Habitually Good

Phew… after about 4 hours of grueling work, I have finally managed to upgrade my WordPress installation to the latest version: 2.3.

Note: I first followed all these steps on a local copy of my blog and tested it out. I created the local copy from the backup taken in Step 3 below. Once everything was working, it was only then that I replicated the steps on my hosting site.

Major steps followed:

1. Find a 2.3 compliant theme for the site.
2. Customize the theme to put in all the little changes that I had so painstakingly put into the last theme.
3. Backup current WordPress Installation: Database, Install Directory, All Uploads.
4. Upgrade WordPress according to upgrade instructions found at Wordpress.org.
5. Run the import wizard to convert my Ultimate Tag Warrior tags into WordPress Tags.
6. Upload the new customized theme and activate it.
7. Figure out a way to insert tags into posts while writing posts using Windows Live Writer.
8. Write a test post (which is this one).

There have been some hiccups in the upgrade. I get an error for every post that I try to edit and Save.

Update: I was getting a “WordPress database error: [Table 'wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]” error above. It turned out that the error was being caused by an incompatible plugin that I use to generate sitemaps. I went over to the publisher’s site to get the latest version, and everything is now peachy.

The other major hiccup is that I have to edit each and every post to remove the inline tags that I used to put in when I was using UTW tags plug-in.

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