• Hi
    I’m currently running my blog using WP 1.02. It’s very stable, suits my needs and hasn’t caused me any trouble. I know nada about CSS, php etc., and editing the layout took me quite some time. If anything fails in the upgrade process I’ll be lost I’m afraid, – so I’m therefore quite hesitant doing the upgrade. What am I missing out on not running WP 1.2,- would you recommend me to upgrade?
    I’ve read the “Read me”-file of WP 1.2 and it states that I should “…be careful not to overwrite anything important”. Well,- what would that be….layout.css I guess…and..? Is there a risk I could lose the post’s I’ve made on my blog?
    Thx!

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  • http://wiki.wordpress.org/1.2-Changelog
    lists some of the reasons you should upgrade.
    The most important in my opinion is that you get to use all these cool plugins.

    The files you should no overwrite are the ones that you have edited/customized to have wordpress work the way you want it to, like, perhaps wp-comments.php or index.php

    If you do decide to go ahead…
    http://faq.wordpress.net/view.php?p=30
    And if you have any worries / concerns at all, post and we’ll try and sort it 🙂

    Thread Starter madsen

    (@madsen)

    Whoa…that was quick….Thank you very much…:-)
    I’ll give it a shot right away…

    Thread Starter madsen

    (@madsen)

    Oh no!!!…..OK, that didn’t work out as I expected…I upgraded to 1.2 and I now get ithe following message when loading my site:
    Database error: [Unknown column ‘post_date_gmt’ in ‘where clause’]
    SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt <= ‘2004-07-25 19:16:59’ AND (post_status = “publish”) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 20
    Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
    What now? You’re welcome to IM me via AIM if you think that would be easier.
    AIM: albanimadsen

    Thread Starter madsen

    (@madsen)

    I can’t even post to my blog now…I get the following errormessage:
    ——–
    Database error: [Unknown column ‘post_date_gmt’ in ‘field list’]
    INSERT INTO wp_posts (ID, post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_title, post_excerpt, post_status, comment_status, ping_status, post_password, post_name, to_ping, post_modified, post_modified_gmt) VALUES (‘0’, ‘2’, ‘2004-07-25 19:53:50’, ‘2004-07-25 19:53:50’, ‘I upgraded to WordPress 1.2 but are having some problems…as you can see. I\’m working on solving this asap…..be right back…’, ‘I upgraded’, ”, ‘publish’, ‘open’, ‘open’, ”, ‘i-upgraded’, ”, ‘2004-07-25 19:53:50’, ‘2004-07-25 19:53:50’)
    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/whitehat_dk/users/android8/wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php:80) in /usr/home/whitehat_dk/users/android8/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php on line 146
    —————
    I really really need someone to help me with this!!!
    Thx.

    did you run the upgrade script?
    /wp-admin/upgrade.php

    Thread Starter madsen

    (@madsen)

    Phew…I thought I had, but apparently I hadn’t….Thx! Works fine now,- well the layout is all screwed up.
    I put my old layout.css-file back in the new WP-folder together with the old “Images”-folder, but as you can see the layout is messed up.
    Any suggestions on what to do?

    I think the CSS file is not loaded at all. I think the problem is the path in your index.php
    @import url( /wp-layout.css );
    That stated the wp-layout.css file is in the root (may be called “public_html” or “www” or something else) directory on your server. But your wordpress is installed in a directory called “wordpress”, and the wp-layout.css is actually in that directory.
    May be change it to
    @import url( /wordpress/wp-layout.css );
    would help? Or change the directory according to your particular server.

    Thread Starter madsen

    (@madsen)

    Thanks a lot chrisada! Everything looks right now! I changed the index.php @ import ->/wordpress/wp-layout.css
    Thx to all of you for helping 🙂

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