I have upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5.
Please, let me know if you see anything that isn’t right.
It’s the first time I have done an upgrade without using Fantastico.
My hands are still shaking.
I was a nervous wreck during the upgrade fearing the worst.
I have spent a month going back and forth as to whether I should wait until fantastico has the newest version of WordPress available or do the upgrade by myself.
Yesterday, I had decided to wait. That was yesterday.
Twenty minutes ago, I started the process of backing up my blog, downloaded WordPress 2.5, opened up my ftp, deleted files (I felt nauseous doing that) and uploading the new files. There were a few more steps but I am not here to write instructions on how to do an upgrade.
Once the new files uploaded, I went to my blog to finish the upgrade and held my breath waiting the one second it took to see if my blog was still there.
It was. :)
Some of you may have found the blog down during upgrading which is normal.
The upgrade wasn’t hard to do and I am happy I conquered my fear!
Why put myself through all that stress?
Fantastico is notorious for being two weeks to over a month behind WordPress upgrade releases. With this release that wasn’t a big deal. However, in the past when there were security updates I wasn’t happy to wait. I have wanted to learn to do upgrades by myself for about six months now.
The last few weeks I have read the WordPress upgrade instructions at least twenty times. I even watched a few videos on how to upgrade your WordPress blog.
After doing my homework, I felt pretty comfortable about the prospect of upgrading sans Fantastico but scared.
It didn’t take more than five minutes to complete the upgrade.
It felt like hours.
I like the latest version which is supose to be faster and the dashboard is totally different. I am still trying to find my way around it, but I do like the changes.
I have been updating Vilay’s theme and plugins getting ready for the latest version. However, I will not update his blog manually because if it was not sucessful it may be the end of our marriage! ;)
I should ask for your help as I unsuccessfully could not get the upgrade after I couldn’t use fantastico. Actually I tried about 4 times and then gave up since it just wasn’t working..
Maybe I’ll get courage in a few weeks time once again. :)
Expatraveler, Let me know if you need my help. I like to figure out problems. It is one of my biggest strengths in a work environment.
If you are updating from 2.3 to 2.5 it is much easier than if you are updating from a version before 2.3 to 2.5. There were a lot of changes in 2.3 that broke my blog even using fantastico because of plugin and theme compatibility. Now, I am really careful about checking that my theme and plugins are compatible with the latest version before I upgrade.
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