Comments on: A Hail Mary Upgrade

By: Koko B. Warez

Koko B. Warez — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:52:22 +0000

I agree, Earl – aside from the fact that I have given up ever trying to have a Twitter integration on a WordPress site, as they just silently break and no matter how many times I fix it, it breaks – when WordPress put their new editor in and just opted everyone in to it, it really killed a lot of my desire to update my own site. We fight with computers every day and I wish that some of the people supporting this stuff which is supposed to be fun (WordPress, hosting companies, the phpBB team) would get that their breaking changes just create enormous rot for the rest of us.

By: Earl Green

Earl Green — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:44:47 +0000

Went through something similar with my own forums, and nearly had a revolt on my hands when I announced to the folks in the forum that I was giving up hope of recovering the first 4 or 5 years’ posts. I pulled a backup of the database and kept it around just in case a solution occurred to me. Later, when I switched from phpBB to bbPress (the forum addon for WordPress), I remembered that backup and tried to see if I could import both the current forum and that old version of the forum into the same new database, and voila, it worked…kind of. Let’s say it was a 97% success. The one big weird side effect was that there were apparently now two Earls who had posted stuff. But I think everyone overlooked that.

Now, between the https/SSL upgrade that nearly ate my entire site this week, and the weirdness I discovered at the website at work today… I’m starting to think I haven’t been keeping up on this stuff like I should. The whole point of going with WordPress 10+ years ago was so I could Just Concentrate On Writing The Content. But it hasn’t really worked out like that.

By: Dan Sichel

Dan Sichel — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:47:36 +0000

You probably should have upgraded that years ago. The fact that you didn’t and of course got away with it just proves the old saying, lazy is efficient. Think of all those hours you didn’t spend upgrading incrementally on the PHP stuff. Is a cyber security guy I had to chuckle about the old version of PHP writing and what that probably implied, but again, if you add it all up you probably spent a lot less hours upgrading it in one shot than you would have keeping it up to date over the years. Not sure what that means but it seems odd.