{"id":813,"date":"2005-11-13T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=813"},"modified":"2005-11-13T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T03:04:35","slug":"to-upgrade-or-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"To upgrade or not to…"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>wp_16<\/a>or a couple of weeks I’ve been toying with the idea to upgrade to the latest WordPress version or to move to a different blogging platform. I’ve been playing with NucleusCMS. Actually, I’ve been making ‘plug-ins’ for that one.\n<\/p>\n

Anyways, I decided to check out the WP trunk on my local server behind me (svn co http:\/\/svn.automattic.com\/wordpress\/trunk\/). Needed to do many more steps though:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Grab a copy of my current data at hoogervorst.ca (mysqldump).\n<\/li>\n
  2. Make a backup of the current WP data (particularly the changes I made)\n<\/li>\n
  3. Copy the trunk data to \/var\/www\/arthur (the test directory).\n<\/li>\n
  4. Copy the original WP-config.php file to this directory.\n<\/li>\n
  5. Copy the original content data to \/var\/www\/arthur\/wp-content.\n<\/li>\n
  6. Ensure that new themes data is copied to that directory.\n<\/li>\n
  7. Set the owner of the directories to www-data (Debian)\n<\/li>\n
  8. Set some dirs to write enabled (wp-content)\n<\/li>\n
  9. Load the mysql dump. Several errors: Dreamhost’s MySQL server is outpacing the one here. Needed to delete MyISAM\/local data from Create Table scripts. Plus remove the ‘macros’. They appear to be part of MySQL 4 (and higher). Funny that: they must have moved to MySQL 4.0 recently.\n<\/li>\n
  10. Load the index page. Oops. Blank.\n<\/li>\n
  11. Run correction script on wp_options table. Options ‘siteurl’, ‘fileupload_realpath’ and ‘home’ needed to set to the local 192.x.x.x paths.\n<\/li>\n
  12. Load index page. Oops. Error with categories. Missing column. Browse through wp-admin directory. Ah. Run wp-admin\/upgrade.php\n<\/li>\n
  13. Done.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s version ‘1.6-ALPHA-2-still-dont-use’, you see above. I’m pleasantly surprised. I don’t care about fancy colours, nor do I care about the ‘visual’ editor. Changes I noticed (+ comments):\n<\/p>\n