Upgrade is done!
Jan 22nd, 2007 by Kirk M
Alrighty then. All files have been uploaded, the upgrade.php run successfully, woke up all the plugins (corrected a few minor errors and deleted an incompatible little beasty) and the blog seems to be back up and running normally. Now if I could only say the same thing for the author. 
The uncooperative plugin was the WP_PageNavi (1,2,3,4…next type navigation that lived at the header and footer) which showed I had 99999 pages. Sheesh. I must have been awfully busy during the last couple of hours. The second error was the King Links plugin showing the link category title but none of the links therein. I found I had to go into the SideBar Widgets menu and change all the category ID numbers for the King Links widgets since WordPress 2.1 changed how the categories were arranged and numbered. Once the correct number was put into the King Links dialog box all worked fine and I got my links and descriptions back.
Otherwise I was quite surprised how (so far) easy it was albeit a bit time consuming. Downloading the entire Wordpress install (all folders and files) to my computer as the first part of the backup process took quite a long boring time but it allowed me to read up on the upgrade procedure, wander around aimlessly and annoy the cats–things like that.
The second part of the backup process was backing up my database which I do using the WordPress Database Backup plugin. That took all of minute then I deactivated that plugin also. This backing up of stuff or course assured me of a painless upgrade. If I hadn’t backed anything up the whole thing would have gone right down the old toilet and I would have ended up with a mess.
Or perhaps I’m just superstitious.
Either way things seemed to turn out okay and since this was my first time doing a major Wordpress upgrade I’ll go ahead and give myself a bit of a pat on the back.
If anyone who may stop by to see what’s going on and notices anything wrong please let me know in a comment or by using the Contact Me page.
