Ye'll need:

• Time. Dinnae dae this when yer fair wabbit, or reengin aboot
• FTP client.
• Text editor. Dinnae use oan o those Wurd Processor fur onything here. WordPad (PC) BBEdit (Mac) will dae.
• Dinnae use Dreamweaver or Adobe Golive either.

Oan yer desktop, mak a brand spankin new folder caud "WP files". Doonload aw eh yer stuff intae this, doonload aw eh the followin stuff intae it (Ah ken ye've din it already, dae whit yer tealt!!)

1. index.php
2. wp-comments.php
3. wp-comments-popup.php
4. wp-config.php
5. wp-layout.css
6. If ye yease that Kubrick stuff, coapy thoan kubrick-searchform.php

Mak sure ye also doonload ony o the files that ye might have chinged on yer ain, mibee vars.php if ye've chinged the wee happy faces?

It's ye're backup and it's jist that - ye're backup - aw o the files will be mucked aboot wi an that's why ye're daoin it this way!

Richt, we've goat tae doonload a few more things. Oan yer desktop, mak a new folder caud "My Plugs". Intae this, doonload aw eh yer plugins and aw the other folders and stuff that micht be in there.

Chingin Yer Files #1

The follaein chinges are importaint for ye so that yer current layoot stays the same! Dae all o this usin the stuff ye've doonloaded seperately:

1. Open yer index.php in yer text editor.
   • Comment oot the wp-blog-header require line at the top o index.php. Dae this by putting // at the start o each line.

     <?php
     //* Don't remove this line. */
     //require('./wp-blog-header.php');
     ?>

   • Update that stylesheet import line in index.php. Replace this:
     @import url( <?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-layout.css );
     wi this:
     

     @import url( <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> );

   • IF ye use Kubrick, ye'll have a line like this:
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-layout.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
     Ye've goat tae chinge it tae this (fur Kubrick layouts only remember):
     

     <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

   • Update the wp-comments include line in index.php. Replace this:
     <?php include(ABSPATH . 'wp-comments.php'); ?>
     wi this:
     

     <?php comments_template(); ?>

   • Now save yer index.php
   • Rename wp-comments.php taecomments.php
   • Open wp-comments-popup.php. Find this line at the top : require ('wp-blog-header.php');
     Ye must comment oot that line:

     // require ('wp-blog-header.php');

     The top o yer wp-comments-popup.php must look like this:

     <?php
     /* Don't remove these lines. */
     $blog = 1;
     //require ('wp-blog-header.php');
     add_filter('comment_text', 'popuplinks');
     

     Save the file.
   • Rename wp-comments-popup.php as comments-popup.php
   • Add a theme heeder tae wp-layout.css. Somethin like this (Ye can jist copy and paste this fur noo):
     

     /*
     Theme Name: Ma Original layout
     Theme URI: http://myblog.com/
     Description: Your theme
     Version: 1
     Author: Yersel
     Author URI: http://myblog.com/
     */

   • Now rename wp-layout.css to style.css.
   • Ye should noo huv 5 files:
     1. index.php
     2. comments.php
     3. comments-popup.php
     4. style.css
     5. wp-config.php
     6. If ye use that Kubrick stuff, ye'll huv 6 files.
   • Now mak a folder caud "Carrots" an poot the furst 4 files intae that folder (and kubrick-searchform.php if ye use Kubrick).

1. Login tae yer admin panel and DEACTIVATE every plugin. (Dae it, or else!!!)
2. Dinnae touch yer /wp-images directory.
3. DELETE the /wp-admin directory.
4. DELETE the /wp-includes directory.
5. DELETE the /wp-content directory.

Now delete aw these WP files. All o them. If ye hiv 1.2, 1.2.1 or 1.2.2 then here's a list o whit needs deleting:

• index.php
• print.css
• wp-atom.php
• wp-blog-header.php
• wp-comments-popup.php
• wp-comments-post.php
• wp-comments-reply.php
• wp-comments.php
• wp-commentsrss2.php
• wp-feed.php
• wp-layout.css
• wp-links-opml.php
• wp-locations.php
• wp-login.php
• wp-mail.php
• wp-pass.php
• wp-rdf.php
• wp-register.php
• wp-rss.php
• wp-rss2.php
• wp-settings.php
• wp-trackback.php
• wp.php
• xmlrpc.php

If ye jist overwrite aw the files, ye will get errors. Probably quite a lot o them. DELETE insteed

Using yer browser, visit the upgrade script that ye jist uploaded tae yer site. It'll usually be located somewhere like this:
www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php
or
www.example.com/wurdpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php (where 'wurdpress' is the name o yer blog directory).

Specifically fur this guide, the following folk shuld be thankit:

Ryan Boren - He's writ loads o code in the first place, but he's made a scally guide fi which this guide has bin written.

 

Aw the folk here his helpit by geein up their free time (in response tae a post on ma blog) by testing oot this guide, pointing oot gaps, makkin suggestions an otherwise helping so that yer WurdPress upgrade is made as tickety-boo as possible. In alpha order, they're: |Memo|, AJ, Bryan, ch3wbacca, Charlie, Cyndy, Gary, Shadow, SLH, Terry