shepherdweb.com

I’m upgrading my site to WP 2.0 this afternoon, so things may look a little out of sorts for a while. Hopefully everything will go smoothly…and not break my theme too badly). If it looks weird, just enjoy it…and come back again in a few minutes. Wish me luck!

Update Progress

[following these instructions]

• 12:40 pm - Downloaded and extracted WordPress package
• 12:43 pm - Database backed up
• 12:44 pm - Site Files backed up
• 12:45 pm - Backups Verified
• 12:46 pm - All plugins deactivated
• 12:47 pm - Verified all initial steps complete
• 12:52 pm - Began deleting old WordPress Files (see you on the other side! *crosses fingers*)
• 1:06 pm - New WordPress files loaded; ran Upgrade
• 1:10 pm - Updated Permalinks and .htaccess
• 1:12 pm - Activated “Author Highlight” plugin and verified that it was functioning correctly
• 1:18 pm - Activated “Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer” plugin and verified that it was functioning correctly.
• 1:20 pm - Fixed broken link to image (I’m assuming this was caused by the permalinks)
• 1:21 pm - Discovered broken link (/Laboratory/)
• 1:25 pm - Found the cause of the broken link…there is already a directory called “laboratory”…so permalinks don’t work
• 1:30 pm - Changed directory that was causing the problem and fixed links
• 1:40 pm - Discovered issue with html encoded text - WP 2.0 reformats encoded text into plain text…which breaks my code blocks when I edit a page or post containing html encoded text. I hope there is an easy workaround for this!
• 1:46 pm - Tested comments

Success!

It took about an hour overall to do the entire process including backup and debugging afterwards. Some of that time isn’t real fair to count though because I didn’t have permalinks enabled before and that was the main issue I had to debug. If you notice anything broken, please let me know. I’m out!