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.