WordPress upgraded to 2.0 Release Candidate
I upgraded my WordPress installation to the 2.0 Release Candidate tonight. The admin UI certainly is more…busy now. I haven’t decided if I like that or not yet. What I do like is that I unzip’d the file from wordpress.org, copied in my configs, my plugins and my tweaked theme and swapped out the old WordPress for the new one and it just worked. There’s something to be said for how simple it is to upgrade WordPress.
As always, let me know if you notice any issues.
December 21st, 2005 at 3:56 am
Do you have to completly reinstall your blog and basically get rid of the WP directory? Or is this just updateing your current WP.
So well is the upgrade smooth?
December 21st, 2005 at 8:29 am
The short version of the upgrade for me goes like this:
1) Backup your database. This isn’t necessary, but it is a very good idea.
2) Unzip the upgraded WordPress.
3) Copy wp-config.php and wp-content/ from your original install to the unzipped copy of WordPress.
4) Move my current WordPress directory out of the way (mv blog blog.bak).
5) Move the unzipped copy of WordPress to where the old one used to be (mv wordpress-2.0 blog).
6) Hit the upgrade URL (/wp-admin/upgrade.php).
7) Look around the site and make sure everything looks okay.
These are basically the same directions as they have on the WordPress Codex.
December 21st, 2005 at 11:25 am
thx to Ryan … i search for this informations and it was very helpfull.
i hope the new version works better like the last one.
greetings from germany
Andre