Wordpress 2.5.1 Upgrade: Changed Files 2.5 to 2.5.1

Disclaimer
I cannot stress the crtical importance of making a full backup of your files and database before attempting to upgrade WordPress. Mistakes do happen, and things do break. Both are shortly followed by you banging your head and cursing. Save yourself the headache…Backup first, then upgrade! :)

I should also mention that these files are being downloaded directly from the Wordpress Trac system. I did not package the zip.

Wordpress 2.5.1 was released.

Here is a zip of the files changed from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.5.1.

WordPress - Best of Breed

It’s a simple as the title of this post…”Best of Breed”. When it comes to online blogging applications, WordPress is Best of Breed.

It’s free! But that does not make it great, just easily accessible.

It has a huge following! Have a WordPress question? It’s answered in a couple hours on their forum. Need some advanced help? You can find easily a WordPress pro online in minutes. Need some special feature? There’s a very good chance that someone else as already had that need too. You’ll likely find that there is a plugin already written for your feature.
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Is your Wordpress .htaccess file causing problems with other files?

That’s the issue I ran into. I was building a WordPress site, and put a billing/invoicing app in a subdirectory of the site.

Well, the default rewrite lines (that WordPress added to the site’s htaccess file) were causing major issues for the billing script (AWBS). It was also causing problems with Apache password protecting of a directory. The WordPress rewrite would take over before Apache would invoke the username/password entry box.

It was a big mess. I spent a long time pulling my hair out over the situation.
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