Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:13:23 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mysql missing from my home-page WordPress.... Message-ID: <20110304161323.GA51360@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110304152744.GB55534@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <xw1xbkkdkyggus97ir0cs16q.1299179774858@email.android.com> <20110304002630.GA31751@thought.org> <AANLkTinx=%2BCRKhTGi%2BVe1_JWgjYVHajVGLYt8y3SxEaF@mail.gmail.com> <20110304152744.GB55534@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:27:44AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: >=20 > 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! >=20 > Of course, make a backup first. =2E . . 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. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1xD6MACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXzzgCg22cQMhA0SEZ/e4zMSOA3oBBR ODMAniJodXC7vR6QoSBk7EOQpb3aMrg9 =Wd3e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--
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