Herself’s Webtools

I’m finding WP 2.3 to be not as stable as the prior version and regretting my upgrade. I upgraded the last of my blogs late last night. But if you are upgrading here are some tips:

1) Back up your database and do an export back up of your WP blog. You can never have too many backups.

2) Download and save wp-config.php. Open it, read it and be sure you know your user name, server, db name and password.

3) Save your favicon.ico, .htaccess, robots.txt files and then save your template.

4) Make you you have downloaded new versions of all your plugins.

5) Delete your old Wordpress installation, all of it. It will not work if you just upload the new version over the old version.

6) Upload the wp-config.php that you saved

7) Run http://yourwebsite.com/yourWordpressDirectory/upgrade.php

8 ) Upload your template, plugins and the files you saved if they got nuked during the install

9) Turn on your plugins

10) Re-select your template and you should be good to go