Prevention Is Better Than Cure March 7, 2010 at 7:48 am
Wow the W word. WordPress 3.00 is out. Guess we are going to have a learning curve again. Funny isn’t it how when anything new comes out the program wise they use the public to find the bugs. It seems to happen all over. A program comes out amid great fanfare, and then the bugs start appearing. Customarily it’s simple to fix, and it’s just a case of human error a lot of the time. If you wait for a while before downloading and installing it, there is usually a “please read me” instruction that, if you follow it, will prevent a lot of your problems.
WordPress is no different. If you take a few simple precautions you can prevent many of the problems that might occur.
Plug-ins (Turn Off Your Plug-ins)
A vital step, even before you turn the plug-ins off, is to make a backup of the entire section of your WordPress to your hard drive. The second is one of the main things people forget to do is to turn the plug-ins off before they start. This is a vital step. You don’t want the site corrupted. By turning them off before you start; there won’t be a conflict with the upgrade. Once you have finished upgrading you need to scoot on over to your admin panel and upgrade the plug-ins but before you do make sure you deactivate them.
If you have downloaded without turning off the plug-ins you can have errors springing up. Many times the error will tell you where to find it so you can then deactivate it. Failing, which go to the dashboard and deactivate all the plug-ins until the error disappears. Log in through your FTP backdoor and changes the name of the folder holding the plug-ins and make a new folder.
Now copy the Plugs-ins over to the new folder and activate them again. Test them as you go along to make sure you don’t have problems.
New Default theme (Overly Minimal Themes Have Been Deprecated)
With the advent of the new WordPress, we have a new default theme which is named Twenty Ten. The result of this is as it is completely different to the old theme and has diverse features you will need to the old. So what you now need to do is change away from using the default them and only copy over the needed files.
Known Bugs (Some Reported Bugs)
One bug which has been reported several times is that of being stuck in the maintenance file. The answer to this is fairly simple. Log in to your FTP and turn on the hidden folder then delete the maintenance file which will be in the root folder of your site.
2. Static pages have been giving a problem with user messages as has redirection.
3. Events calendar has also reported fatal errors.
Follow the suggestions for Easy Upgrading. (Steps to Hassle-Free Upgrading)
By following the simple steps suggested you should have a hassle free upgrade.
1. Do your backup.
2. Disable your plug-ins by deactivating them
3. Do your upgrade
4. Make sure it all works
5.Turn the plug-ins on again
And there you have it.
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