To upgrade or not to…

Posted on November 13, 2005 by Arthur

Fwp_16or a couple of weeks I’ve been toying with the idea to upgrade to the latest WordPress version or to move to a different blogging platform. I’ve been playing with NucleusCMS. Actually, I’ve been making ‘plug-ins’ for that one.

Anyways, I decided to check out the WP trunk on my local server behind me (svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/). Needed to do many more steps though:

  1. Grab a copy of my current data at hoogervorst.ca (mysqldump).
  2. Make a backup of the current WP data (particularly the changes I made)
  3. Copy the trunk data to /var/www/arthur (the test directory).
  4. Copy the original WP-config.php file to this directory.
  5. Copy the original content data to /var/www/arthur/wp-content.
  6. Ensure that new themes data is copied to that directory.
  7. Set the owner of the directories to www-data (Debian)
  8. Set some dirs to write enabled (wp-content)
  9. Load the mysql dump. Several errors: Dreamhost’s MySQL server is outpacing the one here. Needed to delete MyISAM/local data from Create Table scripts. Plus remove the ‘macros’. They appear to be part of MySQL 4 (and higher). Funny that: they must have moved to MySQL 4.0 recently.
  10. Load the index page. Oops. Blank.
  11. Run correction script on wp_options table. Options ‘siteurl’, ‘fileupload_realpath’ and ‘home’ needed to set to the local 192.x.x.x paths.
  12. Load index page. Oops. Error with categories. Missing column. Browse through wp-admin directory. Ah. Run wp-admin/upgrade.php
  13. Done.

That’s version ‘1.6-ALPHA-2-still-dont-use’, you see above. I’m pleasantly surprised. I don’t care about fancy colours, nor do I care about the ‘visual’ editor. Changes I noticed (+ comments):

  • Changes to ‘Write Post’ page (see picture)
  • Changed to ‘Select Theme’ (preview)
  • Added: Current theme options. Select colours of fonts from within WordPress. Not sure why that’s needed.
  • Uh: Going to links still loads up all the links. Import Links appears to be new: allows import of ‘OPML’.
  • Changes to User/Users pages. Should be moved in to Manage page, no?
  • Changed: Options page. Plenty of option pages plus the rhetorical question stuck there ‘We should really figure out what else to put here’. I’m not kidding!
  • Plus an ‘Import’ page (which could also be moved into ‘manage’).

I should roll up my sleeves.

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