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Upgrading Atahualpa

Did you know that if you upgrade the Atahualpa theme from the Update page in the WordPress Admin, it deletes all the custom header images in your website?

Me neither.


Upgrading WordPress in Bulk

Of course there is the old faithful Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion and Upgrading_WordPress_Extended, but there is a lot of fluff there. Old blogs are “You are using WordPress 2.9.1″. Show me the command lines.

Certainly.

“Backup your database. Read Backing Up Your Database for a detailed explanation.” Use Plugin WP-DB-Backup from http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/ Download it – make sure the copy is here. [...]


WP 3.0.1 and Atahualpa

So I upgrade to WP 3.0.1 using Atahualpa and cannot edit pages. Page, edit, left menu but no text, no nothing. Bad. Have to hold off upgrading all the other blogs. Upgrade Atahualpa to 3.5.3. No good.

After weeks of search, found this post which sez PHP4 does not cut it.

What does 1&1 supply [...]


A New WordPress Install

Get the storage folder; redirect the domain there;

Get the code into the target dir: $ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9 .

Copy wp-config.php $ cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Get new secret keys: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

Edit wp-config.php $ vi wp-config.php Change dbname, hostname, password. Change 4 secret key lines to above lines.

Run config: http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

Set [...]