{"id":236,"date":"2006-02-01T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T20:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=236"},"modified":"2006-02-01T14:30:48","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T20:30:48","slug":"wordpress-201-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/02\/01\/wordpress-201-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.0.1 upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just installed the latest update to WordPress and thought I&#8217;d take a minute to document the process I use for anyone who&#8217;s in the same boat as I am (and also to have these notes saved somewhere when I invariably forget what I did).<\/p>\n<p>The official upgrade instructions are <a title=\"upgrade\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Upgrading_WordPress\">here<\/a>.  The important bits are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back up your database.  I now use a <a title=\"skippy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skippy.net\/blog\/category\/wordpress\/plugins\/wp-db-backup\/\">cool WP plugin<\/a> for this and mail a copy of the backup to my Gmail account.<\/li>\n<li>Back up your current WP install.  I log in to my server and create a .tgz archive of the \/wordpress directory in my Web server and then copy it over to my backup drive.<\/li>\n<li>You should also deactivate your plugins before you upgrade.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, delete the current WP files on your server <em><strong>except <\/strong><\/em>for <code>wp-config.php, <\/code><code>wp-content<\/code> folder, <code>wp-images<\/code> folder, and any <code>.htaccess<\/code> file you may have.  On my server, I&#8217;ve color coded those files and directories with labels (this is OS X Tiger) so I know not to delete them when it comes time to upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed any major improvements with this latest update (yet), but it&#8217;s nice to be current.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just installed the latest update to WordPress and thought I&#8217;d take a minute to document the process I use for anyone who&#8217;s in the same boat as I am (and also to have these notes saved somewhere when I invariably forget what I did). The official upgrade instructions are here. The important bits are: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-3O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}