Can anyone help me with this?
I have three self-hosted WordPress blogs (azahar-sevilla and the two tapas blogs) that are running on a very old WP version and I would like to upgrade them to the present 2.7 version. I was given some very helpful information by Pauline, who informed me that because my version is so old (2.2.2) I would have to upgrade in increments. She also sent me this link so I could download the in between versions (2.3 and 2.5). And then I came across this support forum page in which whooami explains the steps needed to recover a blog after a failed upgrade, which also explains how to upgrade in imcrements. But I can’t seem to get it enough to dare making the changes myself. And this kind of needs to be done before I can start with this week’s “baby step tasks”.
Pretty please?
casa azahar 
Sorry, my geekiness tends more toward Dreamweaver, Illustrator and Photoshop than php and mysql. Perhaps the geek who helped you with your iphone has the 411 or knows somebody who does. But if you do it incrementally, it shouldn’t be a problem. The instructions in the post were pretty clear even to an ignorant person like me. You haven’t messed it up yet, have you? Just overwhelmed? Next time don’t wait so long to upgrade.
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well, I’m not going to be any help with this one, I’m afraid. Good luck!
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I wish I could help, az. Sadly, the “easy” instructions were too complicated for me to follow…
I hate it when someone comes up with a new version of something and then doesn’t make it straight-forward to upgrade or replace the old or an old-er version with the new one.
I am having the same problem using something which SHOULD have fixes easily available on their site but I have to go to the help forums and get complicated instructions from someone NOT part of the development team to “fix” a stupid problem that has been ongoing for six months and “fixes” that worked a month ago now require even more complicated “fixes” than before…. And they still want me to download the new version which doesn’t work any better than the old version.
One reason why I finally stopped using Norton Anti-virus… “Hey! I PAID for your product and YOU aren’t giving me a service which I can get elsewhere FOR FREE without hassle…. Wonder why I won’t pay for your product, again???”
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we need to upgrade??? WTF?
*overwhelmed by this information, slinks away to eat chocolate in a corner*
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Did your upgrade already fail the first time you tried it and now the blog is broken? Or do you just have to do the incremental upgrade?
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Where is the server your blogs are on?
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This is precisely why self-hosting is not for me. Tech-stupid or just -lazy, that’s me.
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no use looking in my direction AZ 🙂
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Beth, it isn’t broken. I haven’t built up enough nerve to try updating yet. The server is BlueHost (I think that’s what you mean by server?).
No, we don’t need to update here, truce, just on WordPress.org, so you can put that chocolate down!
I have to self-host these, ian, because they will eventually have advertising and stuff. Also, once I learn how to turn azahar-sevilla.com into a proper website it will look more “professional” than just being a collection of blogs.
I found someone who would do the upgrading for a fee, but I still don’t have much work (just 3 classes a week) and so I can’t afford to go that route. Besides, I really need to know how to do this myself. But I’m just so crap at reading instructions. If someone were to show me in person I know I’d have no problem “getting it” and be able to do all future updates no problem.
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Sorry, hun, Me ain’t neither gonna be of any help.
Isn’t there an “upgrade button” to press…?
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You may contact me on twitter for help with your incremental update.
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too late, I’ve eaten it all 😉
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