mathwriter

Why are all my uploads folders empty?
Is my FTP client broken?
There are 10 years of folders, 2011/ 2012/ 2013/ etc
Yet all are empty

Man, this upgrade is getting more and more confusing.
I have no idea how to proceed with the deleting and overlay of only certain folders.

I have a WP site on my hosting plan.

When I first set up the site, I unzipped the WP install on my local drive.
Made a few edits on the local files,
and then FTP uploaded the wordpress/ folder to the host.

Made 125 blog entries over the years.
My local wordpress/wp-content is empty

The hosted wordpress/wp-content has a folder called uploads/
Hosted: wordpress/wp-content/uploads/YYYY/MM/(empty)

Directions say to NOT delete wp-content/ yet its just a bunch of empty folders
What is/was supposed to be in these folders?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by mathwriter.

I am almost ready to try to upgrade from WP 3.2.1 to WP 3.7
One clarification about the Theme.

I am running Twenty Eleven 1.2
(Actually, a Child theme of 2011 v1.2, slightly modified by me)
Admin page says says I can upgrade 2011 to v3.6 automatically.

Before doing the WP upgrade to WP 3.7
should I leave this Theme alone, or upgrade to 2011 3.6

I understand I will upgrade to a modern theme once my WP version is current.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by mathwriter.

I am going to try the upgrade today. I just wanted to make sure I could fully revert back to 3.2.1 on PHP 5.6 in case the upgrade messes up.

Before trying to migrate versions, (WP 3.2.1 on PHP 5.6)
I wanted to make a full online running backup of my WP site
Here is what I tried.

On my host, I made a backup instance of the mySQL database.
Created a new DB, and did export/import of all the WP tables. (Call that DB2)

I then made a copy of my WP 3.2.1 files folder, and edited wp-config.php to point to the new DB2 backup database. (Call these files WP2/)

I then FTP’ed the WP2/ files onto a different domain under my hosting plan.
That 2nd domain is running PHP 7.2

When I tried to run/view the BK WP2 site, I get this error:
“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”
This is because WP 3.2.1 can’t run on PHP 7.2, correct ?

I am already currently on PHP 7.2 and the WordPress 3.2.1 is working fine
You’re saying it can run on 7.2 but not 7.4 ? They are so different?

Just to make sure, can WP 3.2.1 run on PHP 7.4 ? If so, then I could just leave 3.2.1 and have the updated PHP issue resolved. Is that an option?

Wait, at what point do I change the PHP to 7.4 ?
I’m on WP 3.2.1 running PHP 7.2
When I upgrade to WP 3.7, am I still on PHP 7.2?
Then when I upgrade to WP 5.6, am I still on PHP 7.2?
After 5.6 is up and running, then upgrade to PHP 7.4 ?

I don’t really care about the old theme. I am fine with migrating to a generic default WP theme. I only really care about my content. Nothing else. I can always customize later.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by mathwriter.

I have 125 blog entries. As an alternative method, could I just install a fresh copy of WordPress 5.6? And then just copy/paste the HTML of each post? This would probably take 2 hours, and would ensure I don’t destroy my current WordPress site.

I do not want to attempt an upgrade only to have a broken site.

Maybe first I should download my current WordPress 3.2.1 and make sure I am able to restore it elsewhere on my server. Like in a BK folder and then make sure https://www.site.com/BK still runs my old WordPress 3.2.1 site? That way, I will know I Can revert if the main upgrade does not work ?

Thanks Steven.

It’s been a long time since I config’ed anything. 2011.

To recap how I backup my files……..
I am looking at my hosting folders for the WordPress site.
docs/ images/ wordpress/ and a few files like index.php
Can I just FTP copy this entire top level file structure to my local PC, right?

Can you recap how I disable plug-ins and themes?
Under Dashboard -> PlugIns, I just “Deactivite” ?

As for Themes, I customized my own child theme under 20/11
Do I just activate 20/10 1.2, which is showing on my Themes page?

Nevermind, I went into HTML mode, and inserted the following:
& n b s p ;

Yuk!

Note: I had to include “<?php” as the first line of my functions.php
My newly added function works, and so does the overridden one.
dragonsjaw, thanks for the help!

So, it’s ok to redeclare a modified function in the child theme’s function.php? It will use that one, and ignore the one in the parent?

Can you show me a website that is using this?

So, site map is displayed on the website for a user, but the XML is also used behind the scenes for Google for easier SEO indexing?