squamloon

Thanks for the reply—I feared as much.

BTW your VoodooPress blog was incredibly helpful for me a few months ago when I took the plunge and upgraded from a very old version. Thanks so much for that too.

Well 18 hours later I emerge battered and bruised but victorious.

Thank you, govpatel, for the zen-like single sentence that got me where I needed to go.

For the sake of others who may need to learn from my journey, here are the key solutions I found in other posts in the Codex along the way.

1. When I tried to put my old site back to start over, the web page worked, but my Admin password didn’t, and I couldn’t remember which email address I’d originally used for my Admin account. I was able to go in and find it through PHPAdmin, then send myself an email to reset the password.

2. The increments that worked for me to upgrade from version 2.3 were: 2.3 to 2.5, 2.5 to 2.8.5, and then the automatic upgrade (JOY!) to the latest version.

3. Two of the three times I upgraded, it didn’t “take” until I deleted the old cookie from my website from my browser.

4. I had to stay with the MySQL4 database until version 2.8.5, and at that point it was obligatory to point to the MySQL5 one.

5. While the localhost line in wp-config.php states that 99% of the time it doesn’t have to be changed, I guess I was in the 1% who had to change it. My hosting service had the setting, though, and it was: localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock

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So I’m a 21st century WordPresser now —— sort of. http://www.squamloon.com

I don’t expect any answers, but if anyone has any advice on what I should do next, I’d gladly welcome it. I want to keep the look and feel of the theme that I painstakingly created back in 2006, but I want to be able to take advantage of all of the new bells and whistles. And as you can see above, I’m definitely an amateur.

Questions (on the off chance that someone wants to answer):
1. I fixed the permalink structure, but there’s stillgobbledygook at the end of the page address when someone clicks on the “add a comment” thing. Where do I change that?

2. Should I just go into the new Theme folders and grab code to replace piecemeal into my old Theme? Or is the whole file structure and language syntax so different from 5 years ago that that’s impossible?

Again—no answers expected. I’ll ask those ones on their own in the forums if no one responds.

Thanks again govpatel!

—James