffju has a manual fix for it. Below is the steps on how to do it.

How to fix it:

1. In the UTW folder look for: -actions.php & -actions-wordpress2.php.
2. Open both files with your text editor.
3. Look for function ultimate_save_tags($postID).
(-actions.php go to line 499 and -actions-wordpress2.php go to line 424).
4. Right after the curly bracket “{“, insert these lines:

if (!is_admin()) return $postID;
if (!isset($_POST['tagset'])) return $postID;

5. Save the files, upload them via FTP & overwrite existing files.

That should fix the problem. I also did this and so far it has solved the issue.

If you would like to try another plugin to work with your tags, another option is to use Bunny’s Technorati Tags.

UPDATED: 1/25/07

Upgrading to WordPress 2.1 wasn’t that difficult as I thought it would be. After talking to Abe of Yugatech, and how he upgraded to WordPress 2.1, I was convinced that I could do it and that I didn’t have to wait that long to upgrade.

In my earlier post, I mentioned about plugin compatibility. It turns out that it isn’t that much of a problem. Alex King also mentioned about this in his recent post. I just had to upgrade a few of the plugins that I was using and some of the plugins that weren’t even in the list of compatible plugins didn’t even needed to be upgraded.

Here’s a list of the plugins that I updated:

1. flickrRss
2. WP-Useronline
3. Feedburner plugin
4. Get Recent comments
5. the-excerpt-reloaded
6. WP Database Backup
7. WP-DB Manager
8. Sideblog WordPress plugin
9. Subscribe to Comments

Note: when updating the flickrRss & WP-Useronline plugins, activate them when you already upgraded to WordPress 2.1

For those using Akismet, check your plugin version and upgrade it to version 2.0. I also updated my Tiger Style Admin plugin to v 3.0.

So before you upgrade to WordPress 2.1, you need to do three things:
1. Check your plugins and update them.
2. Check that your webhost’s is running a MySQL 4.0+ version.
3. Backup your files.

You can read more detailed instructions about upgrading to WordPress 2.1 and plugin compatibility from articles by Lorelle VanFossen and Maria Langer.

UPDATE: WordPress 2.1 “Ella” is now available for download.

WordPress 2.1 “Ella” is going to be released tomorrow. This will be the first major release since version 2.0. WordPress 2.1 as any other typical major release will address security & bug fixes and also feature new functionality.

Not all people are happy with the release of WordPress 2.1, mainly because of plugin compatibility. Many plugins won’t work with 2.1 because of the deprecation of database table variables. My blogger friend Jhay talked about this earlier. I still have to check whether the plugins I use for this blog are compatible or not, then I’ll decide whether to upgrade or not.

Here’s a list of compatible plugins.

Are you ready for WordPress 2.1? Will you immediately upgrade? Before you do just that, there are some important things that you need to know about it.

Aaron Brazell talks about the 10 things you should know about WordPress 2.1