Upgrade 1.5 > 1.5.1

  • Please read the whole thread – many people have added useful information !

    This applies ONLY to an upgrade from 1.5 to 1.5.1 – it is not the method to use if upgrading from an earlier version.

    It may look complicated – it isn’t!

    1. BACKUP your database
    2. Download 1.5.1. Unzip it.
    3. Open the unzipped folder, and DELETE wp-images. (You have no need for these in an upgrade)
    4. Now open your ftp program and go to your blog directories
    5. On the server, delete the directories wp-admin and wp-includes. Note: If you have “languages” directory in your wp-includes folder (with .mo files) you may want to save/backup those before deleting the wp-includes directory. Upload the new ones.
    6. The Classic and Default themes have been changed slightly so if you wish to, you can upload those to your wp-content folder.

      7. (See the post below this)

    7. On the server and at blog root, delete the old WordPress files and upload new ones. I recommend you do this one by one if you are not sure. Do not delete wp-config.php.
    8. Now run “www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php”

    That’s it.
    You don’t go near your wp-content folder so your themes and plugins are perfectly safe. this is a very easy upgrade – probably the easiest one yet for WordPress.

    Please use a proper ftp client.

    Please don’t think it’s easier to overwrite and not bother deleting files first – you will get errors, you’ll post here for help, we’ll tell you to do it properly, you will and the errors will go away. Far easier to cut that middle stuff out ??

    If you wish, you can delete the following files:
    install*.php
    upgrade*.php
    import*.php

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  • Just following on from TigerTor’s post, I too have modified the default and, although my site still works fine, if there are any neat changes to the templates then I’d like to apply them. Any chance of a list of changes?

    It’s working for me @ https://www.allaboutmadonna.com !!!

    I have problems with login in my comments. The name-mail-url fields are not appearing, and the only way to comment is being anonymous.
    This is happening in every template

    It should also be noted that you MUST do the following in order for your RSS/Atom feeds to work again after an upgrade.

    1. Login — Of course.
    2. Options -> Reading -> Press “Update” — This runs a database call that corrects an error in the wp_options table that was missed in the upgrade script. See more here.
    3. Open any entry and hit “Save” — Does more SQL voodoo.

    yearginsm – no offence, but that is truly assinine…. stuff like that should be a part of the upgrade.php process. And so we move into day 3 of WP-Watch, and this stuff still sounds like it hasn’t been corrected.

    Tg

    Did two upgrades. The first one went smooth as proverbial silk.
    Thought Patterns
    The site is running just as gooder as before! ??

    The second… not so smooth.
    HolyRoller.org

    No matter what link I click, I get sent to the most recent post.

    Everything is pages except for ‘update’ posts. I guess I am using it more for CMS and website template than as an authentic blog.

    Anyway, the original install (a DreamHost one-click) never seemed to work right anyway. There’s an odd stripe across the header and a few other things.
    Both setups are using the same theme (lazy? yes) so its not a theme issue.
    I turned off all plugins before doing the upgrade (btw, I have rollbacked and re-upgraded 3x now, same problem) then turned them on one at a time to see if one of them was the problem. Nope.

    1- how to fix the links? What have I done wrong or what is not coded right in 1.5.1?

    2 – if I decide to start over (new install of just the 1.5.1 vs the one-click), after remaking the CSS changes and whatnot, the pages and posts will still be there because they are in the database, right? And it should look the same as it does now, except it will work?

    Much thanks in advance. – PaulaO

    I have to agree with TechGnome, but what baffles me is what caused the feed issue, mine didn’t stop working when I upgraded and I certainly didn’t update my reading options….

    holyroller, there does seem to be something wrong with some of your links. For instance, the “Site Upgrading” link is this:

    https://holyroller.org/%22https://www.holyroller.org/archives/2005/05/08/site-upgrading//%22

    Aside from the fact that there are two http links there, there are also some spaces, plus a couple of slashes (//). But I see what you mean about the other links.

    Not sure how this happened, but you might be able to track it down from there.

    DianeV:

    That was it. In the left sidebar I had a ‘get_posts’ command that appearantly was doing too good a job of it! The post links (vs the page links) were a mess! Took it out and viola, the site works.

    Thanks!

    Hello,

    I’ve done something stupid and gone ahead and overwritten just about everything in my old WP directory. Now no matter what I do I get the blank page. Since I’m basically starting from scratch, I have downloaded the latest 1.5.1 untarred everything, moved it in place of the old WP dir. I then put my wp-config.php from the previous install/upgrade into the new WP dir. Still nothing but blank pages.

    I wasn’t a big plugin user, so that’s not the issue. I’m thinking it’s something more to do with either styles or themes, but for the life of me I can’t find which file to edit to change the theme to some kind of default. (I was using the default 1.5 theme previously).

    BTW, I’d done this before and it worked and said it was running 1.5.1. Then I got paranoid and decided to try and follow the instructions on this thread. That’s when the trouble began.

    Any ideas for things to try? I can’t get any pages to load (install/upgrade/index.php). So this is all file editing in vi.

    Thanks!

    Dave

    Hello again!

    Could someone please answer my support question as well! Am I in trouble? ??

    I did the updates, I’ve got two installations, and it went fine. Incorporated the RSS bugfix. Seems fine, too.

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    kentl – please post screenshots as a link. Some of us hate pdf’s ??
    In that directory, the directory itself should have permissions of 755. All the files 644. What are yours ?

    Okey! I didn’t realize that some people didn’t like PDF. All warnings i got were similar to this one:

    Warning: chmod() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/virtual/thisistheurl.com/public_html/wpadmin/
    upgrade-functions.php on line 627

    You refer to ‘that directory’, which directory are you talking about? (hard for me to check the permissions otherwise) ??

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