{"id":42,"date":"2014-08-25T15:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2016-08-18T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T09:31:24","slug":"heroic-wordpress-upgrade-2-1-3-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/heroic-wordpress-upgrade-2-1-3-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic WordPress Upgrade 2.1 &#8211; 3.92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have skipped 7 years of \u00a0Wordpress Development (and was victorious over my laziness) and upgraded to the latest version. I must say that I have expected more troubles. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Upgrading_Across_Multiple_Versions\">As suggested<\/a> I have done 9 incremental updates jumping over two major releases.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The routine was quite simple:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Backup the database (one time action)<\/li>\n<li>Backup the wp-content\/uploads (one time action)<\/li>\n<li>Disable all plugins<\/li>\n<li>Delete everything but wp-content, .htaccess and wp-config<\/li>\n<li>Download each major release <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/\">from archive<\/a> and copy it over the file system<\/li>\n<li>run \/wp-admin\/upgrade<\/li>\n<li>Test<\/li>\n<li>Repeat from point 3 until you&#8217;ve reached your release.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After all done I have even tested the direct upgrade from 2.1 to 3.9.2 and &#8230; it has also worked without issues.<\/p>\n<p>Respect to the WordPress \u00a0Team!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have skipped 7 years of \u00a0Wordpress Development (and was victorious over my laziness) and upgraded to the latest version. I must say that I have expected more troubles. \u00a0As suggested I have done 9 incremental updates jumping over two major releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vladimir-shapiro.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}