ibiblio services/changes announcement list

[Cristóbal Palmer <cmpalmer AT metalab.unc.edu>]

WordPress has a new major release, 3.0.

  http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/

If you run a WordPress site at ibiblio, please take the time to
upgrade. We need you to do your upgrade as promptly as possible, and
to help you do that we have a set of instructions for WordPress users
at the following URL:

  http://www.ibiblio.org/wordpress/

I'm copying a portion of that page here for your convenience:

Upgrading WordPress on ibiblio

Note that lines starting with a "$" indicate commands issued from
login.ibiblio.org. The "$" is the command prompt and is not part of
the command you would enter. Similarly, items in ALL CAPS definitely
need to be replaced by values that match your site.

   1. Use an SSH client to connect to login.ibiblio.org.

   2. Back up your database tables. This only takes a minute and can
   really save you some headaches:

       $ mysqldump -h MYSQL.ibiblio.org -u MYSQLUSER 
--password="SOMEPASSWORD" YOURDBNAME > WORDPRESS-YYYYMMDD.sql

      Don't forget to subsitute the values above with yours. For
      instance, your database server might be mysql2.ibiblio.org, and
      YOURDBNAME will be the name of your mysql database, etc. If you
      don't know these values but have a working Wordpress install,
      you can find them in your wp-config.php file. Please NOTE that
      the backup process will briefly lock the database, making your
      site inaccessible. This usually takes less than 30 seconds, but
      if you're worried about it, do it during off-peak hours. To save
      space, please gzip your SQL backup file:

       $ gzip WORDPRESS-YYYYMMDD.sql

   3. Disable all plugins. Wordpress upgrades can cause irreversible
   damage in some cases if you fail to disable your plugins. You did
   make a backup, right?

   4. Change directories to the directory above your WordPress installation:

       $ cd /public/html/YOURSITE

      If your blog is a subdirectory named "wordpress" then you would
      do the following:

       $ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
       $ tar xvfz FILE_JUST_SAVED_BY_WGET
       $ rm FILE_JUST_SAVED_BY_WGET

      WordPress may want to modify its database tables to accomodate
      the new version. Browse to
      http://www.ibiblio.org/YOURSITE/wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow
      the instructions.

   5. If your blog isn't a subdirectory named "wordpress" you'll want
   to do something like:

       $ mkdir ~/tmp
       $ cd ~/tmp
       $ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
       $ tar xvfz FILE_JUST_SAVED_BY_WGET
       $ rm FILE_JUST_SAVED_BY_WGET
       $ rsync -av wordpress/ /public/html/YOURSITE/YOURWORDPRESSDIR/

      Then proceed to the upgrade itself by browsing to
      http://www.ibiblio.org/YOURSITE/YOURWORDPRESSDIR/wp-admin/upgrade.php
      and following the instructions.

   6. Re-enable your plugins, one by one. If you enable a plugin and
   then can't get to your blog, use your SSH/SFTP client to go into
   your wp-content/plugins directory, and remove the plugin that
   caused things to break. You can simply rename the directory for the
   offending plugin and it will be automatically disabled.

That should do it! As always, open a ticket if you have any trouble:

  http://www.ibiblio.org/help/

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal Palmer
ibiblio.org
metalab.unc.edu