I don’t know of a great before and after comparitor that would get you the results you need. In fact I would be worried that any tool like that won’t catch any failures in functionality. Honestly I would suggest incrementally building up a testing suite that goes through some of your standard processes and verifies … Read more
You should probably upgrade one step at a time from one version to the next. All the code of all the versions are listed at the http://wordpress.org site. It will be a long process but the best to ensure proper upgrades. You can try to make it faster by skipping several versions at each step, … Read more
Most of the time any changes that need to be done on upgrade are database related. Core files can be freely swapped pretty much. WP keeps track of this by comparing db_version option (stored in database) against the current value (from core files) on admin load. If there is mismatch it runs the upgrade routine … Read more
Well after a lot of digging, I think I uncovered what happened. The clue came from the fact that I noticed it was wp_options and all alphabetically subsequent tables that lost their primary keys. On import, first the tables are created. Next it goes through all those tables in alphabetical order and applies the primary … Read more
Delete everything but wp-content and wp-config.php, copy the fresh installation into the directory. On upgrading WordPress will use the database to see what should be done, not the files. Not all files are deleted automatically, because some of them might still be used by outdated plugins or external scripts (the old feed files are good … Read more
I had the same problem, this link explains how to change your filesize upload limit https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-change-your-php-settings-on-ubuntu-14-04 Basically find your php.ini file, and change these two below to 30M post_max_size = 8M upload_max_filesize = 2M
I also used SVN before to update my wordpress installation. Up the working copied will get messed up very quickly with all the manual updates or files created by plugins. I would always recommend to use the update functionality of wordpress if you only want to step from one tagged version to another one. Although, … Read more
It fails because there is already a theme with that name on the server. So the obvious solution is to remove the theme before you upload the new version. If you’re wanting to use an update mechanism like the theme repo, but on a custom theme, there are udpater classes you can add, such as … Read more
The featured image itself– the actual .jpg, or .png, most likely– is saved to wp-content/uploads with primary image data saved to $wpdb->posts as an attachment post type. Additional relevant data for the image is saved in $wpdb->postmeta. What makes an image “featured” or not is an entry in $wpdb->postmeta under the key _thumbnail_id and a … Read more
I had to also change the owner of the root web directory. chown apache:apache . # or chown apache:apache /var/www/html Edit by Otto: Chloe, as you asked for more information than I could reasonably put into a comment, I’m appending this on to your answer. I hope that is okay. If not, feel free to … Read more