2.7 -> 4.1 Update – not downloaded all files

Hi Dominik,

Wow, WordPress 2.7 to 4.1! That’s pretty cool. As for your observation — going from 2.7 to 3.0 to 4.1 intermittently installs the Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen themes — I’d suggest trying to reproduce the issue on a default install of WordPress 2.7 (i.e., no 3rd party plugins installed nor themes), follow your steps exactly — 2.7 to 3.0 to 4.1 — and see if the issue is reproducible or not. And, if so, then you might want to report your findings as a core WordPress bug:

https://make.www.ads-software.com/core/handbook/reporting-bugs/

Hope this helps!

P.S., I myself am going to try it right now using MAMP version 3.0.7.3 installed on my Mac. I will report my findings shortly.

Hi Dominik,

You said above, “at the moment I’m updating all my WordPress-Blogs from 2.7 or 3.0 to 4.1 per ‘one click’ in wordpress-admin.” When I installed a new copy of WordPress 2.7 and then clicked the Please update now link in the admin it took me to an update page where I clicked an Upgrade Automatically button that immediately updated my site to WordPress 4.1. Thus, I am confused how you used the admin’s “one click” method to go from 2.7 to 3.0 to 4.1. See my steps and findings below:

0. Installed MAMP 3.0.7.3
1. Fresh WordPress 2.7 install:
– Active theme = WordPress Default 1.6
– Other theme installed = WordPress Classic 1.5

2. Clicked Please update now link
3. Clicked Upgrade Automatically button [to WordPress 4.1]
– Active theme = WordPress Default 1.6
– Other themes installed = Twenty Fifteen 1.0, Twenty Fourteen 1.3, Twenty Thirteen 1.4, WordPress Classic 1.5

Hi Randy,

thank you very much for your help. I’m sorry, unfortunately we have a little misunderstanding here.

I updated some blogs from 2.7 to 4.1 and some other blogs from 3.0 to 4.1.

A few days ago I updated more blogs to 4.1

3.2.1
3.1
3.4.2
3.0.4

In those versions were same issues to find, but I can’t remember exactly where it was.

I’m very excited about your tests.

I hope there are not more missing files, except in the theme-folder. Is it possible to find that out? Which files are updated normally so I will take a look at the changed date in the filezilla-folders.

Best regards,

Dominik

Did you follow the extended upgrade instructions?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Upgrading_Across_Multiple_Versions

Oh no! I didn’t know that. ??

I’ve upgraded from 2.7 to 4.1 directly.
But my websites are working fine. Should I better delete my database and wordpress now? And reinstall everything?

If your sites are working fine, then there’s no need to do anything except sit back and be happy. ??

The biggest reason that big version upgrades like that are not recommended is that 99% of people find that there’s some incompatibility with a plugin or theme that they are using that is as old as their WordPress version.

Ok, I had a good theme and no plugins. may be that is the reason, why my update was fine.

Hmm, but is it possible, that my database which was updated from 2.7 to 4.1 not working 100% correctly, maybe I don’t see that directly in using wordpress? For example, that some strings in mysql-database or ftp-files maybe not updated. I looked in filezilla for the changed date, and all ftp-files are updated. But maybe some strings in those files are not, I don’t know, driving me crazy. Updated 50 blogs yesterday.

There are some old files in my word-press-folder. Do I have to delete them?

https://fs2.directupload.net/images/150206/q37ys8qn.png

If your site works, don’t touch anything. Just be happy that it works.

You can go and delete any files that you think are not needed, but always keep a backup, just in case you delete something that is really needed.

And just answer one question… If it works, why do you want to play around with it more? The only thing that’s going to happen is breaking stuff, so just be happy that it’s working as it’s meant to.

Well, I updated 50 blogs yesterday and my provider is going to upgrade his server in a couple of weeks.

his new server-system will be:

php 5.4
mysql 5.5
Installation: “xmlwriter”
PHPMyAdmin 4.3

I am afraid, when he is upgrading his server, my blogs would not run anymore, because of my big wordpress-update from 2.7 to 4.1, which maybe lead to missing files or strings.

Then talk to your hosting company about it. That’s really the only person that can help you in that sort of situation.

It should be OK, but just keep in mind that if it isn’t that’s who you need to contact.

ok, thank you. I contacted my hoster and we’ll pretesting a few sites on another server.

cool Cat by the way. Here is mine ??

https://fs2.directupload.net/images/150206/6efwt5c4.jpg

Hi Dominik,

I tested your theory of updating from an older version of WordPress via the one button update to WordPress 4.1 failing to install the Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Fourteen themes. I could not reproduce your issue.

Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, I couldn’t get WordPress 3.0 to work with my version of MAMP 3.0.7.3. So, I couldn’t perform the WordPress 3.0 –> 4.1 test case. Otherwise, I was able to test all the other builds of WordPress you mentioned above.

Note that all testing was done with fresh installs of WordPress using MAMP 3.0.7.3 (configured with PHP 5.6.2 and Apache) as my server platform and Mac Safari 8.0.3 as my browser.

2.7 –> 4.1
– 2.7 default theme = WordPress Default 1.6, other themes installed: WordPress Classic 1.5
– 4.1 default theme = WordPress Default 1.6, other themes installed: WordPress Classic 1.5, Twenty Thirteen 1.4, Twenty Fourteen 1.3, and Twenty Fifteen 1.0

3.0 –> 4.1
– 3.0 default theme = Twenty Ten 1.0, no other themes installed
– 4.1 BLOCKED – could not get MAMP+WordPress 3.0 to talk to Internet

3.0.4 –> 4.1
– 3.0.4 default theme = Twenty Ten 1.1, no other themes installed
– 4.1 default theme = Twenty Ten 1.1, other themes installed: Twenty Thirteen 1.4, Twenty Fourteen 1.3, and Twenty Fifteen 1.0

3.1 –> 4.1
– 3.1 default theme = Twenty Ten 1.2, no other themes installed
– 4.1 default theme = Twenty Ten 1.2, other themes installed: Twenty Thirteen 1.4, Twenty Fourteen 1.3, and Twenty Fifteen 1.0

3.2.1 –> 4.1
– 3.2.1 default theme = Twenty Eleven 1.2, other themes installed: Twenty Ten 1.2
– 4.1 default theme = Twenty Eleven 1.2, other themes installed: Twenty Ten 1.2, Twenty Thirteen 1.4, Twenty Fourteen 1.3, and Twenty Fifteen 1.0

3.4.2 –> 4.1
– 3.4.2 default theme = Twenty Eleven 1.4, other themes installed: Twenty Ten 1.4
– 4.1 default theme = Twenty Eleven 1.4, other themes installed: Twenty Ten 1.4, Twenty Thirteen 1.4, Twenty Fourteen 1.3, and Twenty Fifteen 1.0

Hope this helps!

Sincerely,

Randy

P.S., Very cool cats! ??

Thank you, Randy! I very apreciate your effort. You spent a lot of time to reproduce my problem.

Now, I’m still worry about if some strings or files missing in my updated wordpress-blogs, too.

My hoster will start a testing server for me to pretest the forthcoming update.

Kind regards,

Dominik