Backing Up and Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5

Posted by Dunn on April 14, 2008 – 4:26 pm -

After received notification email from Technorati, I decided to upgrade my WordPress to 2.5. Before I go on with the upgrade process, I backed up my database first. I found couple of plugins for backing up database, but all of them don’t have the restore system. You have to restore the back up manually. Until I found WP-DBManager plugin.

WP-DBManager is a WordPress plugin that manages your WordPress database. It allows you to back up database, restore database, repair database, delete back up database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. It also support automatically scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database. All backing up and restore only with one click. So I choose this plugin to backing up my database.

After done with back up, I deactivated all the plugin. This is what you must do before you do the upgrade process. Since I installed the WordPress using Fantastico that provided by my hosting account, I might as well use it to upgrade my WordPress. Upgrading WordPress with Fantastico is one of the easiest way to do it. It tooks only seconds until it showed that the upgrading process is done. But this system only available if you install your WordPress from the first time using Fantastico, and never use the other method of upgrading after that.

Next I checked my WordPress and yes it had been upgraded to WordPress 2.5. I activated all the plugins again. But ups.. I faced error while activating the Popularity Contest Plugin :

“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error“

And the site could not be open either. So I tried to find the solution for this issue in WordPress Support Forum and I found one discussion about it. The solution was found in Blogvaria :

Open popularity-contest.php and scroll down to line 59.
Replace require (’../../wp-blog-header.php’);
with require (’../wp-blog-header.php’);

And the fix worked like a charm. SimplyDunn can be viewed again, and now it officially runs with WordPress 2.5. One new thing that I found in this new version that I like. It’s the one click plugin updater that already included in the plugin panel. So when there’s a new version of plugin released, they will provide you with the link to upgrade. Just click the link and your plugin will be updated already. So no more manually upload via cPanel.

I’m so released that the upgrade process is done. And the error that I found had been solved fast, not like My Interesting Files issue which took weeks to be solved. And the upgrade process itself, not as hard as I thought. Or maybe because I was using the automatic system instead of manual. I’m planning to do the upgrade for my other site as well, soon. So have you upgrade yours?