Upgrading WordPress And Plugins
I mentioned in a post a few days ago that I needed to upgrade my WordPress blog and how with the help of a really cool plugin a chore that I really wasn’t looking forward to became extremely quick and easy - you can read more about the upgrade and the plugin I used in this post (Upgrading WordPress And Other Odd Bits)
If you, like me, have put off upgrading your WordPress blog because it seemed like a lot of hard work, check out that post and plugin you’ll be amazed at how simple it is.
However, once I upgraded some of my blogs using the above plugin which automatically installs the latest version of WordPress - in this case 2.5.1 - it meant that some of my favourite plugins no longer worked (oh and a side note - I’m not sure which version this started in, but in 2.5 I discovered you can automatically upgrade plugins like Akismet etc with the click of a button - it does it for you - my blogging life gets easier every day)
For the most part my plugins all had updates etc that will now work in 2.5 except 1 - One of my favourites that I use regularly on one of my blogs is/was WP-Amazon- it searches Amazon for you so you can easily put related products in your posts etc (I actually have a post about it on this blog somewhere) I searched through the plugin creators site, and did find a google groups thread on how you can update it yourself to get it to work, but it didn’t work for me - so I went a searching to see what else I could find.
Lo an’ behold I came across another plugin that does, at least as far as I can see, the exact same thing as WP-Amazon but it works in WordPress 2.5+ WP-Amazon Reloaded. Much like the other version you put in your related search term and it brings Amazon products up - you select which one you want and add it to your post. There’s also a short video that shows you the plugin in action. So for those that have WordPress 2.5+ and are looking for something to add your Amazon products to your blog posts - this plugin should be just what you want
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 am
Yep, that automatic upgrade sure makes things easy, and the fact hat it backs up the database etc is a bonus
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May 25th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I just upgraded Wordpress on one of my blogs too. I really like the new look for the dashboard.
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June 25th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I’m glad my plugin came in handy. Just to let you know, there is a new version out on the official WordPress.org repository. I renamed it Amazon Reloaded for WordPress. I encourage you to check it out