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PostHeaderIcon Blog Upgrade onto WordPress 3.3.1 on Free.fr

Yesterday I upgraded the blog to WordPress 3.3.1. Last version was a but old (2.8 branch), I installed it in october 2009.

Being hosted on Free.fr, I had to use a customized version of WordPress, released by Gaetan Janssens on his blog Petit Nuage’s Stunning World.

The process I followed is basic:

  • back up database via PhpMyAdmin
  • export the blog full content
  • backup current state of (former) remote WordPress code
  • upload WordPress 3.3 via FTP
  • reupload once more (I often happened to have files that Free.fr FTP “missed” to receive, or received partially ; I don’t think FileZilla is the root cause)
  • add a .htaccess (the former one vanished in outer space, I ignore why)
  • login to admin
  • disable all plugins
  • restore default them
  • display the blog
  • enable theme
  • enable each plugin one per one

I encountered some issues, that I fixed after a short look in PHP code. Well… I was a PHP expert ; I am no more :-D. I may speak Spanish better than PHP.

Now it seems to work. So far, having kept the same theme, almost no differences are visible. I only added links and social sharing sections on the left column. Anyway I’d like to change the theme (even though I enjoy it and its Tux 😉 , and I’d like to keep a Linux-oriented style)

Akismet does not work anymore  (more information on Pascal Ledisque’s bloc, in French). I may use Antispam Bee instead.

I also was unable to display Twitter flow: this issue is linked to the previous one: Free.fr prevents WordPress from accessing external HTML, XML and/or RSS flows.

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