After putting it off for months I finally upgraded this WordPress blog to version 2.6.+ and what a trip it has been. If you have a WordPress blog prior to version 2.5 then hold on to your hats if you plan an upgrade! I wrote about all the cool features of version 2.6.+ on my other site here: Finally Time To Upgrade WordPress. After going through it I may delete that post!
Here is what you need to be aware of or do before upgrading WordPress if you are using a version prior to 2.5:
- Backup: Backup everything including the database and all files and I mean all the files. If you get frustrated with the upgrade you can just upload the backup WordPress files and downgrade.
- Plugins: Make a note of all the active plugins you are using. Write them down, take a screenshot anything just remember what plugins you were using so you can activate them again.
- Backup Categories: Write down your categories and their parent relationships if you use them. This is critical, none of my categories came back with the upgrade and I had to manually edit my database to get them back. I still haven’t figured out how to put subcategories in the proper parent category.
- Backup Widgets: If you can take a screenshot of your blog to note the locations of your sidebar widgets. Or you can view a cached version of your blog later. You will probably loose all your text widgets in the upgrade so you should open all your text widgets and copy them to a text file to rebuild the sidebar.
- Tags: If you are currently using Ultimate Tag Warrior you won’t be in WordPress version 2.5 .+. There is built-in tagging in WordPress now but the tags will be lost until you use the built-in import function for tags. It worked and they all came back and assigned them to the proper posts.
- Deactivate Plugins: If you are not using the Automatic Upgrade plugin make sure you deactivate all plugins before doing a manual upgrade.
- Upgrade Plugins: Make sure to upgrade all plugins before activating them. Activate only one plugin at a time and check the blogs status. If a plugin kills your blog then you will need to delete the offending plugin from your hosting account.
Good luck upgrading!
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To be honest I think I’ll stick with my older version. Im having enough trouble editing PHP as it is let alone having to re-work out how I did everything I’ve already done, which I just know would be the case were I to even attempt to upgrade.
But v. good article and muchas gracias por tu tiempo!
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