I had to write a little plugin to bypass the check – free to download and use. <?php /** * Plugin Name: Upgrade SSL Bypass * Description: The DB-Upgrade process for networks does not work if there’s an error with your SSL certificate. This plugin bypasses the check by disabling the verification in case of … Read more
I’ve edited the code a bit and this works on my localhost. Try it and let me know if it does the job. Be careful to edit your own admin role though. Or put in another condition to prevent updating your admin role in case of a use error. Edit: added ob_start() thanks to Mark … Read more
The virus part is going to be off-topic, but yes a fresh install is the way to go. What I would do to upgrade the site is: Backup everything– PHP and database Install the old site on a development server. Before running the site, replace all of the core files with new 2.8 ones from … Read more
You need to… … have your files and folders owned by your user. If you have sudo privies with your SSH access this should be easy to accomplish. sudo chown -R user ./wordpress_directory … have your files and folders, at least the ones in wp-content, in the same group as the web server. Otherwise you … Read more
I don’t have a definitive answer for you, but I had a quick look at some of the upgrade code and noticed that a very old upgrade function rewrites the post_name using the sanitize_title function, and that calls sanitize_title_with_dashes, and that contains this bit of code: if ( seems_utf8( $title ) ) { if ( … Read more
Considering that i) as @Tony Djukic put, “depends on how complicated the site is and how much of it is worth keeping around” ii) pain is something without an objective way of measuring iii) there will be some pain (and you acknowledge it). I say: just rip the Bandaid and go with option 2. Evaluate … Read more
I was using WordPress Multisite for multiple TLDs. Example: domain.com another-domain.org sample-domain.net The primary site was domain.com which was a valid registered domain name with proper DNS resolution. another-domain.org and sample-domain.net had both expired domain name registrations. A/K/A – The DNS wasn’t resolving properly. If you’ve got a WordPress Multisite setup similarly to mine, where … Read more
A plugin was the cause of this issue, ‘PS Disable Auto Formatting‘. After disabling this plugin, the issue was fixed.
After a full day of investigating the problem I managed to find the culprit and solve the problem. I localized the problem by following these steps: Create a new blog and give your user admin or editor privileges. In MySQL copy all posts from one of the troubled blogs to the new blog. Now the … Read more
4.0 made a change to the structure of the authentication cookie and added a “token” feild to it. I assume that you were logged out because your older style cookie didn’t match the new format.