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You seriously need to update.
Here’s the short version:
1. Backup the database
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/backup/
2. Download ALL your files from the blog. Every single one of them.
These two steps are extremely important. Do NOT skip them.
3. Download this and unzip it:
http://static.wordpress.org/archive/wordpress-1.2-mingus.tar.gz
4. On your website, DELETE these:
/b2-include/
/wp-admin/
/wp-links/
and all the other wordpress files at site root, but NOT the b2config.php file
None of the above directories should have any of your web content in them.
Do not be tempted to overwrite at all – I can promise you will get errors.
5. Download b2config.php.
Open it in Notepad
Open the file ‘wp-config.php’ in the WP1.2 download
Transfer the mySQL information over.
save the wp-config.php
Upload everything to your blog (that’s all the new 1.2 stuff)
Delete the file b2config.php from the server
6. Now go to http://www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php
It should run okay.
7. Now DELETE everything you just uploaded EXCEPT wp-config.php
8. Download the latest 1.5.2
http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
9. Unzip, and upload everything to your site again.
10. Run upgrade again – http://www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php
That will get you to the latest.
You automatically have better protection, but you would be very wise to then get hold of these two plugins:
http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
If you are not comfortable doing this, I will do it for you but as it’s 00:41 here now it will have to wait until tomorrow. Backing up your data first though is by far the most important step.
If you have ANY questions about anything, do ask.
