Upgrade from 2.3.2

  • Resolved STHayden

    (@sthayden)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    I’m trying to upgrade from 2.3.2. I see a lot has changed. I couldn’t export my old config and use it, the json says it’s version 1.34. So I recreated the fields. I see the new fields have to have an underscore in from of it? I see that old data was stored in wp_postmeta but I can’t find where the new data is stored. I’m hoping I can do the migration of data if I can just find where it should go. Any help would be great.

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by STHayden.
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  • Thread Starter STHayden

    (@sthayden)

    I don’t seem to be able to delete this but I was just in the wrong instance of the server. so dumb!

    Plugin Author Alex Prokopenko / JustCoded

    (@aprokopenko)

    I don’t think automatically migration is possible from 1.34.

    I can suggest to try such actions first:
    1. Install 1.41 (it can update something in DB)
    2. Install 2.0 version
    3. Install 2.2 version – here all old upload fields will disappeared. I don’t remember is there a way to automatically migrate them or not. Please let me know about this.
    4. Upgrade to latest 2.3.2
    5. Upgrade to 3*

    Unfortunately, the correct migrations and data transfer were added only in some of 2.x version (I don’t remember which one). So yes, you can lose some of your data.

    I strongly recommend to read changelog to see what happens in each version.

    If you have simple fields (which are not deprecated), and can re-create them from UI – you can use direct DB queries to replace field names in post meta.
    I can help you with such query, but please try incremental updates first.

    Hi, i just kept my old script and within the old links to solve that problem:

    DISCLAIMER: Please handle with care and test. I am not responsible for errors that might come up with that:
    https://github.com/netzgestaltung/wordpress-snippets/blob/master/old_jcf_settings.php

    kind regards, tom

    cool thanks

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