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Wednesday evening, I made the switch over to WordPress 2.5. It was a fairly painless process and only took about an hour to update. Here is the process I went through (which I recommend if you plan to update your WP site soon)
1. Backed up my whole site.
2. Backed up the Database
updated 7:45 CST
Today WordPress had released the final version of 2.5. I have successfully installed it into my Sandbox and am playing with it aggressively. I will be adding information as I go, but here is what I had so far:
First of all, for those who don’t know what a “Sandbox” is, this is an area I designated as a test area. In this case, I have a computer at my home in which I installed XAMPP (an acronym for Apache, MySQL, PHP and PERL – the X stands for the “Four”). The Sandbox is a great way to test new plugins, CSS code or anything. One thing to keep in mind in mantaining a Sandbox, though – make sure your Sandbox matches your websites credentials (example – if your Sandbox is running PHP 5 and your website runs on PHP 4, then the test area is pointless).
So Far I have done the following:
Last week we did a clean install of 2.5 and all went smooth. Today we’ll run 2.5 on an existing database.
The First thing I did was backed up the existing Database. Once that was accomplished, I proceeded to install 2.5 in a clean directory.
Next week we’ll talk about installing plugins and widgets to get 2.5 back to where it was before.
So I took the challenge and downloaded the Wordpress 2.5 RC1. I installed this in my sandbox and got aome awesome results. We’re going to take a focus on this – each week we will talk about the setup and how to integrate it into an existing Wordpress blog.
Part I – Installation.
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