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Testing New WordPress Versions Part 4: Upgrade!
22.Sep.07 | 1 Comment
This is Part 4 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install . Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. The third step was the copying of the current WP [...]
Short Detour with the Testing New WordPress Series - Database Issue
19.Sep.07 | 4 Comments
After finishing yesterday’s article, I noticed I had a problem with the newly copied local blog: Funny characters showing up in my posts!
In IE7, they’re little empty squares:
In Firefox they’re black diamonds with question marks:
I checked the live MySql version against the one that came with XAMPP. While not identical, they’re close. Local is 5.0.45 [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 3: The Files
18.Sep.07 | 6 Comments
This is Part 3 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install . Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. This step will tackle copying the actual blog files and [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 2: Data
17.Sep.07 | 5 Comments
This is Part 2 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install . This step will tackle copying the database from our live site to our local test site. Subsequent articles will discuss [...]
Testing New WordPress Versions Part 1: XAMPP
16.Sep.07 | 28 Comments
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. This first step gets us rolling with the Apache / MySql / PHP stack. Subsequent articles will discuss database copying, code copying and, finally, testing the actual upgrade and features.
This series [...]
