Upgrade 1.5 > 1.5.1

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https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/33189?page=1#post-187799

I am a new WP user (Fantastico installed it for me) and I have very little real understanding of WP 1.5’s “guts.” So I am very very worried about doing the upgrade, mainly because, like Jinsan said way up above, I have made changes to things I can’t remember now. Things I did based on reading Codex and WP user’s blogs. I did things by very carefully reading instructions, and they worked pretty well, but I have no idea how or why, or what I actually did.

One change I recall was something that stripped down the Dashboard. Another was deleting install.php and upgrade.php and something else, which people said was a possible security problem. I have deleted some links that came with the default installation, too (notifying blog services, etc.)

My question: Will doing this upgrade automatically put all these things-I-can’t-remember-and-didn’t-understand-at-the-time back IN . . . back as they originally were? I’ve spent hours and hours reading the Codex and the power-user’s blogs figuring out how to change OR get rid of these things-I-can’t-remember-now. I installed a few plugins.

But, in this customizing process, I’m pretty sure that I not only deleted some files, but also MOVED some, maybe in the wp-admin thingy? My use of the word “thingy” should reveal my level of expertise, when it comes to WP.

PS: I’m intending my tone here to be humble and polite and totally clueless, and hopefully a bit funny; NOT bitchy and critical and snippy. But I REALLY don’t want to screw up my working WP 1.5 Kubrick, especially since it is now exactly the way I wanted it. ??

PPS: I guess I could email Matt, although I really hate to bother the guy.

PPPS: I love WP; just scared to mess with upgrading. I don’t even know how to do the first step (“backup your database”)! I suppose I will have to search the Codex for a few hours. The thought of that makes me very very tired. <— joking!!!!

Thanks everyone.

So where do I get Version 1.5 to download? I did not make an backup…so I can’t copy the files… I just changed every file, instead of those I changed after installing WP the first time.

Appears WP users working with ‘pages’ and moving to 1.5.1 are still out in the cold – no pages RSS – no pages search – no main page support (unless you count having to re-do plug-ins etc.)

Is there any formal talk about forking a WP_CMS version?

Ken

Nice easy upgrade. Fast and no problems, thanks for the instructions.

kay9, if you’ve saved the files you originally downloaded for the changes you made, or saved code snippets as text files or similar, it shouldn’t take long to put things back. I’ve pretty heavily whacked at 1.5 since I installed it first in February, and upgraded then re-whacked things in four blog installs in about an hour.

I have a simpler dashboard (not sure from whom now), just copied the same index.php and wp-admin.css into all the wp-admin folders on the installs – works perfectly in 1.5.1 just as it did in 1.5. All my other plugins (you can see the list in Lorelle’s “brag about” thread) worked perfectly EXCEPT the one mentioned earlier (Profile Plugin which is installed on only one site) which was my own stupidity in deleting the relevant data file from the root folder, and which was easily fixed.

My suggestion is that you backup completely not only your database but download to your local machine a complete copy of your currently functioning blog from your server (which is wp itself NOT the database, btw) so that you have a “photo” of what was where and working. Then you can make the changes again as you find them missing in the upgrade.

Vkaryl, thanks for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it. It sounds like you’ve done a lot to your blog(s) like I have, although it also sounds like you understand what you did and where to find things MUCH better than I do.

I did go ahead and copy everything from my WP folder on the server to my local machine. I don’t know how to “backup a database,” though. Is that what I just did without realizing it?

Also, from reading your post carefully, I am still not quite sure about something.

Are you saying that I should go ahead now and try to do the upgrade (as instructed way up above) and THEN upload my saved -on-my-local-machine-files that I have customized (index.php, vars.php, etc.) so that in effect I am overwriting all of the newly installed “upgrade 1.5.1” files on my server? Is that like putting my customizations BACK in place, but allowing whatever background stuff the upgrade does to still be up there?

If that’s what you mean, I may be able to handle it, but I still don’t know how I’ll ever figure out ALL the correct files I’ve changed so I can then upload and overwrite. I hope that when I notice changes I made last month etc. now “missing” in my upgrade, that I am able to understand HOW to re-make all the changes AGAIN, i.e., to basically do all the customizing again, right? Like I said, I don’t understand in much depth at all. If I get an error I will freak out. <—joking, sort of

Thank you VERY much for your help! ??

I’ve been having a problem with the theme editor, I can edit the style sheet it loads up and when I go to theme editor and it saves but it tells me this afterwards “The requested theme does not exist.” and it also happens if click on another file to edit on the right side links it gives me that message. 3 out of the 4 themes I have installed do this, Classic, default, and Journalized-Sand. The Zig-zag theme works perfectly fine. And I also deleted the files posted in this thread before uploading, went thru this step twice already with no success, I rstored the database and uploaded all the old files an tried again with no luck. It’s to late tonite but tomorrow i’ll try a fresh install.

Any ideas on this, I haven’t touched any core files either so I don’t know whats wrong.

sigh, not surprisingly Im getting an error after doing the upgrade:

`Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_currentuserinfo() in /home/blahblah/public_html/wp-blog-header.php on line 169′

thats not a plugin issue, its within the file itself. fascinating.

i fixed this by moving all the functions inside pluggable_functions.php over to template-functions-general.php .. for anyone else thats having trouble

Podz, just wanted to say thanks… ??

kay9, no, your database must be backed up through phpMyAdmin on your server – you go to cpanel, then to MySQL databases, then to the phpMyAdmin link about 2/3 of the way down the page. If you need help with backing up please see if your host has a help file (or you can email me sylvermoon*at*gmail*dot*com, but I will be in and out, so it might be faster from your host – or not, depending on how busy they are).

Don’t upgrade then overwrite with all the older files. Mine was just one example – those two files aren’t critical and I verified that there wasn’t a major difference in the wp-admin/index.php file BEFORE I played with it, and of course, had it borked something, I would have overwritten it with the original file anyway.

I meant that with your original setup available, once you have upgraded and things are working, when you run across something that is not there after the upgrade, you can look through your original setup to see what you need to change in the new setup.

I’m keeping a text file in my local wp install folders which details what I’ve done to which file(s), and on what date I make changes. It helps immeasurably when upgrading. That’s a suggestion for the future….

I’m getting a blank screen even when I try to run the upgrade.php. Please help. I can’t login to admin control panel either.

https://www.bmgwebdesign.com

TIA

Well I deleted the other files as well. Now it’s running again. Well I had to install the plugins again, but this was worth it. Nothing worse could have happened apart from deleting my whole work. ??

Vkaryl THANKs again.

More questions, if you or anyone else gets time:

In Step 7 of the upgrade instructions, it says “7. On the server and at blog root, delete the old WordPress files and upload new ones.”

What old WP files, specifically, does this mean to delete?

In Step 8, it says “8. Now run “www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php”

What does “run” mean? What do I do to “run” it?

Also, it says “if you wish to, you can upload [default and classic themes] to your wp-content folder.

If I don’t do this, won’t my cosmetic changes (my custom header and custom header size, etc.) stay as they were pre-upgrade?

See, I told you I was clueless.
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THANKS much for any help! ??

Kay9: step 7. This is the folder that you see with the folders wp-admin, wp-content, wp-images, wp-includes, and a bunch of *.php files. This is otherwise known as your “wp root folder”, in other words the basic folder where wp lives.

Step 8: open a browser window. In the address bar, type “https://www.yoursitename/yourwpfoldername/wp-admin/upgrade.php&#8221; and then hit the enter key. You should see a message with a link to click about proceed with upgrade. Then you should see an “all done” sort of message with a link back to your site.