So after the easy migration I innocently thought everything would work fine, even after reading migration “horror” stories, mainly faulting mediatemple.

Navigating around the control panel was easy and better organized than before.

But, then I went to open my Gallery2 and the upgrade page appeared. Ok, I’d been using it for the past 2 years without any major problems, so the upgrade page looked like the other install pages used before. Except, I could never get past the 1 step – “verify me” page, getting this:

Error: your login.txt key does not match correctly. Please download a new authentication string from below and try again.

So I tried and tried and by the third try checked online and found this http://gallery.menalto.com/node/50677 post dealing with the same issue. I tried all the suggestions but no luck and no response to my post either. It seams that was on gallery’s head and not mediatemple’s.

I decided after a few days of searching to ditch Gallery (reluctantly at first) and change. That’s when I thought, heck I should just incorporate it into wordpress since I have it now: http://bugambilia.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/adding-a-photo-gallery-to-wordpress/