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WordPress 2.5

levelzero — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:46:12 +0000

Yet another wordpress update, this time to a new version ..

WordPress 2.5 got released earlier this week and it’s got quite a few nice new features, like a new admin interface, concurrent post protection and an updated version of the visual editor (TinyMCE).

Updating was again quite simple, since I’m using subversion. All I had to do was type the following:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/

After that, I had to run the obligatory upgrade.php of course to get the database updated. Overall it was again a matter of less than 5 minutes.

WordPress 2.3.3

levelzero — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:31:44 +0000

WordPress 2.3.3 was released today with yet another critical update, this time in the XML-RPC implementation.

Updating was fast and easy again, with a total time of 5 minutes again for two blogs. Disable plugins, then run:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3/
After that, enable the plugins again.

Now I wish that the plugins would start working on subversion too, so I can update those the same way.

WordPress 2.3.2

levelzero — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:22:34 +0000

WordPress 2.3.2 was released a short while ago and again I was very happy with the fact that I have chosen the subversion method to install/upgrade wordpress. Upgrading was a matter of disabling plugins and then running the following command:
svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.2/
After that, I enabled the plugins again.

Total update time for the two blogs running now: 5 minutes.

Maybe I should check into a way to make multiple blogs share sources .. that way I would only have to run the subversion command once.

New Site

levelzero — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:30:33 +0000

I set up a new wordpress site yesterday, though this time it isn’t for me. My brother is getting married in june and they decided they’d like their own personal “wedding website”. Since I highly dislike those “standard” sites, I volunteered my services to help them get something a little bit more unique.

Of course I used the subversion way of setting up this blog as well. This way I can keep them updated easily.

I’ve added an integrated gallery into this website called NextGen Gallery. So far, this seems to be working nicely.

Next up is to see how Google Maps can be integrated into this site. No idea yet how I’m going to tackle that.

The site can be found here.

WordPress 2.3.1

levelzero — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:00:33 +0000

WordPress 2.3.1 got released friday and this was the first time that I could find out if the subversion method really would save me some time.

Turns out it’s one single command to update to the newest version:

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1/

After that, I reran the /wp-admin/upgrade.php script (even though there were no database changes) just to be sure and the upgrade was done. It took about 1 minute.

Instructions for upgrading wordpress through subversion can be found here. I definitely think this is worth changing to, it will save you a lot of time in the future.

WordPress 2.3 !

levelzero — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:55:16 +0000

WordPress 2.3 came out yesterday and I decided I was going to dedicate some time today to the upgrade.

I had decided to use the Subversion method to make this upgrade and it went painlessly.
The total upgrade (backup db, deactivate plugins, install new version, run upgrade script, reactivate plugins) took me about 15 minutes and that was including reading the step-by-step “conversion” path listed in above page.

Be sure to check plugin compatibility before upgrading, though.

I also modified my theme to support tags (I hope, this should be visible on this post, since it’s the first one that has tags)

WordPress 2.2.3 released

levelzero — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:54:07 +0000

As the title says, WP 2.2.3 was released. There’s a security fix involved, so I’d suggest everyone to upgrade asap.

Check it here