Wordpress 2.3.2
January 25th, 2008 by Chris
Wordpress 2.3.2 was released about 26 days ago…and I finally did this update. I always hate doing these. They make it sound simple and easy all the time, but there’s always some “catch” to it. Typically these php-based installations are just a matter of untarring the new version right over the top of your existing version. Most of the data contained in the install is actually in the MySQL database associated with it. But of course, Wordpress is just as tricky as the rest of them.
- Back everything up first. Make a copy of your Wordpress folder somehow (I used cp -a blog blog.backup to get a complete archive copy). Use MyPHPAdmin to export a copy of your database. There’s instructions on the Wordpress site for this.
- Disable ALL of your plugins before updating.
- Pay attention to your wp-content/plugins and wp-content/themes folders. They claim you shouldn’t copy the folder itself over, but merely the contents. I think they’re worried about you doing a replacement of the folders, essentially wiping out your stuff with the stock folders. I just manually copied the files for each folder over, one subfolder at a time. Probably overkill, but I was just trying to be careful.
- Make sure you have a copy of your wp-config file. This file contains information that tells Wordpress how to connect to the database. It shouldn’t get overwritten, but doesn’t hurt to back it up.
- Don’t forget to re-enable all your plugins after your done. I didn’t initially and my site literally didn’t come up because the theme itself referenced some of the plugins (I customized the php code in the theme).
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