Wordpress Update From Hell

Its that time again… The wordpress developers just released a patch/update. Wordpress 2.5.1. It contains one neccesary security vulnerability update and a number of performance enhancements. Since there was nothing wrong with the blog, i opted to download the 3 files that had the security vulnerability in them, and just overwrite my current files with those.. I did that and i got error messages in my admin CP.

So i downloaded the full version of wordpress 2.5.1 and uploaded it over my current installation, but keeping important directories like my plugins, themes and config.php . I uploaded that .. and it still didn’t work. I could view the blog, but i couldn’t do anything in the admin CP. It seemed the WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE, had errored out on a javascript. It basically froze firefox when i was viewing the post editting interface. Whats more i could not publish or save them because my buttons wouldn’t click. I redownloaded the wordpress 2.5.1 and again, uploaded over my current files. Finally it works.. sort of. I can edit, and publish posts. But i can’t edit or add categories, my post buttons keep flashing (see video below) and the visual editor is really, really laggy.…