Comments on: WordPress Upgrade PSA

By: Leanne

Leanne — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:54:36 +0000

Shel – I’m always here when you need me.

Maybe I should find something else to do, huh? :pilot:

(totally kidding!!) :friends:

By: This Eclectic Life

This Eclectic Life — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:10:49 +0000

OK…I’m gonna try upgrading later this week. When I screw it up, I’ll be e-mailing you :tick:

By: Leanne

Leanne — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:58:02 +0000

I’m wondering why there was a problem with your upgrade, Jo. Hmmm…

The text widgets scare me in 2.5.1. A few of the designs I’ve completed in 2.5 have vanquished the text widgets after I set them up. I was none too pleased about that!

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:17:45 +0000

Now if my hosting service would get it up for me to install I can get a new theme. I tried yesterday to install a new one and 5 hours later I was back to the old one and had to reconstruct all my text widgets!!! (I think I’m still missing a few)

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:09:05 +0000

Sleeping Mommy – I forgot to mention there *is* a WP Database backup plugin as well – if you want to do it all from the dashboard. The only problem with it is that the bigger the database, the longer the hangup during backup. Sometimes it’s much faster to do a full site backup from the cPanel and pull the DB out if anything goes wonky.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:07:47 +0000

Pam – I hear you. And in a few months, there’s another big jump. I’m not sure about they *why* there are so many, continual improvements are great, and I know the developers must feel that they addressed a majority of the bugs and requested improvements – but someone will always come up with something New! and Improved!

And then we will upgrade again.

Thankfully, it’s a couple of clicks away. Backup, upgrade.

(oh, yes, and pray.)

:friends:

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:05:45 +0000

Phoenix – I’m not sure why yours wouldn’t take an upgrade – you’re with the same host, right? Have you tried the upgrade plugin (after making a backup)?

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:03:21 +0000

Sue! You know I have not purposely neglected you, right?

:sorry:

Let me know if things go amuck – esp. with the plugin.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:59:01 +0000

Robin - I'm surprised the image uploader isn't working on the upgrade. Lisa provided a fix for the .htaccess which may be what you need - it's a host/server related fix. Here's her post about it.