There are many guides out there (one in particular I won’t dare mention) about upgrading to 2.5, but I was curious how your experience was. I’ve personally upgraded two of my blogs — one manually, and one using Keith’s awesome WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. In both cases, I ran into no issues aside from a few incompatible plugins (you did check the list, right?). To get the ball rolling, here are several links to some upgrade experiences around the web. My hope is to make this post a resource with a list of upgrade guides and experiences. Please feel free to add your own in the comments below (only one link please). Alex Frison shares with us how to upgrade 2.5 in 5 minutes. Random View shares his experience with upgrading to 2.5. Christer Edwards discusses updating, not one, but multiple blogs to WP 2.5 with no issues. Jeffro2pt0 discusses […]
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This past weekend, I finally had the chance to unveil the new blog design for Jeffro2pt0.com. Because of the new design, I figured it would be a good time to reformat my WordPress installation similar to how you would reformat a PC to place a new installation of Windows on it. This gave me the opportunity to use the built in WordPress Export/Import migration tools. WordPress eXtended RSS: Because I didn’t want the trash in my current WordPress database to be inserted into the new database, I chose to export my content via WordPress into an WXR File. WXR stands for WordPress eXtended RSS. This WXR file will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields and categories. Even though it’s not officially listed as exporting your tags into the WXR file, the tags ARE included. In my case, I was exporting my content from a WordPress install that was at […]
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