New webdesign with old WP

  • ronaldomi

    (@ronaldomi)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    A customer asked me to make the creation of a new website design using HTML5 since she wish to use galleries and site effects. Well, after almost one month we got final approval of the design. Hence so she asked us to install our design in her WP 3.0.1.

    We asked her if we could install a newer version since we had already created the site with the version 3.5.1. so we would just need to publish the site. But she said she has learned to use the current version (3.0.1) and does not want us to change anything. Thus we all adjust from the old version to the new theme that was created.

    After nearly two days we finished all adjustments and installed several plugins that she had and now when we published the website in the test server of our company is showing the message:

    PHP Warning: MySQL server has gone away on sitepor500.com.br
    Service unavailable
    Warning: MySQL server has gone away query: INSERT INTO (here came a lot of queryes)

    The test server is working perfectly and I can even open the db in phpmyadmin without problems. The database is surely working. Surely this is a problem of the old version but I searched for many forums and do not find a solution.

    Grateful for any help.

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    You would be doing you customer a disservice to provide a site on such an old version and this would leave her with a potentially vulnerable installation.

    WordPress 3.01 was released over three years ago and there have been several mandatory security updates since that version was released.

    It has probably not occurred to her that this might be a problem, and in cases like this, once the potential for security issues is explained, most people would accept that the benefit of using the latest version and that keeping it up to date outweighs any perceived benefit of familiarity with the old UI.

    Apologies that this does not address the question you asked, but I cannot with good conscience encourage using such an outdated version of WordPress.

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