Something that gives me an unreasonable amount of joy is re-lacing boots and shoes. I don’t know why, but I love sprucing up a fancy pair of boots like this. For all my lacing needs, I go to Ian’s Shoelacing Site. My combat boots here are currently using the “Straight (European) Lacing” method.
Very odd. A while ago I decided to start collecting my twitter updates here, as a mad archiving compulsion. I got Twitter Tools working and making a digest post every day, but then I changed something and everything broke. Maybe it’s a sign that I should put more things directly here instead of relying on twitter so much. What I really need is a plugin or interface that lets me post here from Adium. Hmm. That’s an idea.
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If you use WordPress (the self hosted .org kind) and you haven’t upgraded recently, you should do so now. The newer versions let you upgrade automatically right from the dashboard, but going from older versions can seem a little more difficult. It’s not, really. It doesn’t have to be a whole Thing if you don’t want it to be. The best part is, you almost certainly never have to do this again, since future upgrades are much more simple pushbutton affairs.
I’ve done about 30 bazillion of these so far, and here’s how I do it. Keep in mind the best documentation is still the official Codex article, this is just my workflow that I use when doing this.
Step 1: BACK UP EVERYTHING. Use mysqldump and ‘tar zcvf wp-backup.tgz .’ or whatever you prefer if you have command line access. Otherwise use your favorite plugins or other apps to back everything up. Make sure you get all files and the database and put them in a safe place. Don’t forget this step, it’s important.
Step 2: Delete the wp-admin and wp-includes directories.
Step 3: Replace wp-admin and wp-includes from a freshly downloaded and unzipped current version of WP.
Step 4: Delete all your other WP files except the following: wp-config.php, the wp-admin and wp-includes that you just replaced and wp-content. We’ll deal with that one later.
Step 5: Replace all the files you just deleted in step 4 from the freshly unzipped WordPress folder.
Step 6: wp-content needs special handling since you don’t want to delete your themes and plugins. Replace only the plugins and themes that comes with WordPress with fresh copies. This usually boils down to the akismet and Hello Dolly plugins and the Default and Classic themes. There are also a couple of index files in the wp-content and themes and plugins. Make sure to replace those too.
Step 6: Visit your wp-admin login area. http://domain.com/wp-admin or similar, depending on where you have it installed. You’ll be asked to upgrade your database by clicking on a button. Go ahead and do that.
Step 7: You’re done!
Thank you for this! It turns out I may have a need to do this for a few friends and clients in the near future. Simple instructions and perfect timing.
Marty Shue 5:58 am on October 1, 2009 Permalink
Not sure if this will work for you or not – but it is pretty cool : http://www.imified.com/
cobweb 8:11 am on October 1, 2009 Permalink
Whoa, that is pretty neat. I’ll have to see if I can make it do what I need.
Noel 2:53 pm on October 9, 2009 Permalink
You can do that on WordPress.com: http://im.wordpress.com
cobweb 3:12 pm on October 9, 2009 Permalink
That is pretty sweet. I did manage to hack together a bot using imified to update a wp.org install, if I can think of a way to distribute it I’ll have to make a plugin out of it.
Mike 5:41 am on March 22, 2010 Permalink
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