I decided it was time to do a little site maintenance tonight. I really hadn’t anticipated doing it today, but I heard that the very popular Feedburner FeedSmith plugin had a cross site scripting vulnerability. Luckily, Feedburner jumped right on this one and have an update out. Knowing this, I decided I better update my plugin just to be on the safe side. If you’re interested you can read more about the vulnerability at secunia.

While I was updating the plugin, I thought it would be the perfect time to make the jump to 2.3 of Wordpress. So I took a few moments to backup upgrade my site. One of the first things I noticed after the upgrade was that the manage plugin page notified me of any out of date plugins. I had a few other out of day plugins so I went ahead and updated all of those.

After all my upgrades were complete, I quickly browsed through my site to make sure everything looked like it was working. Well….I wasn’t so lucky with this upgrade. I noticed that every single post title had an database error next to it. A quick read of the error indicated it had to do with a very old plugin called Noteworthy. Noteworthy would add a star next to each post that I had tagged with the noteworthy category. This was nice, but not necessary….couple this with the fact that the plugin hadn’t been updated in years, I thought it best to deactivate rather than trouble shoot. Sure enough, it fixed the issue.

The only other problem I’ve noticed so far, is a database error on my archives page. I haven’t tracked this one down yet. I know what statement is causing the error but my current theme is so hacked together my archives page looks very convoluted and I’m afraid changing something will cause it to break all together. I’m going to have to wait till I have a bit more time to work on this site before the error message will go away. I’ve already spent way more time messing with my site tonight than I intended.

I can only hope Wordpress 2.3 corrects the issue I’ve been having since a few upgrades back with my RSS feed cutting my posts short even though I’ve done everything I know to prevent it. I mean, I don’t use the more tag, I don’t have my feed set to summarize on the Wordpress or Feedburner option pages, and I’ve tried the Full Text Feed plugin.

If you happen to run across any other errors on my site please let me know and I’ll work to correct them. Also, don’t be afraid to offer advice if you know how to fix any thing you see wrong. I’m open to suggestions.