[wp-testers] 2.3 Where and what...

[spencerp]

spencerp wrote:
> Ryan Boren wrote:
>> Matt and I have upgraded a number of sites with good results.  Just
>> make sure you are upgrading from 2.1 or later releases.  If you're
>> upgrading from something older the upgrade will bomb.  Fixing that is
>> on the to-do.
>>
>> Category related plugins will likely break horribly.   The UTW
>> importer should work, but I haven't tested it too much lately.
>>
>> Upgrade doesn't delete the categories, link2cat, or post2cat tables,
>> so you can always fall back.
>
> Ok, here's the deal. I just upgraded all my live sites to 2.3-alpha.
>
> spencerp.net - was originally running trunk and utw plugin. Ran 
> upgrade, then went and converted UTW tags to WP tags no problem. Then 
> just modified the theme files like I had other one. Tags are showing 
> fine...
>
> vindictivebastard.net - uploaded 2.3-alpha files. Ran upgrade. Checked 
> front page, and ALL the tags were listed in tag cloud. Tags under 
> posts went bye bye. I then converted cats to tags that went fine. Then 
> re-assigned UTW tags (800 or so) from UTW to WP tags whatever... they 
> all were assigned to posts. Went to front page, no change.
>
> Code on theme files to show tags under posts is this:
> <?php if ( function_exists( 'the_tags' ) ) : the_tags('Tags: ', ', ',
> '<br />'); endif; ?>
>
> Which DOES work on spencerp.net cause I used same code, and the WP 
> tags are showing no problem...
>
> The sidebar TAG Cloud code is this and it's calling ALL the tags, 
> what's the correct way to show only like 50 or whatever?
> <?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=8&largest=22'); ?>
>
> Besides all that, what steps should I take to get all my tags working 
> like peaches and cream again? LOL! Drop specific tables in database? 
> Re-run upgrade again or ... how should I handle this one... Thanks in 
> advance...
>

Going along with that above there, I was just in PhpMyAdmin and noticed 
tons of tags as Categories. I compared this to the database on 
Spencerp.net and there is NO tags in the wp-categories, only the actual 
categories themselves.

I'm pretty sure something went wrong in a previous VindictiveBastard.net 
upgrade, before putting a halt on upgrading this latest time. Should I 
remove all those in under wp-categories EXCEPT for the actual 
categories? Or keep them there for later. Then drop terms, 
term_taxonomy, and term_relationships tables and force another upgrade? 
Then empty the wp-tags table, then do the Cat2Tag import? Please let me 
know ASAP thanks.. LOL!

spencerp