Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

I upgraded Simply Sofie Blog and the News section of the Official Website of the Muncipality of Pandan, Antique, Philippines from WordPress 2.0.4 to WordPress 2.0.5. It was an easy upgrade though. I just made a backup of the MySQL database, deactivated the WordPress Plugins, and then deleted the folders and its files except the wp-content folder, and the .htaccess. Afterwards, I uploaded the unzipped WordPress 2.0.5, default is wordpress of course, but in my case, I normally rename it.

With regards to the wp-config file, I deleted that file too, and just uploaded the new one with the same database name, username and password. If you are going to delete that file, make sure you remember the database name, username and password. But I suggest, not to delete it, just like the .htaccess, so you don’t have to upload that file again. There is always a tendency that you might overwrite the file, so always remember to make a backup of your wp-config file before you upload the other files. Make a habit too of making a copy of your wp-content files.

I know WordPress 2.0.5 was released 55 days ago and upgrading from WordPress 2.0.4 to WordPress 2.0.5 would only take a few minutes, but I was not able to do it. Why did I upgrade them now? Well, I installed the Counterize II Plugin version 2.04, that’s why. It seems like it has a problem with WordPress 2.0.4 but I didn’t bother anymore to analyze it. I know that it works with WordPress 2.0.5, so I just upgraded Simply Sofie Blog and Pandan.gov.ph News. The timing was just right.

Few weeks ago, I also installed Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Plugin version 2.6. I’m already using Akismet, but it seems like it’s not enough. I have been getting a lot of spams, hundreds of them, but eversince I installed Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam, I don’t get those spams anymore, unless the spammers really visit my site and fill out the form from the site.

I’m not just installing these plugins in one site but in almost all my sites. Take note, these plugins should be regularly checked as well if they have new versions or not. Another plugin, the WP-PostViews Plugin has a new version, so I uploaded WP-PostViews 1.02 to replace WP-PostViews 1.00.

This is actually what I don’t like about all these software programs and plugins, we always have to upgrade. Well, that’s part of the web designer’s life. Anyway, when there’s something new, we learn too.

Lastly, I updated the site of Swiss Big Game Fishing. I added at least seven pictures at the “Fangerfolge” pages. I also updated the media pages of Green Cross Switzerland. The press releases are both in German and French Languages.

I finally converted www.sehdi.com from simple PHP to WordPress as CMS (Content Management System), specifically using the new released version WordPress 2.0.5. It could have been an easy conversion but I was making sure that everything should be in order including my codes before I publish the new converted site.

It took me five days to finish the whole thing. For one thing, even if no one sees the codes, mySQL database, and folders, except me of course, I make sure that they’re not messy. Another important factor is the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), naturally, I revised the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) too.

I did not install another WordPress for the whole site but integrated it with the existing blog. I just wrote a few codes and everything went fine. It almost looks the same as the original web design.

Another update, I already upgraded www.weggis.net from WordPress 2.0.4 to WordPress 2.0.5.

That’s it! I’m into converting sites from simple PHP to WordPress as CMS at the moment.

For those who are linking my blog from your website or blog using the RSS feed, please update your link from http://www.sehdi.com/blog/feed to http://www.sehdi.com/feed. Although http://www.sehdi.com is not really my blog rather http://www.sehdi.com/blog, but since sehdi.com is now using WordPress as CMS and blog was added as a page, blog updates will only appear if you update your RSS feed. It’s because of the conversion.

Thanks!

Update: No need to do anything about the RSS feed, I managed to make both http://www.sehdi.com/feed and http://www.sehdi.com/blog/feed work.