Upgrades a Go-Go
Posted by Paul Woodhouse at April 7th, 2008
Who was it who said change should be incremental?
Obviously some lardy fool.
I managed to upgrade The Tinbasher to WordPress 2.5 on Saturday, albeit with a couple of oddities thrown in to panic me enough to polish the shiny pate of resolved despondency, but not quite enough that I panicked a hole through my pants.
But rather than bed it in and check to see if everything was fine and dandy, I did a cursory check of the important stuff, and all seemed present and correct.
Now although it seemed much leaner and zippier out of the box, instead of playing around I went out and bought a nice new HP M8430F Quad Core PC running a 64-bit version of Vista Premium . The bugger is frighteningly sharp.
So, running the new WordPress on it is something akin to a personal blogging nirvana.
Anyway, I’ve got a lot of media extending to do and other computers to transfer files from, so I’d better crack on. I have to sort out how incompatible some of the incompatibilities are with older versions of software that I’ve got. Not a huge learning curve, but it’s a bit of searching and head getting around - for want of a less peculiar phrase.
So, if you see anything freaking out on you, or you have any cute 64-bit Vista tips, do be a love and leave us a comment.
Just to prove I take note of your activities! Nice new font on the blog, but the comment font sucks. I need my specs!
That makes you sound like my parole officer or something.
I don’t think it’s your eye sight that’s the problem, and I don’t think it’s got anything to do with any tweaks.
I’ll delve into the theme’s bowels and see what I can cock up.
Well, you did miss your appointment on Monday. If this continues we will have to refit the electronic tag. You have been warned!
Hey Paul,
Honest! how easy was the upgrade to Wordpress. I need to I reckon, but cacking myself at the thought of it!
Well I was upgrading from 2.2.1 (I think), and I used WordPress Instant Upgrade plugin: http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instant-upgrade
I’m not saying it all worked flawlessly as i had to tweak a few things as I went along, but it didn’t do anything to leave me in limbo.
Then again, if you back everything up, such as the WP database using the respective plug in and export all your posts you’ll cover your backside.
Also, back up your entire WordPress folder if needs be.
All the instructions for upgrading are included on the plugin page link, and so long as you read what’s on there you should be alright….HONEST!
You are a star mate.Upgraded and running. Great plug in that one