{"id":583,"date":"2007-01-29T20:25:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/29\/upgrading-to-wordpress-v21\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:26:13","slug":"upgrading-to-wordpress-v21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/29\/upgrading-to-wordpress-v21\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to WordPress v2.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2007\/wordpress21.gif\" alt=\"WordPress v2.1\" align=\"left\"\/>Going from one version to the newest for a software program like WordPress that I rely upon to operate this web site is not necessarily difficult, but it is always a bit safer to work smoothly, orderly and slowly rather than rushing into the dark.<\/p>\n<p>I started by updating all the plugins I use to enhance WordPress. After checking that they were compatible with WP2.1 or that they had a new version compatible with it, I went and downloaded them before installing them one after the other. I could immediately detect an issue with WP-Polls and I invalidated it after a few seconds to secure the quality of the visits (knowing that there us not yet any online polls, it wouldn&#8217;t create problems for the visitors).<\/p>\n<p>Then, from a safe situation, I could download WordPress v2.1 and install it separately. Importantly enough, there are plenty of details about <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Upgrading_WordPress\">how to make a safe upgrade<\/a>, right in the download page.<\/p>\n<p>Following the instructions was fairly fail-safe and, apart from a minute of file uploading, there was no real impact on the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going from one version to the newest for a software program like WordPress that I rely upon to operate this web site is not necessarily difficult, but it is always a bit safer to work smoothly, orderly and slowly rather than rushing into the dark. I started by updating all the plugins I use to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37,38,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-create-a-web-site","category-new-web-site","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}