Comments on: How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility

By: neon

neon — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:06:22 +0000

Wow, I never realised upgrading could be so involved. If you’re hosted by Dreamhost they’ll do it all with the click of a button within about 10 minutes.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:20:11 +0000

worked perfectly.
thank you!

Darren.

By: Marko

Marko — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:05:59 +0000

Thanks for the arcticle. I too am upgrading to wordpress 2.7 soon and this is just what i was looking for.

By: Don Mega

Don Mega — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:53:33 +0000

Definate confidence builder, but I’m not ready to create any headaches just yet for myself. I’ve already downloaded Coltrane and created a new blog with it just to get familiar with the interface, but upgrading my main blog? Heh. That’s when the old “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”, cliche comes into mind.

I’m thoroughly impressed by the speed and navigation quickness of Coltrane. The auto-update is one feature that has me debating when I’m going to inflict pain on myself by upgrading and finding out some theme issue that will have me up into the wee hours of the morning trying to correct…

Great Post Though. Much needed information.

By: marky

marky — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:09:44 +0000

Personnally, I have a free hosting blog on wordpress platform to act as a staging environment, like in every IT business.

So, for any changes I’ve to make on my website (styles, content etc..) I do this on my test site first and if everything is ok, I can apply same changes on my Website without any – or less – risk.

It’s quite simple, just a little bit of time, but it can prevent some unwanted downtime = lost of traffic = lost of money.

By: ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:51:13 +0000

Here were my steps:
be sure to deactivate all of your plugins and make sure you have time to do this.
1) make back up – i didn’t do this
2) open up the config.php database and password to the new config-sample.php on WP 2.7
2.5)change the config sample.php to config.php
3) delete everything on server that has word press EXCEPT FOR THE CONTENT FOLDER. (this has all your templates and plugins)
4) Upload everything from 2.7 onto your server EXCEPT FOR THE CONTENT FOLDER
5)go into the content folder on 2.7 and upload the index file.

This is what I did. And it worked out fine. I had only one plugin that messed everything up and that was RB internal links but I just saw an upgrade so I assume that that one is all ready fixed.

By: FupDuckTV

FupDuckTV — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:12:41 +0000

I wish this article had been written about 2 weeks earlier. I had a bad experience with my upgrade. I have since recovered and I love 2.7. Definetly backup before upgrading.

By: Enduring Wanderlust

Enduring Wanderlust — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:32:41 +0000

I’m finding Word Press 2.7 to be very comfortable to use. It was a fairly easy process upgrading. The dashboard is very similar, but slightly improved.

I’d backup all files before the change.

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:35:06 +0000

Very nice post on the detailed strategy to install Wordpress 2.7. It was when I decided to move to 2.7, I understood that the famous 5-minute Wordpress installs doesn’t work for updates!! :(

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:05:26 +0000

Darren, thank you for this post/article. This is so helpful although as of now, I am still using the automatic wordpress upgrade plugin.

By: Ben Moreno

Ben Moreno — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:28:58 +0000

I know a much easier and faster way of upgrading. Install the automatic wordpress upgrade plugin and then use it to update to 2.7. Then uninstall the plugin. You will be up and running in minutes and I already did this with two blogs successfully with no problems.

By: julie

julie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:56:25 +0000

thanks! this is just the article i was looking for!

julie

By: Mary@goodlifezen.com

Mary@goodlifezen.com — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:36:10 +0000

Yeah, I’ve upgraded to 2.7 but I’m finding some problems. For example, the Wordpress.com Stats Plugin isn’t working. Anyone found a way around that?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:29:12 +0000

I upgraded with the automatic plug-in and had it done in about 20 minutes.

I usually wait until there is another minor release (2.7.1) but in this case the blog was a work in progress anyway.

Can’t say the new dashboard is doing much for me, but haven’t done any customization yet.

By: Christy Jordan

Christy Jordan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:54:32 +0000

I’ve been very skeptical and leery of upgrading. Thank you for the great article!
Christy

By: Robby G

Robby G — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:52:01 +0000

2.7 is great but still has problems. Well, at least for me. For example inputting images through the button in the post doesn’t work so I have to do it manually.

By: Virtual Assistant Services

Virtual Assistant Services — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:43:04 +0000

Thanks to those of you that recommended the WP Automatic Upgrade Plug In. Prior to this post I was on WP 2.3 and since I had someone else set it up for me originally, I was terrified to try to upgrade it myself, or even install a plug in. Last night I installed the plug in, and a few others as well, and was able to upgrade to WP 2.7!

With infinite gratitude,

Marta Costa

By: Rick Wilson

Rick Wilson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:21:48 +0000

Thanx for this timely post, Darren!

I’ve been one of those people that hasn’t been anxious to upgrade to v2.7 because of all the upgrades in a short period of time and the breaking of alot of plugins & themes I need to use.

I don’t need or want many of new features in newer releases of WP. But I understand security concerns. Just wish that WP would first concentrate MORE on the security issues than new features and then there probably wouldn’t have to be more frequent updates.

Thanx again for the post. It’ll be useful when I fnally get around to the upgrade! LOL

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel 8)

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:07:05 +0000

@Robyn, only for standalone WP installation. WP.com upgrades the code automatically for you.

@Tom, migrating from Blogger.com to WordPress usually is straightforward. I’ve done it several times before without a problem. Your experience might be different thought.

@Stephen, I partially agree. Upgrade should be simple and straightforward but in some cases it doesn’t go as smooth as everyone expects. And for large site, choking is not an option so perhaps this is worth it.

The automatic upgrade plugin doesn’t take the plugin and theme compatibility tests into account… besides that, I am really not against automatic upgrades.

By: Blog Expert

Blog Expert — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:57:52 +0000

Thanks for this. Definitely a great post for people upgrading the Wordpress 2.7.