upgrade v. 2.8.5 to latest version of wordpress

Visit http://your-domain.com/wp-admin/update-core.php and look for the heading “An updated version of WordPress is available.” Below that there should a button for “Update Now”. You can update by hitting that button. If it’s not there then you will have to manually update your website. For that instructions are here. https://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update

Post Query not working after updating to 4.1

I formed this query based on this answer. I would appear this is no longer the way to do it… I reformatted the query to look like this: query_posts( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘events’, ‘showposts’ => -1, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( ‘key’ => ‘_ecmb_datetime’, ‘value’ => strtotime(‘today … Read more

how can i take out the version in my main.css file? [duplicate]

You can remove query strings from scripts and style sheets with a function in the theme’s functions.php file. // Remove Query Strings from enqueue scripts add_filter( ‘style_loader_src’, ‘remove_query_string’ ); // CSS files add_filter( ‘script_loader_src’, ‘remove_query_string’ ); // javascripts function remove_query_string( $url ) { return remove_query_arg( ‘ver’, $url ); } Be sure you have made a … Read more

How do I find out from my database what version of WordPress I need?

Actually, you have a db_version in a “_options” table, also there are information about installed plugins and themes. With information about dates when website was disrupted you can get back to approximate versions of plugins. With these assumptions you can recover the most appropriate version of WP where that version of a plugin works correctly … Read more