July 15th, 2008 WordPress

WordPress 2.6 theme and plugin upgrades

WordPress 2.6 (Tyner) is out, which means it’s time for a round of WordPress theme and plugin updates.

I’ve updated two plugins and two themes:

Please note these are WordPress 2.6-only upgrades. Downloading these for previous versions of WordPress may break your blog.

Continue reading to see which files you should definitely update if you’re using the Structure or Options themes. You might want to clear your browser’s cache or download history if you’ve recently downloaded one of the themes to be sure you get the latest version.

Options theme changes

Here’s the changelog for version 1.2.1.

Critical update files

I advise you to update these files if you are running WordPress 2.6.

  • /app/get-the-image.php
  • /includes/gallery-stream.php
  • /widgets/gallery-stream.php

Enhancements

These are not necessary, but will allow you to set your default avatars from the admin panel, which is a WordPress 2.6 feature. Also, comments.php is ready for the Subscribe To Comments plugin (valid XHTML fix).

  • comments.php
  • single.php
  • author.php

Version changes

These aren’t necessary, but will help you keep track of what version of the theme you’re using.

  • style.css
  • readme.txt
  • functions.php

Structure theme changes

Here’s the changelog for version 1.2.1.

Critical update files

You should update these files for WordPress 2.6 compatibility.

  • /app/get-the-image.php

Enhancements

The enhancements let you control your avatars from the WordPress admin. Also, comments.php is ready for the Subscribe To Comments plugin.

  • comments.php
  • author.php

Version changes

These files will allow you to keep up with what version of the theme you’re using but are not necessary.

  • style.css
  • readme.txt
  • header.php

Now, you can safely upgrade!

Most of the critical upgrade theme files here are only critical if you’re using certain features. I always advise users to stay updated on the software, plugins, and themes they’re using.

Feel free to stop by the forums if you need help or experience any problems. See the changelog files if you’ve made major changes to that file and need to manually upgrade.

Now, as soon as bbPress updates, I’ll be able to update my own WordPress install.

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19 Responses to “WordPress 2.6 theme and plugin upgrades”

  1. Guillermo on Jul 15th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Wow! That was fast!!!
    Thanks!
    I will try it right now

  2. Reinar Svendsen on Jul 15th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Dear Justin,

    I just wanna send you a line saying that you keep impressing me! Impressing me with your high level of service and support, guidelines with a very high degree of userfriendliness, your professionalism in what you do and last but not least your dedication towards development and being a huge inspiration.

    My upgrade of both WordPress 2.6 and Options 1.2.1 just now went smoothly and, of course, error free.

    Many thanks Justin!

  3. Matthias on Jul 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Hi Justin,
    thanks for the fast changes for 2.6
    I updated options theme manually.
    Your changelog instructions were great.

    Matthias

  4. Missy (from Bloggers Search) on Jul 15th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    Nice how you stay on top of your themes. Thanxs for your hard work. Your themes are as good (if not better), than many premium fee-based themes.

    Good work!

  5. Craig on Jul 15th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Awesome Justin Thank you very much for keeping the “premium” free market flowing. I have 3 sites running it now and still find new features. The only thing that makes a good theme is support and updates, and I await M with great anticipation.

    Thanks!

  6. MhawSayar on Jul 15th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    Dear Justin! That’s really fast & good enough Updates! I’m always thanking you for all of your efforts!

    Go ahead! :)

  7. Jylan Wynne on Jul 16th, 2008 at 12:52 am

    Great news, I wasn’t expecting it to be released this early. I was just wondering though why you’re holdind back on your upgrade? What does it have to do with BBpress?

  8. J Mehmett on Jul 16th, 2008 at 1:58 am

    Hi Justin,

    Great! But, I only got the news of WP 2.6 release on my Dashboard release. WP2.5.1 didn’t notify me to update.

    Your change log instruction is nice. Someone can only upload only the modified files instead of overwriting all the files. Error free upgrading.

    So do you mean that WP2.6 is not compatible the current bbPress version?

  9. Raimy on Jul 16th, 2008 at 4:06 am

    All updated here with only 1 wp/plugin related incident!

    I really liked the way you laid out just the changed files and their order of importance. Uploading those files only made my Options upgrade so much easier since I have made some changes to a few core files, only 1 of which was affected by your update.

  10. Aidan Cufe on Jul 16th, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Hey Justin

    The Theme doesnt handle the captain tag on the main page if its at the top of the post.

    It appears that there is a new way of inserting images into a post. and it wraps a captain tag around the image, its also not applying the float left and right but they might be problems for wordpress to sort

    but the caption tag, is appearing on the main page excerpt as code almost, any idea what this might be ? just insert an image at the top of a blog post and save up and look to see on your main page what i mean

  11. Justin Tadlock on Jul 16th, 2008 at 6:53 am

    Guillermo
    Well, I made the changes weeks ago, but my copy is the development versions. It just took me about an hour to apply the changes and test them with the latest release versions.

