Upgrading WordPress 1.5 to 2.0

[AngryHamster]

Just wondering here if anyone using a WordPress install on an active and current blog, and built that install using one of the Fantastico scripts, has gone ahead and upgraded their install to 2.0?

If so how did you do it, wipe clean the old DB, run the script and then import the old DB? Manual Upgrade?

How difficult did you find it to accomplish? Hiccups? Lost data? Just wondering because I am considering doing it myself.

- AH

[jdh]

Fantastico offers an "upgrade" option, and in my case it took about 30 seconds to do, with no issues whatsoever. The few basic plug-ins I was running (such as Counterize) were even maintained in the upgrade.

My original WordPress install on BH was done with Fantastico, but I moved the database records from my own private server where I was previously hosting it, with few issues. Ran that way for about three months and then just stumbled across the upgrade option in Fantastico and pressed the "do-it" button and that was about it.

My blog's not much at all, but you can check it out at http://blog.technocrat.ca if you're curious.

[AngryHamster]

Great, I will check that out JDH! I never noticed an upgrade option.

I like when things are as painless as possible.
I will give your blog a look.

- AH
StationA.net (http://stationa.net)

[JimT2]

WordPress is now at 2.0.1! Actually it has been for awhile but Fantastico isn't showing it for some reason. No big changes from 2.0, but it now allows you to choose where your image uploads are stored.

More info at Wordpress.org (http://wordpress.org). It's easy to update manually, just follow the instructions on WP site and for God's sake backup your files...especially the config.php file...almost got me once!

[sean]

while upgrading manually is not difficult, i do wonder if you ruin the ability to let fantastico do it from that point on?

like others, i upgraded from 1.5 to 2 with no issues.

[JimT2]

while upgrading manually is not difficult, i do wonder if you ruin the ability to let fantastico do it from that point on?

like others, i upgraded from 1.5 to 2 with no issues.

There is a "fantversion.php" file in the WP directory if you install through fantastico, I think if you leave that included you can still update that way in the future. When I updated manually to 2.0.1, I edited that file to say 2.0.1 instead of 2.0.

I've updated both ways but I can't remember if I've ever tried the auto after the manual.