Comments on: Good Reasons to Upgrade WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Sun, 19 May 2013 16:09:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tech, How to, Computer, Linux, Dog, Make Money Online with AhTim http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-804965 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:34:58 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-804965 Upgrade WordPress Theme and WordPress 2.3.1

If you did follow my posts, I might looks like slowing down on posting on these few weeks. But I am actually not! I am working very hard to customized my new theme based on Soveryn 1.0 and upgrade my wordpress to version 2.3.1 at once. This is really a…

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3638 Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:33:19 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3638 Ah. Good find! You never know where those little devils will pop up. But you brought up a good point and another story idea. You are full of inspiration. Thanks!

]]> By: Greg Balanko-Dickson http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3636 Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:16:44 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3636 The issue was partly using Editor Monkey plugin, and I discovered missing attributes in the text area comment field. As you rightly stated it was in the theme. Thanks.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3629 Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:46:33 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3629 First, you need to determine what specifically is non-compliant. The WordPress Theme carries most of the weight for compliancy, and therefore, the Theme is the issue if it is the problem. The core header comes from WordPress which might have a problem there, and it is found in the root directory in /wp-blog-header.php. The problem might also be with a conflict with a WordPress Plugin that doesn’t quite work right with the new version.

Track down exactly where the error is and then ask in the appropriate section in the WordPress Support Forum. Plugins with Plugins, Themes with Themes, etc.

Also to search to see if anyone else is reporting similar things. This might be unique to you rather than a bug with WordPress. Something that might have been missed, or added inside of the post you are testing.

Let me know what you find out.

]]> By: remotecontrolceo http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3625 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:43:20 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3625 Lorelle: before the upgrade to 2.0.2 my blog was XHTML and CSS compliant. Now it isn’t and the only thing that has changed is the new version of wordpress. Where and how do I report this type of an issue? It is so frustrating to be constantly having to keep any eye out for these issues.

]]> By: C. Wess Daniels http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3495 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:16:01 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3495 Thanks Lorelle, I appreciate your help.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3476 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:58:26 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3476 Many people are intimidated by the upgrade process. The easiest way to upgrade is to set up your WordPress blog on a hosted server. Then they take care of the upgrading and you don’t have to think about it.

Unfortunately, this can cause problems with upgrades such as the one for WordPress 2.0 when some WordPress Plugins went bork in the night. Keep your WordPress Plugins updated and this won’t be such a problem.

Honestly, I’ve done this dozens and dozens of times. Just follow the step by step instructions. Take your time. Backup everything first. Then go through everything nice and easy. Do not do touch your /wp-content/ folder. If you want, you can even delete it from the zip file before you begin the process so you won’t take a chance.

If you have customized or tweaked files in your /wp-admin/ folder, then make sure you have made notes of all those changes and then change these elements in the new files. It’s recommended that users not change the core programming files of WordPress to make upgrading easier, but people dig in anyway.

Work has been ongoing to make upgrades and installs easier, but nothing is really available to the public yet. Because of the highly customizable nature of the full version of WordPress, auto-installs can cause problems without a heavy dose of checks and balances. As soon as I hear of one, trust me, I’ll be the first to use it. ;-)

]]> By: wess daniels http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3473 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:59:33 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/good-reasons-to-upgrade-wordpress/#comment-3473 Lorelle are you aware of an easy way to upgrade, the way I’ve been doing it seems fairly difficult and a bit dangerous as I am afraid I am going to overwrite something important by FTP the files up.

Thanks for your help.

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