“I have a blog using 1.5 with heavily modified code.“
Welcome to the club!
“Is it worth upgrading to 2.0“
Depends on your needs. I’ll be doing so in the next few days.
“and will I lose all of the modifications that i made to the 1.5 code“
You will if the mods are to the core source code and you didn’t keep track of them (and so can’t port them into 2.0–easily).
i exxageraged by saying heavily modified. all i’ve done is re-ordered stuff, added rss buttons and a paypal button and made my header clickable
go to http://www.thefifthrule.com to see the mods i’ve made
you said upgrading depends on my needs, what does 2.0 have in it that 1.5 didnt?
If your changes only occured to your templates/theme, you have little if anything to worry about. Just don’t overwrite these during the upgrade. (I assumed you meant customization to the *internal* source files.)
Here’s a great article on what’s new in 2.0 over at Asymptomatic:
http://asymptomatic.net/2005/11/29/2135/whats-new-in-wordpress-20/
yeah, customized internal source files.
how do i not overwrite them during the upgrade and how do i exactly upgrade to wp 2.0
Edit: D’oh, took too long to reply. 🙁
Those are all theme modifications. Those will stay, as long as you don’t over-write them. Core file edits are what get lost when updating, but it doesn’t sound like you did any core file hacking here.
My suggestion is to go to /wp-content/themes/ and rename your default folder to like thefifthrule. Also edit the top of the style.css in that folder to name the theme something else. Then switch to your “new” theme in the admin area.
Then you can upload all you want. If you don’t do the above, the new version of the default theme will overwrite the one you have, unless you don’t upload it.
internal source files = files in wp-admin/ wp-includes/ and the various files in your blog’s installation root directory. These are usually referred to as core files.
yeah, customized internal source files.
how do i not overwrite them during the upgrade and how do i exactly upgrade to wp 2.0
You’ll need to overwrite them and then re-add the modifications or whatever. You can’t just upload some of the files from WP 2.0 and not others.
What CORE files (anything NOT in wp-content) exactly did you edit and for what purpose?
do you guys have aim? please IM me, my sn is FightClubMartyr, it would make this a bit easier
thanks
1 on 1 support is a pain in the ass as others can’t help.
How about #wordpress on irc.freenode.net ? Click here if you don’t have an IRC client.
i’m sorry to be such a noob. please bare with me. the only files i’ve edited are the header, sidebar, style.css and comments (give or take a few) so what exactly do i want to upload for 2.0
Then you have no problem. You didn’t edit any core files, just your theme files which pretty much everyone does.
Backup all of your files and your database and then upgrade. However, when uploading WordPress 2.0, either don’t upload the default folder in /wp-content/themes/ (as it will overwrite your current theme changes) or do what I talked about above and move your customized theme into it’s own folder.
Everything *except* the wp-content/themes/default/ directory and what resides in it. This is where your modified templates reside.
Ha, beat you by 1 second. lol
I blame the server errors… 😉
so if i upload everything and just delete the default theme from 2.0 i’ll be good?
also how do i back up my stuff?
