Upgrading from ancient versions

  • greghellings

    (@greghellings)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    I currently have a blog that is hosted on WordPress 2.0.2 (yes, please, roast me now!). The hosting provider has some strange set of file permissions which prevent me from installing or using any plugins. Gleefully, I am moving to a new host, where I am the system administrator, but I would love to not lose all the old content in that blog.

    2.0.2 has no export feature that I could easily find – what would be the easiest way to get the content of that old blog into a new installation of the latest version of WordPress?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    First and foremost, make a backup of your current database now so that your content is protected should anything go horribly wrong. Then switch to the default theme.

    Read http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

    Next, install 2.0.2 on the new hosting and get the old blog back up & running. Finally run a series of mini-upgrades. I’d suggest something like:

    2.0.2 -> 2.2.1 -> to 2.3 -> 2.5 -> 2.7 -> 2.9.1.

    If all goes well, your old theme will almost certainly need upgrading too.

    DianeV

    (@dianev)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Just a note: I recently successfully upgraded a friend’s blog from 1.2.2 to 2.9 through these steps:

    1.2.2 => 1.5 => 2.9

    As esmi pointed out, if you back up your WordPress files *and* your database, they’ll be safe in any case.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    1.2.2 => 1.5 => 2.9

    that’s a huge jump – I would say you were really lucky

    DianeV

    (@dianev)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Maybe so. 🙂

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