Sunday night was an important day for the Methods In Excel blog, because he got an upgrade. I have been meaning to do this of a while, but have been a little bit nervous about the whole thing. I didn’t want to end up losing all the content I’ve added over the years. Well as it turns out I was worrying about nothing. After I backup the database and the actually blog files (the pictures and workbooks etc.) the upgrade process was as simple and pain free as dragging some files across and clicking a few buttons.
I have only really noticed one problem, that’s that, some apostrophise have been replaced with funny text (“). I’ll just pop through the post and update them as I get time I think. I could probably find some SQL that would fix the problem, but I think it would be a good idea for me to re-read my posts anyway!
I have to say that I’ve not upgraded this blog ever, so the version I was running on came from 2005, which is a good few years in open source terms. I like the new version, and the plugins and themes I use still seem to work OK. I might have a look for a new theme that is capable of exploiting the new version.
So it you notice anything odd around here let me know!
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There’s a WP plugin called Automatic Upgrade that can handle it for you. You just run it whenever you get the notice on your dashboard that there’s a new version, and the plugin does everything for you.
Hi JP,
YEah I have an automatic update option aviable now, which I think is part of the wordpress install rather than a plug in. But I dont thing the version of WP I was on supported automatic upgrades before – it was, verrrrrry old!