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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  • I initially got a blank page too, until I ran upgrade.php and all is humming along quite nicely now. Thanks for the hard work all.

    everything is uploaded, cleared the cache – tried viewing from a diff machine also – nuttin

    Thread Starter Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    cyberhomie: Try renaming the plugin file ? That should stop it loading

    I think there might be a problem with Asymptomatic’s latest release of Exhibit as well, but i can’t be sure. Anyone else have any issues with it?

    Go directly to your admin and try activating a different theme. To deactivate a plugin you can delete it or rename it.

    Mmmmmm :-). Seems to be working so far. Haven’t played with all plugins, but my main functions are just fine, and both trackbacks and pingbacks are now working as advertised on Dreamhost – thanks to the devs for sorting that out, and of course to Podz for the test site[1].

    And a word of advice if I may – people, if you’re going to edit core files, *keep a record* in a text file. Saves a lot of pain later.

    [1] And for everything else he does here ??

    Sh*t!

    My website just doesn’t work anymore after the upgrade. I cannot even login to the admin part. It looked so promising, but there must have been some compatability issue with wp_users_online that I used.

    That is probably the most disappointing upgrade I have ever made.

    The error message is:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_currentuserinfo() in /customers/brams.dk/brams.dk/httpd.www/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php on line 169

    Let me know if there is anything I can do to avoid starting from scratch again.

    I put a # before the BAStats folder (renamed it) in pluggins and that fixed it

    Thanx for the help guys

    I used this guide (mostly, I got lazy and just used my ftp overwrite on the root files) and everything is running smoothly. *thumbs up*

    Also, like I said, I used overwrite on the root files and it worked for me, but it might not work for you. Follow the guide to the letter. ??

    Edit: btw… if you use dropdown_cats with the code edit to template-functions-category.php, the code to comment out is now on lines 196 and 215 (not 208 and 227 as it states in the codex).

    tbrams…just roll back to your v1.5 backup…

    Change the width back from 99% to 95% in wp-admin.css
    then it is better viewable in IE explorer to.
    Search for the following line.

    #template textarea {
    font: small ‘Courier New’, Courier, monospace;
    width: 99%;
    }

    I ran into the same error as you, tbrams. It turns out that I forgot to do step 7; after doing it, though, everything worked fine.

    podz,

    Item #3. In my version of wp-images for WP 1.5, I was missing get-firefox.png — it was coming up as a broken image after upgrading. Not sure if anyone else experienced the missing png file…

    I am confident that there is a severe compatibility problem with the wp_list_user plugin. I have rolled back to 1.5 to disable this and attempt to upgrade again.

    Sorry for the panic – it’s not the kind of surprise I was expecting just before going to bed (It’s 2 mins past midnight here in Denmark).

    vkaryl: Yes, I cleared and refreshed the cache.
    podz: I don’t use any of the themes. Back in the pre-theme day I wrote my own index page and haven’t used the theme system at all.

    And I did run upgrade.php.

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