HELP! My Website Is F*cked After Upgrading to WP 2.6!

Hi,

I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 using the Automatic Plugin. Once I did that, it messed up the index of my page and gave an error saying something about the functions.php. I replaced that file with my 2.5 backup and that's when things went terrible. Now it's giving me a 500 server error and nothing is fixing it!

Anyone know how I can cure this?

Please help! Thanks!

 

I hate to tell you but your mixing 2.5 and 2.6 and that probably "killed" it.

A full, re-install might be your only bet.

 

Put all of the original 2.6 back up and post the functions.php error you were getting..

 

there seems to be some issues in upgrading to 2.6. i am also having problems with this
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=942178

 

I feel pretty lucky then. My host, Site5 (see signature link) has this sweet tool called Fantastico that will automatically install and upgrade a number or scripts including Wordpress, PhpBB3, SMF, and more.

So when I upgraded today (automatically) I had no problems. .

But as I said a full restore might be your best bet, but I'll heed a warning, DON'T go back down to 2.3. An exploit was discovered on 2.3 that allows any user (with the exploit) to get into your admin settings.

 

I upgraded my blog to 2.6 manually and never encountered any problems so far. Maybe the Automatic plugin is broken?

BTW, you do have a backup of your site, don't you?

 

Ah, you used the automatic hosted software...yeh..usually not the most stable thing to use..If you can..restore your hosting back to your 2.5, then manually upgrade to 2.6. Wordpress should have sufficient upgrading instructions..

 

Upgrading Wordpress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

 

I didn't even know there was an auto plug-in, glad I didn't use it...manual is the way for me then

 

Thanks. Any idea on how I "re-install"? I've tried overwriting my backup files but nothing happens. I'm trying to figure out how to reinstall.

 

did you copy the whole file for backup or did you just use the wp backup which really only backs up the database?

if you did, you could copy all you files from wp directory to your local, delete them on the server, put the files from backup to the server, import your database through phpmyadmin

if you didn't, install fresh, preferably the same version number, put the themes and all the plugins the way it was, and then import your database

 

a lot of us have multiple blogs setup under different domain names and it becomes kind of hassle to upgrade wordpress manually in all of them. wordpress needs to get a better way of these upgrades.....!

fantastico causes problems especially with various plugins.

apparently i had a backup and going back to 2.5.

 

the auto-plugin is having problems for wp 2.6. before using you should have read it or tested it. I tested it and i got the same error thus i manually upgraded it. Next time do test before trying

 

Ahh man. I'm not sure how to backup a database, and I know one mistake could mess up all my data. Is there anyway to do it and is it complicated?

 

u replaced functions.php with the 2.5 backup? i would suggest doin a fresh install. save ur wp-config.php file and then replace the database information.

U can also hire someone to fix this for u. i have hired people from getafreelancer.com for Joomla and got good results. if u r not too familiar then that mite be the way for u.

 

its not complicated, you can use wp backup plugin or you can use phpmyadmin and use export table function to store your whole database in one single text file

 

Im waiting to see if another update will be released soon so have held off from updating yet.

 

amen to that! why it's so complicated is beyond me!

5 step and 3 step...if you are lucky!

 

Alright, I exported it and it saved as "localhost.sql". Now should I just delete the whole database? and then import my saved one after I reinstall?

I hope that ll of my data is really in this .sql file.

 

That should be ok but this is what I usually do. When you get to your phpmyadmin you go to the database. Then you select the export tab. Just use the default conf, and click the button Go.

You then be taken to a big text box. That is really your whole database. I'd just select all and copy paste it to a text file. Doing that you can be sure that everything is included.

You can then drop the database and and use the SQL tab. Copy paste all again from your text file. Done.

If youre not sure, you can create a dummy database and do the export and import on that dummy