    Reinar Svendsen
    You’re welcome! ;)

    I’m glad everything went smoothly for you. I’m always so eager to upgrade my WordPress, but I’m sadly awaiting a bbPress upgrade because WordPress 2.6 changed the cookie settings, which makes some user login stuff incompatible.

    Matthias
    Glad you got it going. I tried to keep the changelog informative enough for everyone to manually upgrade. They could’ve been better, but I wanted to go ahead and get the releases out.

    Missy
    I find it’s better to go ahead and stay with the flow of everything. Even if I had to take a little time out of my planned schedule, it was worth it to go ahead and fix some incompatibilites.

    MhawSayar
    I assume everything went smoothly for you then.

    Jylan Wynne
    My forums run on bbPress and there are some cookie problems between the two systems. I’d rather give it a few days than have to deal with the possible headaches involved.

    J Mehmett
    I hope to make these types of updates more common. It was the reason for the huge changes in both Structure and Options 1.2. I had cleared out all the code to make it as easy to upgrade as possible.

    Versions 1.3 of both themes should be relatively headache free once I get them rolled out.

    The bbPress problems seem to be with WordPress’ new cookie system. I believe it’s a minor issue though. I think they’ll get a quick release out soon. Here’s the forum thread about it.

    Raimy
    Most of the core files will probably only ever undergo minor changes, which will make updating the theme very easy.

    I also hope to have some kind of newsletter or something with my upcoming site to let users know when there are updates.

    Aidan Cufe
    Both themes seem to be handling the caption tag fine for me as you’ve described. I added no additional styling for the caption tags but will in the next update. I felt this was pretty minor and most users usually change their stylesheets quite a bit.

    If you have problems, feel free to stop by the forums and link to the page, so we can see what’s happening.

  12. Jylan Wynne on Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    I actually upgraded to 2.6 even though I’ve just started a forum, and the login works. According to the threads that I read about it its because of a few lines of code in the wp-config.php file. You can see what I mean in the wordpress integration settings in bbpress.

    I had these in already as I was having problems logging in to both when setting the forum up.

  13. Sterling Okura on Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    Justin, you are the man. I’ve worked with several premium WP themes, but was amazed by the Options theme. Thanks for the quick fixes for 2.6 version.

    I setup it up for a reggae band and they love it.

  14. Grant on Jul 18th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    Hi Justin,
    Thanks for the great theme - just did my upgrade - took less than 10 minutes and all works perfectly!
    Thanks
    Grant.

  15. Justin Tadlock on Jul 18th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    Jylan Wynne
    Hmm…My local setup just started working correctly yesterday. Logins seem to be working well if I login into bbPress first, which is what most of my users would do anyway. I wasn’t having any success before.

    I’m also running a third piece of software that has an effect on logins too (a secret part of my upcoming Project M).

    I might give it an upgrade this weekend because it doesn’t look like bbPress will be updated soon.

    Sterling Okura
    No problem. Sometimes, it’s easy for me to forget these things because I’m always working with the latest versions of WordPress, but I remember the image script issues popping up a while back.

    The reggae band site is cool. I was listening to the two songs in the sidebar over and over last night as I was coding some things. ;)

    Grant
    Cool. I’m glad all is well. I think this may be the only upgrade I’ve ever done without a hitch. :)

  16. Nathalie HMD on Jul 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Hi Justin,

    Great work! I really love your Options theme, I use it on all my websites.

    I have a problem though:

    On the old Wordpress websites I had it on (version 2.5), when I upgraded Wordpress I had no problem.

    Last day, I built a new website, and pushed Wordpress 2.6 directly there.

    Now my Popularity contest plugin does not want to activate on this website ONLY. I tried the different solutions offered on the support forums I found, but it still doesn’t work.

    Do you have any idea why this does not work anymore? I wanted to give you a “heads up” because I suspect many more will have this problem in the near future.

    Now I don’t want to look like I ask you to find a solution or patch the plugin for me — I’ll surely manage without. But could you think about offering more options for popularity plugins? Is there any other?

    By the way, when I activate the plugin it says:
    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    Thanks a lot for this great theme! You are great!

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  18. Burhan on Jul 21st, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Hi I Just Installed Wordpress and Using Options Theme. this is My site http://downloadhindisongsmp3.com but here Came Problem I’m Unable to Setup Feature Gallery. Dont Know Why i Tried Everything u Shows in Forum and Documentation … Please Suggest me How Can I Fix It…

    Regards
    Burhan

  19. ismail on Jul 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    i love you man

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