Jay Toups

Update: 1:00 p.m. : Hallelujah glory be! It worked! Backups really work. Yay!

This morning, I’m downgrading a WordPress install from 2.8 back to 2.7.1 because the automatic upgrade failed. This week I’ve successfully upgraded 8 sites this way, but one client site decided to barf (no pages, nada!) this morning. So here I sit, patiently uploading the several hundred old version files and being careful not to overwrite any file that has a custom configuration, like wp-config.

Apparently, WordPress released 2.8 knowing that a good number of themes and plugins were not yet compatible.  They did try to warn me to have my backups ready, which I do. But bolstered by my previous uneventful upgrades, I didn’t take time to check in advance for compatibility of the theme I’m using, or of the plugins.  Something doesn’t like the 2.8 upgrade.

I just hit the upgrade button, like a craps shooter on a roll. Aaaaaaaargh.

I’m hoping the down rev goes smoothly.

Funny how, just when you think a particular client doesn’t really do much with their web site, it goes offline and almost instantly the phone rings and it’s the client: “What happened to the site?”