Hi,

I'm in the process up upgrading to 3.5.3/3.6.4 (see http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=13408). I have my strategy pretty well laid out except for one question:

I have a couple of custom pages (contact-ftr.php and tagcloud.php) built on Atahaualpa 3.3.3's index.php. Will these "port" over without re-writes or do I need to recreate these pages using Atahualpa's new index.php. I'm guessing I have to redo these but if not ...

Thanks,
DP Harshman

Originally Posted by fromtheranks

Hi,

I'm in the process up upgrading to 3.5.3/3.6.4 (see http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=13408). I have my strategy pretty well laid out except for one question:

I have a couple of custom pages (contact-ftr.php and tagcloud.php) built on Atahaualpa 3.3.3's index.php. Will these "port" over without re-writes or do I need to recreate these pages using Atahualpa's new index.php. I'm guessing I have to redo these but if not ...

Thanks,
DP Harshman

Hard to say without seeying your templates.
But you probably need to change a few lines in those templates to make them 3.6.x compatible.

I would compare the index.php of both version, and do a compare.
(for example use notepad++ or winmerge to compare)

Then you will see which things have changed and you can make the corresponding changes in your templates.

some examples:

PHP Code:

include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/functions/bfa_get_options.php');
global $bfa_ata;
get_header(); 


changed to:

PHP Code:

list($bfa_ata, $cols, $left_col, $left_col2, $right_col, $right_col2, $bfa_ata['h_blogtitle'], $bfa_ata['h_posttitle']) = bfa_get_options();
get_header();
extract($bfa_ata); 


PHP Code:

bfa_center_content($bfa_ata['content_inside_loop']); 


changed to:

PHP Code:

include 'bfa://content_inside_loop'; 


STB,

Thanks. I think that answers my questions. Wasn't sure how "backward compatible" the versions were. Probably the easiest is going to be to just rebuild the pages from the latest index.php. For instance for my tagcloud.php based page, which is very straightforward, I'm assuming I'll just have to re-add, to a cloned copy of index.php:

At the top:

PHP Code:

<!-- included 6/11/09 by DPH to create new template name -->
<?php
/*
Template Name: Tag Cloud
*/
?>

Outside the loop:

PHP Code:

    <?php // END of the LOOP
    endwhile; ?>
    
    <!-- modified by DPH 6/11/09 to add wp_tag_cloud template tag; doesn't need to be "in the loop" -->
    <!-- modified by DPH 11/03/09 to disable max display of 45 tags, 0 = unlimited -->
    <!-- note:  wp_tag_cloud called from ..\wp-includes\category-template.php -->
    <!-- <?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?> -->
    <?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=10&largest=20&number=0&format=list'); ?>

DP Harshman

Yes, going with the example you give above, I agree with you fromtheranks.

Easiest to rebuild the templates* from the latest index.php, and re-add your own code.


*(to be exact, they are templates , not pages)

STB,

You are correct, templates not pages.

Thanks for being a sounding board on this.

DP Harshman

Anytime. You're most welcome DP Harshman

Happy to share the info.