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Another area WordPress wins is in upgrades. A few years ago I was burned by a Plone upgrade that failed. That made me stop upgrading the site because I couldn't
by adoyle 17y ago
Another area WordPress wins is in upgrades. A few years ago I was burned by a Plone upgrade that failed. That made me stop upgrading the site because I couldn't figure out how to move forward. I finally pulled the plug on the site. I have a bunch of WP sites and upgrading may be a pain because of having to disable the plugins, it's always worked (knock on wood!).
WordPress also has an understandable database structure (it may make any serious DBMS person gag, but it's simple and malleable) and there's enough info out there that you can learn how to do just about anything if you look hard enough.
Unfortunately, I'm about to need something more CMS-like than WP for some upcoming sites, so I have to figure out what to do.
- falldowngoboom 17y agoI've heard about easy Wordpress upgrades, but never experienced them. Here's my cheatsheet: * download latest.tar.gz and rename * untar * mv wordpress ../wordpress-x.x.x * cd wordpress-x.x.x * cp wordpress-current/.htaccess . [only if wordpress is in site root] * cp -r wordpress-current/uploads/ . * cp -r wordpress-current/themes/ . * cp wordpress-current/wp-config.php . What am I doing wrong? (Also moving from a development install to production is also ugly. I have to search and replace hostnames in the mysqldump of the database!)
- easp 17y agoWell, you could turn that into a shell script... But what I think you are missing is the upgrade option that pops up in your dashboard. Yeah, there are some downsides, like security. I just chown the file tree to the webserver user for as long as it takes to do the upgrade and then back.