Comments on: Lessons in Upgrading a WordPress blog

By: Blogie

Blogie — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:32:01 +0000

Hi Abe!

Good thing it happened to me when I was not yet feeling WP-know-it-all… Somehow I fracked up my database — I upgraded with not enough ‘resolution time’ and concentration power than needed. It was a valuable lesson learned!

By: ajay

ajay — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:37:30 +0000

Abe, thanks for the help (and the programmer’s) didn’t quite realize that it would turn your world upside down. didn’t know also what happened to my blog but yes, you’re right about the disclaimer part,hehe. I just need to be assured of the back-up

By: eksena

eksena — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:26:58 +0000

Those are some very useful tips you have. I find the last one extremely useful - i call it the “if all else fail” getaway.

By: randy

randy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:03:03 +0000

nice tips yuga.

you can also create a replica of your files and database and try to upgrade it. if all goes well, you can then move the upgraded files or just upgrade the live one.

By: Tingting Rimart

Tingting Rimart — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:25:25 +0000

good tips!

By: ManuelV

ManuelV — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:25:36 +0000

If you’re on Dreamhost, try uploading a zipped Wordpress installation into a different folder, just to see if this work out. DH will automatically unzip it.

If things look all right, then you can do the zip-auto unzip approach in your regular folder.

Just remember to exclude the wp-content when creating your zipped WP installation files.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:47:08 +0000

Yup, having a backup of both the app and the database makes a world of difference.

You get the freedom to do anything you want with the current system and if you **** it up then it’s no biggie.

Of course, it’s important to test that your backup will restore properly first

I’ve had too much experience of other people and myself included that was too confident to the extent of tweaking live servers without a backup. It was a nightmare ….

Oh, btw … a very bad habit that most technical guys have is … documentation = last resort … hehehe … RTFM