Quoth Chad Perrin on Friday, 04 March 2011: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:27:44AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > I have not had a lot of luck with upgrading from within the admin panel, > > but it is still easy to upgrade by downloading the latest tarball and > > simply extracting it over the installation. Then go into the admin panel > > to see if it requires that you press a button to update the database. > > Done! > > > > Of course, make a backup first. > > . . . and Heaven help you if you had to make any nontrivial changes to > your local install of WordPress to make up for some of its many > deficiencies, and don't have a detailed record of exactly what changes > you made, since I know of no upgrade methodology for WordPress that don't > destroy such changes in a way that makes it effectively impossible to > just apply a patch to reintroduce them. WordPress developers apparently > like to substantially change the way things look in all the core files > (thus breaking patches made from earlier versions) without substantively > changing the way things work or the readability of the code. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Yes, I've been bitten by that. Nowadays I confine all of my customizations to plugins or theme files, os I can always drop in their latest version and then check to see if they broke the plugins somehow (which has happened on occasion). -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | [email protected] | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com
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