Title: Upgrade Issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Upgrade Issues

 *  [kbossons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kbossons/)
 * (@kbossons)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-issues-10/)
 * I have a repeatable issue involving upgrading my wordpress install. I have an
   old installation (2.8.5) and when I upgrade it to the current (3.1.3) the upgrade
   completes without a problem.
 * After the upgrade, when I create a new page, that new page becomes the home page
   of my website. It overrides my reading settings where i have set a different 
   page as home. If I delete that new page the home page becomes a 404. Very puzzled
   by this.
 * I disabled all my plugins before the upgrade and did not re-enable throught the
   issue, so I don’t think this is a plugin issue.
 * The theme I’m using is custom, and the home page is handled by a page with a 
   custom template, and that page being selected in my readings settings for the
   front page option.
 * As for my server environment I have a dedicated managed LAMP server hosted with
   LiquidWeb. I can post exact phpinfo if neccessary.
 * This is not the first site I had this issue with, I had the exact same thing 
   happen with another site a few months ago. I ended up rolling both sites back
   to the prior backups.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-issues-10/#post-2101721)
 * For starters, you need to carry out a series of smaller upgrades: 2.8.5 -> 2.9-
   > 3.0.4 -> 3.1.3

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-issues-10/#post-2101721)
 * Status: not resolved

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