I have to confess something to all of you: I, your fearless Geek, am AFRAID to upgrade to the newest version of Wordpress.
Yes! It’s true!
Last time I upgraded, it took me several tries and several oops-I-broke-everything-AUGH-@#$%!DAMMIT episodes. Frankly, I am happy with the way things are right now; however, I really need to figure out how to upgrade without creating a mini disaster that my fellow geek friends snicker about at me on Google Talk.
Matt, I’m talking to YOU.
I will probably do it sometime this month. You know, sometime when I am not simultaneously dizzy and congested, like yesterday. Today, thankfully, I am only congested. Hooray for progress! :p
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Just wait a few weeks. Early March, 2.5 is supposed to be released anyway.
http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-plugin.html
easy upgrade option^^ I have used it and it works really well – all ya need to do is activate it as a plugin and go to it’s options :D
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@Marilyn, that’s a good point – but that’s how I broke my blog LAST time. I’m still piecing together exactly how it happened, and I know it wasn’t the plugin’s fault, but now I’m superstitious. Heh.
@Sarah, wow, I didn’t know that. Maybe I will just sit tight until then.
Yeah, up until recently, I didn’t upgrade my blog either. I had a rough time extracting my files locally but it worked on the server… go figure. So I took a deep breath and just did it – but after making sure that I had text file copies of everyone of my posts… only about 100 of them so it was manageable. Would still suck to lose the comments though…
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I remember MY first upgrade on b2evolution.
They DID NOT mention to make a save copy of my media folder and another thing…..
NOW it is in their readme file, guess why…grmbl….
;)
But the last one went smooth like a cat, so, I lost a bit of my fear and learn a bit every time ;)
Good Luck to you though!
(Didn’t you do a Backup? I didn’t the first time, dooh)
I totally messed up my first try at upgrading. And then my second…and third…
I have the auto-upgrade plugin now and I have to say after using it about 5 times on multiple blogs, it works well! Don’t let one bad experience deter you from using it – it could save you a lot of aggravation down the road!
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Here is what inevitably happens to me. I do go ahead and update Wordpress and a week later they have another version or a bug fix or a security issue. “Beta” has a meaning and that’s where the bugs are supposed to be found, not in the version that Wordpress is consistently telling me to download. So I wait for the new round of security issues and then install. But it still happens.
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Hey Rachael! Do you use PHPmyAdmin at all? Because there is a way to backup all your posts (including comments) and I can try and find the link for the instructions if you do… just lemme know.
Thanks so much for letting me advertise on here :D
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I have the same experience, the last time I do upgrading, my wp-admin page was doing weird. I cannot browse any other page without being taking back to the login page, urrgh….I know this maybe my tiny brain that do a mistake but I don’t know how to fix it now :(
You breaking your blog is nothing new.
Man, I should start blogging again
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@gbjazzman, HA! I KNEW if I called you out you’d have to leave a comment! And then you might have to blog! A HAHAHAHAHAAAA!! *clasps hands evilly*
I was worried about upgrading at first too! I don’t know what I did right, but that automatic upgrade plugin worked awesomely. It was like magic. :-)
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Manual upgrades always stress me out.. I’ve been thinking about trying the plugin – since it was endorsed here.. I might just try it.
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Been there, done that. I see a comment that a new version is coming out soon. Ugh! Here we go again.
Good luck!
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I use the same plugin as Marilyn and it works great!
I feel the same way. I have a blog right off my main site and it says all the time how this version is out of date. I tried 3 times to update but could not figure it out and totally messed up the entire blog. Now I have it working but I am scared to update it :(
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Honestly, I’m just to lazy to upgrade. I was using 1.5 well after 2.2 came out and finally upgraded when 2.3 came out. Now since that blog I have to do manually I have since put any other blog as a server update so I don’t have to screw with it ;)
I know the feeling… I hate updating my blog software! It always winds up being more trouble than it is worth.
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Did you know that you blog is out of date?
Blog365 peer pressure. Post, dude, post. If I can do it, you can do it too!
Miss you.
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