Upgrading
Posted: Fri 2 February, 2007 Filed under: D4D™, Five Year Plan (now Ten), Geeky, Getting Organised 4 Comments »So, the time has finally come.
Over this weekend, I’m going to be upgrading to WordPress 2.1 on D4D™. Yes, I’m nervous about it. Although I’m not going to go the whole hog and re-rationalise everything at the same time, as mooted a while back when I considered removing the older sections of the site ( to a deafening silence and dearth of comments!) but that may well happen over the next couple of months too.
If I’ve been really organised, I’ll have used a trial site in order to check things out and see what it all looks like, getting the templates in order, making sure I don’t end up with a fucked-up abortion of a site for two days.
If I haven’t been organised, then it’s going to look like a dog’s dinner here for a while as I go through and fix the problems as/when they occur.
Should be interesting, if nothing else.
If I’m honest, when you first mentioned removing some of the old content, I thought I’d look through it – and realised there was quite a bit that I hadn’t previously read (and, it has to be said, is worth reading). So, not sure what to suggest on that basis – perhaps retain it, in some way, or repackage it as a “best of”… who knows?
Aww come on man, grab XAMPP, whack yer stuff in, start up the required bits and bobs.. should take you less then 30mins to ‘test’ against the new WP version.
Although somehow I bet you’ve got something more convulted in mind.. 😉
Cheers for emails last night.
Oh dear, I need to upgrade this weekend too, am not looking forward to it. Might start with my brother’s neglected blog and see how that goes first. Fingers crossed!
I’ve got XAMPP set up on the laptop, and could do it the way you describe. In fact, I had thought of that.
It’s just that I never quite got round to it, and never remember what I need to do in order to sort out folders/sites in Apache, particularly the config. I know, I’m just crap.