Attempting to upgrade blog == Ouch!
As some of you may have noticed, earlier this afternoon I attempted to upgrade the software that runs this blog. I made backups before starting, but didn’t bother to do a beta run on a clone first. After all, this was going to be an easy upgrade right? Wrong. Thank God I made backups before starting.
Turns out there are some significant bugs in the upgrade process having to do with some of the new tagging and taxometry features in Wordpress 2.6. Essentially, the upgrade of the categories tables got royally screwed up. This site describes the problem and a hackish work around to fix it.
I thought about editing my database tables manually, but you know what? I just don’t care that much. Instead, I reverted back to my backups and have the site up and running again. I may upgrade once 2.6.1 comes out if they fix the upgrade problems, but frankly I’ll be much more reluctant to do so in the future.
If you insist on trying to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6, I recommend two important steps:
- Backup your database and complete wordpress installation first
- Install a complete copy of your site (using the backups you just made) and test the upgrade there. The upgrade brought my entire blog down for a little over 30 minutes before I could revert. While that isn’t a big deal to me with the low traffic this site receives, I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone else.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
There is much hoopla over on the wordpress site about this 2.6 upgrade. Yes, it is the database and the most efficient manner of fixing the problem so far is to start with manually editing the database then going into wp-admin to finish up. I am with you on waiting for the next release to see if the issue gets fixed.
Al