Just a few notes on the upgrade to 2.6. I had waited a while (after reading some privacy concerns with 2.5) to update. I was in wordpress 2.2.3, so two full point releases behind 2.6 (there was no 2.4). If you already weathered the upgrade to 2.5, you probably will not have the issues I did and perhaps a better path would have been to upgrade to 2.5 and then to 2.6 instead. Not sure, I didn’t try it.

Anyway, since after the upgrade you (or at least i) cannot edit category names through the category listing in the admin interface, David Cumps had a nice way of editing the categories through a web interface after the update by specifying each category id (see previous post). However, since I was already mucking around my database anyway, and had my list of old categories in front of me, I just edited the database directly. Definitely a matter of personal preference. In any case, if you are going to muck around the database, make a back-up first (of course) and then be aware of how the old categories map to the new taxonomy:

format = tablename.fieldname
The table wp_terms is basically the replacement for wp_categories
wp_terms.id – essentially the equivalent of wp_categories.cat_ID — use this to know which category you are dealing with.
wp_terms.name – essentially the equivalent of wp_categories.cat_name — the term / category name as it will appear on your site.

wp_terms.slug – essentially the equivalent of wp_categories.category_nicename — the URL-friendly category name, i.e. lowercase, no spaces or ’special’ characters.

wp_categories had a parent id, this is now managed in the wp_term_taxonomy table, as is the count of posts per term, or category. I did not have to edit these at all.

The table wp_term_relationships replaces wp_post2cat. I did not have to edit any of this data.
wp_term_relationships.object_id – essentially the equivalent of wp_post2cat.post_ID
wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id – essentially the equivalent of wp_post2cat.category_id, but NOT the same. Note that it refers to the term_taxonomy_id and not the term id. These are sometimes the same, but not always.

This is all information most likely covered in the 2.5 documentation, but since so little is required to fix the category issue, I thought i’d just mention it here in case any of you are as far behind as i was.

after the recent update to wordpress 2.6, i find that all my categories are blank. A simple google search found that David Cumps had already discovered the problem and was kind enough to post his solution. It may take a while for me to sort through my back-up and get everything linked up again. Free time is not really there for me right now…

Es muß März sein (obwohl, April ist meistens ähnlich)

it must be march (or it could be april, honestly)

Schöne dicke Schneeflocken

nice fat flakes…

wish i had eaten these this morning

ich wünsche, ich hätte diese heute Morgen gegessen…

Gestern Abend haben wir endlich “Das Leben der Anderen” gesehen. Was für ein wunderbarer Film! Der hat mich vom Amfang an ergriffen. Ulrich Mühe hat mich sehr an Ben Kingsley errinnert, besonders in dem Film “The House of Sand and Fog” (Ein Film bei dem ich die Charaktere als Menschen nicht mochte, aber als Charaktere liebte) . Ich weiss nicht genau ob das nur ein Gefühl ist, or sein Aussehen, oder was, aber er hat ein rühiger, starker Mann dargestellt, den man gerne kenne. Ich war traurig zu erfahren, daß er mittlerweile gestorben ist. Wer weiss wir er als Mensch war (ich kenne ihn nur als Darsteller), aber mag er das Leben genossen haben.

Last night we finally watched “The Lives of Others”. What an amazing film. I was completely drawn in right from the beginning. Ulrich Mühe reminded me quite a bit of Ben Kingsley, especially in his role in “The House of Sand and Fog” (a movie in which I didn’t really like the characters as people, but loved them as characters). I don’t know if this similarity for me is due to a feeling, or his looks, but he played a quiet, strong, thoughtful person; the kind of person one would like to know. I was sad to learn that he has since died. I know nothing of him as a real person, but may he have enjoyed life.