Upgrade to WordPress 2.6.1
I just upgraded Liberta from WordPress 2.5.1 to WordPress 2.6.1.
I thought I’d share my experience, just in case anyone else are wondering if they should update their stand-alone WordPress installation.
This was probably the easiest CMS upgrade I’ve ever done (and I’ve done many). There were no problems whatsoever!
The procedure I used was:
- Backup the production database and installation.
- Restore the database and installation on my test system (my laptop).
- Copy the updated WordPress files over the existing WordPress files on my test system.
- Apply the core modifications I made to WordPress, to the updated WordPress files.
- Run …/wp-admin/upgrade.php on my test system, to upgrade the database.
- Test if everything works correctly.
- Copy updated and tested WordPress directory from my test system, to a new folder on the production system (I called it ‘blog_upgrade’).
- Renamed existing WordPress directory on the production system (‘blog’ -> ‘blog_backup’).
- Renamed the new WordPress directory (‘blog_upgrade’ -> ‘blog’).
- Run …/wp-admin/upgrade.php on the production system, to upgrade the production database.
- Test if everything works correctly.
Like I said, there were no problems whatsoever.
If you scroll down now to the footer of this page, you’ll see ‘Powered by: WordPress 2.6.1′ being proudly displayed.
