2.1.3 … My First Wordpress Upgrade
Ok, I just updated to Wordpress 2.1.3 in my first foray into Wordpress upgrading. I can assure you all it was great fun … kind of. You see, I hadn’t been to my phpMyAdmin in a while and I couldn’t remember my password. And then i remembered to check my config.php file. Ha! It was there! Score! So I got in and managed to back up my database without too much trouble.
So while I’m on phpMyAdmin, I decide to change my password. I’ve been updating all my passwords, which I try to do periodically, in case anyone should guess them. Ok, so great, now with all of my passwords updated, I’m all kinds of safer on the intrawebs … one little problem: I forgot to update my config.php file! And stupid me didn’t think of that until about 30 minutes later, when I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn’t get to my dashboard to disable my plugins.
Long story short, I finally got everything working. I’m sure that Samantha and Stephen are laughing at my noob Wordpress skills right about now if they’re reading, though. 2.1.3 fixed a few bugs for me, namely, my options page had some serious issues. Despite my best efforts I couldn’t get rid of “Just another Wordpress Weblog.” As you can see, I’ve fixed that. I also rather like the new “write post” page, especially the tab for code instead of a pop out.
Well, that’s all I really care to say about Wordpress for tonight. I’ve got class in the morning and all …
April 4th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
As my name changed, so did my URL. That one probably won’t work after December.
Not laughing at n00bness. This stuff takes time.
April 21st, 2007 at 8:40 pm
My WP 2.1.3 upgrade was waaay stressful. Let’s just say I temporarily lost everything, but thanks to a great phpMyAdmin backup, I was back in business and just retrieved all the old data through my host’s backup script.
So remember kids, always back that s— up.