When a plugin, theme, or even WordPress itself are updated, it downloads and saves the files (.zip, extracted files, etc.) to wp-content\upgrade. This is not always desirable. For example, I run a portable version of WordPress from a flash-drive, so I don’t want it using the flash-drive for temp files. I would prefer it to … Read more
Imagine you have a large wp site that is on 3.1 and uses like all features wordpress has (lots of CPTs, is a network-install, has lots of pages/posts with different post-templates, has child themes for the blogs in the network) and also has +30 plugins installed – which are of course all outdated. You now … Read more
I have wordpress 2.7.1 and this is the time i thought of upgrading wordpress as i get ‘Declaration of … should be compatible with …’ errors. The existing wordpress url is like sitename.com/blog/. I want to install wordpress in a new section like sitename.com/blogtwo/ and want to do certain changes/tests as i had done some … Read more
I have a WordPress blog on my server at home, running the latest Debian-maintained version in the 3.x series. I want to try my hand at virtualizing, and I’d like to do it on my blog, using the latest version downloaded from the site. I have read this post, but I want to clarify about … Read more
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I’ve noticed that in my development instance of WordPress that wp_options contains duplicate rows. After some more investigation I found that the primary_key and auto_increment restraints were removed from the option_id column. Does anyone know how this could have happened? I certainly didn’t go in and remove these myself. Some ideas: Bad database import Plugin … Read more
We were recently handed a few blogs/sites to support, that have started way back when wordpress was on v2.1.3 or even 2.0.4 After upgrading the sites to the latest versions (3.4.2 and 3.5) we found that there are files in the root directory as well as the /admin and /includes that are “leftovers” from the … Read more
I’m having trouble trying to upload a zip file WordPress theme that I bought from Themeforest. I’m getting an inactive “upload theme” button, I have tried to reinstall the WordPress theme three times now, but I’m having the same problem. I also tried uploaded the theme through FTP to “content” folder, but this did not … Read more
I have my wordpress install under svn. I was on version 2.9.2. These were the steps I took: saved a copy of my current wordpress directory cd into my top level wordpress directory svn up (just to make sure that I have the latest of 2.9) svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0.1/ . (upgrade) run wp-admin/upgrade.php got this … Read more
I can’t seem to upgrade my custom theme. Whenever I try to uploaded a new package, all I get is: Unpacking the package… Installing the theme… Destination folder already exists. /wp-content/themes/THEMENAME/ Theme install failed. I’ve searched and all I can find is people recommending upgrading over FTP. Sadly, I don’t have FTP access right now, … Read more
