I finally just did a manual install/upgrade of Wordpress on the movie blog and everything is peachy now. I really like to in-house plug-in updater. You just have to supply it with some ftp credentials.
I also wrote a post on bloggingamigos about it.
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So the updater didn’t work and I was having problems figuring out what went wrong. Then Soulman showed up and helped me over his lunch hour. What happened is a couple files were somehow truncated and no new files seem to have been copied. So my blog works now and was never really upgraded. Maybe I’ll do a manual upgrade later today if I have time.
Well, I think either the database got weird, some files got weird, or a combination of both. There seem to be two sets of tables in my database which is really weird. Luckily Soulman a.ka. - The Cavalry - is trying to help me out. I’ll definitely have a “nice” post about this updater on BloggingAmigos when this is all through.
Tara used the automatic upgrade plugin for Wordpress on some blogs and didn’t have any problems. The exact same didn’t happen for me. I tried to do it on this blog and ran into a bunch of problems so I then tried to do it on the movie blog and ran into the exact same problems. So I did some research, read a few things, and then changed some file permissions. Well, it got farther in the “upgrade”, but now nothing works at all. This is what I posted on the Wordpress.org forums. I would greatly appreciate any help.
I tried to use the automatic upgrader to go from 2.3.2 to 2.5 and was having a lot of problems with file permissions. I was reading some comments on the creator’s site and it said to try a recursive chmod to change permissions on some stuff. So I tried that and it was able to get past setting the blog into maintenance mode and what not. Well right before I got to the point where it would upgrade my database I got several pages of errors all similar to this, for what I’m guessing is every file:
Warning: copy(/home/chalupa/public_html/movies/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/chalupa/public_html/movies/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/wpau_upgrade.class.php on line 181
So now if I try to go to my blog or my dashboard I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function require_wp_db() in /home/chalupa/public_html/movies/wp-settings.php on line 206
I’m guessing some of the files were upgraded and some were not? I’m also guessing my database hasn’t been upgraded yet. I did the auto-backup procedure with the plugin and saved those files. I’m not exactly sure what I need to do to replace those. Currently my computer won’t let me even see what’s in them because it has deemed them as “unsafe”. Should I just talk to my webhost and have them roll back to last week’s backup? I would greatly appreciate any help.
I’ve been using this plugin for a short while and just saw this article on Wordpress.com saying it’s been banned. The date is also 8 months old. Now it seems to me like the people having problems were probably doing some fishy things. I’m considering looking for a new plugin to use, but will probably keep using it. In the meantime here are some tips.
- Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools and setup your site(s) there.
- Using the same Google account setup your Adsense stuff.
See? Now Google knows about your site and you shouldn’t have problems with banned content or something. You also shouldn’t be giving out your Adsense account numbers or posting ads on sites that you don’t have complete control over. Pretty simple. Don’t be stupid.
Smitty had an idea a long time ago about creating a shared blog where us techie-people could share our experiences about blogging and it’s many facets. I thought this was a great idea and we’re now in the process of setting things up.
I have a tendency to work on things until they’re functional and then quit. This is why I have many unused plugins installed or in use that don’t do much or are cluttering things up. Setting up this new blog has re-invigorated me to start making some changes to things. If you haven’t seen my movie blog then you might not notice the changes. I imported it from Blogger to Wordpress about a month ago and tonight I changed the theme to K2 and have been changing some of the plugins and modifying a few other things. The long term goal is to update the look of this blog too.
If you’re looking to do some podcasting with Wordpress, I’d highly suggest checking out the PodPress plugin for podcasting. It will insert a player into your posts, keep track of stats, options for iTunes and other podcast directories, setup a separate RSS feed, and many, many other settings you can mess with. I’ve started using it on my movie blog for the audio reviews we’ve started using.
Just found what I’ve been looking for. A plugin to expand/hide my categories. I’m not using it here, it’s on my Movie blog. Here’s the site for where I got it from. One nice feature is that it actually works with Wordpress 2.3.2. Now I just have to categorize a couple hundred posts.
This weekend I’ve been working on migrating my other blogs to Wordpress. I migrated this blog about a year ago, tested some things out, but then wasn’t able to migrate the others. Turned out I was finally forced to update to the Beta Blogger or Blogger 2 and Wordpress didn’t have an importer yet. Well, I’m finally getting around to doing it again. I’m not sure what I’ll do for templates or color schemes - I usually go for something as simple as possible. I might even make a portal-ish page on the root of my domain to take you to the different blogs.
I know I’ve posted this links in previous posts, but if you’re interested in doing this yourself there’s a good tutorial here and some instructions on maintaining permalinks here.
I’m so glad I switched to my own Wordpress installation on my own server. Any Blogger blog I’ve tried to go to today returns a 502. Come on Google. You have customers that are needing to use your free blogging service.
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