WordPress 2.6 Update Breaks PodPress
Jul 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting SoftwareUpdating your WordPress-based site to WordPress 2.6 may break your podcast.
Users are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6.
Here’s a typical message from the PodPress forum:
I installed Wordpress 2.6 (the full version, not the Release Candidate) today but am having problems as soon as I activate Podpress. When I try to edit an existing post from the front page or from inside the Admin Panel, I get the error message “Internet Explorer can’t open the page [address of page] Operation cancelled.” but I see it only with IE. With FF it works like a charm. I thought it was out since longer already..that’s what you get for upgrading without informing yourself in advance.
Already last time I swore that I will never install a Wordpress or Podpress update in the 1st month they are released..always have problems with upgrades.
If you’re a podcaster using PodPress, you will want to wait to update WordPress for a couple of weeks. Mighty Seek’s Dan Kuykendall says that a PodPress update should be released within 10 days.
[...] im Internet dann zwar keine Lösung, aber die Erkenntnis, nicht weiter suchen zu müssen. Die Installation von WP 2.6 hat das podpress-Plugin gekillt … es geht einfach nicht [...]
[...] You can read more details here at Wordpress support or here at Podcasting News. [...]
There is a workaround: http://www.mightyseek.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1396
Thanks Phillip for pointing us to the fix. I don’t know if it fixes the IE vs FF problem, but it certainly did fix my problem with being unable to add media files to a post. I can do that now with WP 2.6 and PP 8.8.
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