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Almost Successful WP Upgrade!

Published by Vijay July 19th, 2008 in Random Noise

After hesitating for months out of fear that I would screw up somehow and lose my entire blog, I finally took the plunge and upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.

It was a giant leap from version 2.0.2 to 2.6 and thankfully the upgrade process was smooth. It took a very long time for me to backup my database. My blog files were only 60 MB, but my WP database was 156 MB. Don’t ask me how. I have no idea how it got so big. I did purge all spam from Akismet. I suspect that the Firestats Plugin was hoarding a lot of data. Anyway, that is something that I will have to worry about when I next backup my database.

I must say I love the Dashboard in the new WP. Lots of new options to explore. Quite a few of the Plugins that I used are not compatible with the new version. Not surprising, as the version was released only this week.

I found a major glitch just now. All my categories have disappeared. Eaten by the WP Gremlins, perhaps?!

There is a list of categories which shows blank spaces or empty quotes - “” - in place of the category names. The list shows the number of posts in each of those blank categories though. That reassures me. Whatever is wrong ought to be correctable. I have explore the support forums to see if there are any solutions. Any ideas for recovering the category names are welcome. Please leave a comment if you know how to get them back.

7 Responses to “Almost Successful WP Upgrade!”  

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  1. 1 Lekhni UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 Jul 19th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    That’s awful! I can’t give you any advice; my upgrade has been fine , no disappearing categories (well, so far at least). But I will try to research and see if anyone has a solution..

  2. 2 Lekhni UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 Jul 19th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    Hey Vijay, looks like you are not alone. There are more people in this forum with the same issue, and this guy has a fix. See if it works for you.

  3. 3 Lekhni UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 Jul 19th, 2008 at 8:36 am

    And then there is this guy’s fix.

  4. 4 Vijay INDIA Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Jul 19th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    Thanks so much taking the trouble to research this Lekhni. Much appreciated. Will buy you the best dinner that Salem can provide if you ever visit here :)

    The last guy’s fix most probably will work for me (fingers crossed). I’ll attempt it later today or tomorrow.

  5. 5 David Cumps BELGIUM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 Jul 19th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    If it works, can I have dinner too? ;)
    Just kidding, good luck :)

  6. 6 Mary UNITED STATES Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0 Jul 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Wow! Good job being brave enough to upgrade! Let’s hope you can fix the glitches! It’s not fun dealing with things like that. But if anyone can fix it, it’s you!

  7. 7 Omry ISRAEL Debian GNU/Linux Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Jul 20th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    Hi,
    You can see the total FireStats tables size in the FireStats settings tab.

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