December 11, 2008
December 11, 2008 – 9:47 pmUpgrade my Wordpress installs from v2.3.3 to the new version 2.7. Much better admin interface and features - though the public facing site part is no different at all.
So the upgrade was easy as could be. Their documentation is very good. It was a matter of doing the phpMyAdmin db backup as described by them, a tar backup of my wordpress directory, copy of the old config.php file, remove the wp-admin and wp-includes directories, extract new tar file with new release, edit config, and login. Honestly it was about as easy as anyone could hope for. Whole upgrade is less than 5 minutes. So three sites down, three to go.
I’ll probably put a formal wiki page together for this, so that I’ll remember how I did this upgrade, when it comes time to upgrade again.
One Response to “December 11, 2008”
Well - I finished up all but one site. So far, its working pretty good - except that I miss the widget layout module from Wordpress 2.3.3 , which I think was MUCH nicer than the 2.7 version. I have found ways around the gaps by using the “widgets-reloaded” plugin, but I dont like having to add plugins to get back standard functionality. In addition, the “Meta” and “Blogroll” widgets seem gone forever … or its just me not knowing how to find them yet. Its still new, so I’ll keep at it for a bit, and follow the Wordpress site for updates and patches.
By Paul on Dec 14, 2008