Wriging

Good question, I was wondering the same thing. What's the big deal about 2.3?

I've noticed NOTHING different from 2.2 other than the tag field under my new post window. So I dunno.

There are some deprecated functions and a change in how $wpdb is used. Many themes break because of $wpdb on 2.3 (usually with pulling categories like asides - so watch out for that).

yesterday i watched, paul and derek's sites blow up from the upgrade, but after adjusting they got them up again. i have mamp installed on my mac so i'm going to load it in a test environment to see if it breaks anything.

That's what I was afraid of but my upgrade went over without a hitch.

well the main thing i can say to that is that both derek's and paul's themes are rather complex and customized so something like this could very easily blow shit up. for the average person, other then moving one or two things around, it should basically cause no problems.

I just completed my upgrade, and everything seems to be working properly, except my tags won't display. I assume this is because I'm using a modified loop. Anyone have any experience with this / have to hack an already modified loop to get them to work?

I"m having the same trouble with tags showing up on my modified loop. Still looking for a solution but when find one will post it. I'm using a foreach loop currently to get on 2 pages 2 categories showing the 2 latest posts. It falls over for tags - the irony being setup_postdata() can according the codex use any template tag and it even lists the_tags().

EDIT: Just solved this using rewind_posts() before calling the loop and now have 2 loops happily pulling tags from different categories using the usual loop calling of query_posts(). Not sure if this will help you but just worked like a charm for me.