Upgrading to Wordpress 2.0.5
20 days ago Wordpress 2.0.5 was announced and today I found some free time and took the time to make the upgrade. Here’s how I did it:
cd $HOME/public_html
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
rm -r wordpress.backup
cp -a wordpress wordpress.backup
mysqldump -u root wordpress > wordpress.backup/wordpress.db
Verified that the wordpress.db looked ok, by taking a quick glance at the file with less.
cd wordpress
rm -r wp-admin
rm -r wp-includes
There’s a new default theme, so only delete this if you wish to insert the new default theme.
rm -r wp-content/themes/default
The instructions said to backup any files that you had modified yourself. And I didn’t have any of those 
rm *.php
cp ../wordpress.backup/wp-config.php .
cd ..
tar zxvf latest.tar.gz
I went to my admin-panel in my blog and there was a link there waiting to be clicked that said it was going to upgrade the database. So I clicked it. The page following it had yet another link for the actual upgrade. I clicked that one too. And then it said I was done. Simple as that. Doesn’t seem like there is anything missing.
Edward Aschan wrote,
oh yes there is. It dropped a word in your previous post. “Motala (a small that lies about 45 km from here)” should have town in it. You’d better report this bug to the wordpress team.
Nice to see you posting again. Now I just have to get the proverbial thumb out of my own arse and start updating my sleeping, almost comatose, blog.
November 16th 2006 at 19:40 (7:40 pm) — Using
Firefox 1.5.0.8 on 
Windows XP
Caroline wrote,
YES YOU DO EDDY BOY!!!
Anyways…I should probably go get that upgrade myself…like…now. Or maybe later.
November 16th 2006 at 20:14 (8:14 pm) — Using
Firefox 1.5.0.7 on 
Ubuntu Linux
JenEriC wrote,
You know how it is… Hard work pays off in the long run, but procrastination pays of *now*!
November 17th 2006 at 00:28 (12:28 am) — Using
Firefox 2.0 on 
Windows XP
Mika Perälä wrote,
Edward: Oups! Yes, I reported the bug and they said ‘Bugger off you piss ant! Learn to spell!’
Now it’s fixed!
Caroline: It’s really simple! Just… do it
Jens: Ooooh, so THAT’S why I like procrastination so much!!! I KNEW there was a reason!
November 17th 2006 at 09:46 (9:46 am) — Using
Firefox 2.0 on 
Windows XP