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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.9.1

:: Friday, January 15th, 2010 @ 12:14:49 am

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I finally upgraded from Wordpress 2.8.x to 2.9.1. Luckily, I had checked Wordpress out using SVN, so all I had to do was issue the command:

svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.9/

… to upgrade to the latest version of 2.9.

I prefer to check out branches over tags because I am out of town so often and can’t switch to different tags when I’m away. I have a cron job that runs ’svn up’ regularly so my site is always up to date with security updates within a major Wordpress version, and I make the assumption that no -.-.x release will break my install.

Switching major versions is to big to do without my guidance, so I save those updates for when I’m sitting at my computer.

As a reminder, you should always backup your database and Wordpress files before doing any update. Alex King wrote a good blog entry about maintaining and upgrading Wordpress. It’s worth reading.

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  • Chester

    Also, what's kind of funny about my site "crash," is that I had two Wordpress installs in my hosting account. The one whose MySQL database spontaneously decided to lose the entire Posts table is the one that had been updated to the most recent Wordpress release at the time.



    The one that was a few versions back was and is just jim-dandy.



    The most infuriating thing about getting caught with your pants down/WP+MySQL not backed up is how little information it is, in terms of megabytes. Such small files, by modern standards, hold so damned much.



    But I'm not bitter. Nope, not at all.

  • Chester

    "As a reminder, you should always backup your database and Wordpress files..."



    Oh, great. So now you tell me...

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