Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:09:20 -0800 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mysql missing from my home-page WordPress.... Message-ID: <20110304170920.GE55534@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20110304161323.GA51360@guilt.hydra> References: <xw1xbkkdkyggus97ir0cs16q.1299179774858@email.android.com> <20110304002630.GA31751@thought.org> <AANLkTinx=%2BCRKhTGi%2BVe1_JWgjYVHajVGLYt8y3SxEaF@mail.gmail.com> <20110304152744.GB55534@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110304161323.GA51360@guilt.hydra>
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--FN+gV9K+162wdwwF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Chad Perrin on Friday, 04 March 2011: > 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 pan= el > > to see if it requires that you press a button to update the database. > > Done! > >=20 > > Of course, make a backup first. >=20 > . . . 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 > --=20 > 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). --=20 Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://chipsquips.com | http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com --FN+gV9K+162wdwwF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNcRzAAAoJEIpckszW26+RJkAH/15xOBLOSleHP5zHXBbwksKy gueG4CK77pTSFpLC80vlYwdZYeWHdJ9RXULrKsafmkyMvJ+ih6v4poS//r0d1Xey 3vvuxatzQ14spVwpsLDIGzmvVzO7VH6NLy/ThheegDjbwccEBq69KrnW/GcXr+QS S1k0XH93nwJw9z+fKb2Z8qK9gCMnvpRW0+kqRHcPMHVUomi6EiS5I6kOZinD1Qfa 1tDRuEInn6vq2gsooewU73yC6sNUaCy6YguxAQnvcMRDBpcggBtVJxquh5wLe+qx RJE2PX2aJkt7j2Ft5oBDYMpHBENQ+S/m9hpU2id2xtF4AZjyG780wWUyGKE4soI= =C1q1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FN+gV9K+162wdwwF--
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