Hassle-Free Upgrades
By patrick, posted August 16, 2008 at 2:20 pm | 1 Comment »
Sam Bauers is soft soaped into simplifying WordPres Upgrades.
This is all for the .org guys. .com people don’t have to worry.
Four Ways to run WordPress
Ease of use verses Customization – the trade off
Upgrade options
Overview of
Four Ways:
- Hosted
- One-Click
- Self Hosted
- Subversion
Ease of Installation – From easiest to hardest.
Ease of Upgrading – Hosted and Subversion is easiest with FTP hardest.
Customisability – FTP & Subversion
Hosted: Main Ones -> Edublogs and WordPress.com
One-Click: Main One: Dreamhost (Also pretty much does Hosted)
FTP: You now have Automatic Upgrading for plugins, and there is a Blog version too
Upgrade Tips:
- Do It Now!
- backup First
- Database and Files
- Check plugin and theme Compatibility
- Deactivate all plugins First
- Switch to Default Theme First
- Don’t kill wp-content
- Don’t forget to run upgrade.php
Subversion:
Lots of benefits
Version Control
Repository where you keep your code (master place)
Working Copy gets checked out by the user
Allows multiple people to work on the design at the same time.
WordPress 2.6 Anatomy
Changing how you keep the files so its “clean”
Seperate the files you touch and the ones the devlopers touch.
Assumptions:
Installing in root direcotry of the domain
Domain is example.com
path to root of website is /www/root/
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