mnead

The plug-ins were indeed part of the issue. There was an plug-in update for Akismet in the admin folder for 2.8 that did not get uploaded.

The other issue was that I could not get the new wp-config settings to take. I had updated the new wp-config in the 2.8 folder, matched the settings in 2.5, but it would not work. I ended using the old 2.5 wp-config and just changed a setting or two and it worked.

I just tried again and continue to get the same error. Trying everything possible here to see what might being going wrong.

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: translations in /home/content/t/o/p/top20training/html/wp-includes/l10n.php on line 407

Does anyone know if the order matters on the upload of new files? (for step 2 & 3)???
1. Delete wp-includes and wp-admin
2. Upload new wp-includes and wp-admin
3. Upload new php files

at a loss

Thanks. I did as you said and I was able to at least get the old site back up.

Then proceeded with a fresh install more closely following the directions (deleting wp-admin and wp-includes) and still got the same error message noted above about wp-includes. So, started over again and have my old 2.5 version back up.

Now begining a 3rd try, I see there is one thing I may have missed b/c it did make sense. It is this noted as an additional Step 1 under Step 1 in the Upgrade directions:

1.As a reminder, to extract a tar.gz to a folder use this command, replacing (folder name) with the name of your folder: tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C ./(folder name)

I saved the wordpress-2.8.4 tar to my desk top but I’m not following what it being asked here. Replace an old file with this new one?

And if this is something that is not critical to the upgrade, any other suggestions? I am combing the extended instructions now.

Ok. There all there. But issue still exists. https://www.top20training.com

Thinking through my steps here and where error might have occurred,
when I did try the upgrade to 2.8, I had all the new files override the old ones when the file name was the same. Assume that is correct? Or are there some duplicates files from original that need to stay?

Given the time the site has been down, I just tried to pull all my old files back but that didn’t solve it either. I did notice that the old directory for wp-includes did not have the pomo folder.

thanks!! Appreciate the assistance from a fellow Minnesotan.

I checked and the file does appear to be on the server.
Assuming your are refering to folder: wp-includes/pomo/po ???

Tried uploading old wp-includes folder and new folder to see if it made a difference, but the same error message comes up