My Wordpress upgrade has left Tiger administrator backend dead
Posted: 23:24 July 1, 2008
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Well surprise surprise when I upgraded my Word Press install to 2.5.1 I didn’t bother checking if my admin console would work on the back end. (I upgraded it as I wasn’t happy with the version before 2.5.)
This left me stuck … able to log in but not seeing a hell of a lot of my options (CSS bugs and so on galore) … sure I could check the html and find the links to what I needed but this is me…
Anyways after a few minutes of feeling half brain dead I realised I just have to put
wp-admin/plugins.php into my url (once I’m logged in of course) and I can deactivate it from there and hey presto its back to normal .. (well the New Normal at any rate) 
Hope that saves someone a few minutes of head scratching. I had been thinking about going into the database and disabling it from there but I’ve not played too much with the backend to know if its really a simple matter of flicking a flag to off on the plugins table.
I’ve also not really been blogging much the last while so hece my confusion when I came back to the admin side of things.
While I’m at it … what the hell does work with 2.5
There’s a nice list of the plugins here as well as those that definitely don’t work down at the bottom
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.5
(also maybe its a Mac Firefox 3 / Safari thing only)
Posted by James
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Hey James, try to avoid blogging in Safari if you can. Safari and the RTE in Wordpress don’t mix too well at all
Thanks for the advice Cormac
I’ve actually pretty much moved over to Firefox 3 for most things now and I’m quite impressed by it.
I don’t think I’ve had a crash yet … and only minor issues.
Not sure if it was safari but at times my machine was completely hanging (MBP) since I’ve stopped using it that much things seem back to normalish
Thanks for the post