Behind The Blog

On Friday, I made the jump to bring this site up to WordPress 2.6.2, the latest WPMU release. I pretty much just followed the upgrade steps I’d outlined back in June. For those curious, here was the database backup command I used:

mysqldump wordpress --add-drop-table -u username -ppassword | bzip2 -c > wpmudb-backup-20081010.bz2

Obviously I removed the username and password, and yes, there is a space between “-u” and the username and there is not a space between “-p” and the password. I didn’t research whether that was required… I admittedly followed the steps in one of the WPMU Forum posts I found.

With WordPress 2.6.2, I did need to add the following lines to my wp-config.php file:

define( 'LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'text removed' );
define( 'LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'text removed' );
define( 'AUTH_KEY', 'text removed' );
define( 'SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'text removed' );
define( 'SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'text removed' );

Obviously I’m again removing the values specific to our system. These lines were shown to me right at the top of the admin interface after I logged in after the upgrade. I just copied/pasted and then needed to login again.

Thankfully by this point, we’ve made most of our customizations either in the custom theme we use for the site or in specific plugins, so really the only post-upgrade manual tweak I had to do was to modify kses.php to allow “skype” and “sip” protocols in URLs as I had documented earlier. At some point I should probably figure out how to make this a plugin so that it survives upgrades… in the meantime it’s not a big deal provided I remember to do so. (Upgrade checklists are your friend!)

I did the upgrade primarily because I knew I needed to keep the site up-to-date on security issues and fixes, but also because I wanted to try out the WordPress app on the iPhone now that we have made the switch from Blackberries to iPhones. As you can see in this test post, the WordPress app on the iPhone does work. It does, though, seem to have one rather annoying limitation for working with WordPress MU that I mentioned there and will write about in more detail in another post.

Meanwhile, we’re up and running on WPMU 2.6.2…

Technorati Tags: wordpress, wordpress mu, wpmu, voxeo

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