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Upgrade to WordPress 2.6

Almost a month after WordPress 2.6 was released, I finally managed to get myself to upgrade. For this upgrade, I used a plugin from Zirona. It handles the upgrade automatically, and the whole upgrading process was over in less than 10 seconds. I did not have to download the upgrade files, and ftp them back to my server…. all was done by the plugin.

Although the plugin is in its beta version, it did its job pretty damn good. Once done with the upgrade, I tested my site…. and I was surprised that all my previous posts were not displayed. Only the main page appeared and when I click at individual post, nothing came out. Damn….

As usual, I googled. Found an article here. Read it and follow the instructions. Apparently, the wp_categories table went missing. Opened up my backup script, copy the wp_categories create table script and run it in phpMyAdmin. Then, I ran the wp_categories insert script. Then, manually edit the wp_term_taxonomy table as per the instruction. Done all that, but did not work.

Google again, and found this. In that page, there’s a comment:

On the Settings->Permalinks screen, try setting a category and tag base value. Just have the words “category” and “tag” in there.

I did that, and finally, the problem was solved. Thank God.