The random utterances of David Arno

I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and had a bit of a shock when I visited the admin area of my blog. The old drop-down menus supplied by the Lighter Menus plugin had gone, but the new funky menu down the left hand side didn’t appear. So I had no way of navigating around the admin area.

Luckily the solution was straight forward. I simply visited the URL wp-admin/plugins.php and disabled the lighter menus plugin and the 2.7 menus sprung into life.

I’m really glad therefore that WordPress uses nice simple URLs to navigate around the admin area, rather than fancy cookie-based navigation that some systems use. Anyway, if you use WordPress and are considering upgrading to 2.7, make sure you turn off the lighter menus plugin (assuming you have it installed) before upgrading and you’ll save yourself a bit of hassle.