spontaneousorder

When I deactivated the “maintenance mode” plug-in, release 2.3 installed fine for me. Thanks for all your help.

So, even though the page for the plug-in says it is compatible with 2.3, I guess that it won’t work while upgrading to 2.3 unless a newer version of php is installed than what I have.

Thanks Michael: I see the compat.php and it does define stripos, but I nevertheless get the “no such function” error. I suppose it’s not getting executed in time, but I don’t know why.

One theory is that I was trying to use the “maintenance mode” plug-in to put up that nice “come back in an hour” screen while I was updating – I saw that suggested somewhere and that people were successfully using that while upgrading to 2.3. I suppose I’ll try again with that turned off and see if that was the problem.

Jeremy: I don’t understand why it’s working for you. I also have php 4.4.7, but WordPress 2.3 fails with “no such function stripos” in wp-includes/query.php. The php manual at php.net/manual/fi/function.stripos.php says that stripos is supported only in PHP 5. That’s why I believe that php 5 is required for WordPress 2.3.