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Upgrading from WP 2.9.2 and Atahualpa 3.4.6


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Old Jan 6, 2013, 06:43 AM
philrey212
 
5 posts · Jan 2013
Upgrading from WP 2.9.2 and Atahualpa 3.4.6

Hello,
After spending too many hours trying to upgrade both theme and WP, I turn myself to you for some help.
I'd like to update WP from 2.9.2 to 3.4 or 3.5.
At the same time, I'd like to upgrade the Atahualpa theme from 3.4.6 to a more recent version.
I downloaded everything locally to do some testing so I can't show you anything.
Here is what I tried:
1) Keep current WP version and manually upgrade to Atahualpa 3.7.1
--> When I click the Activate link in the wp back end, I get a server error:
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://localhost:8888/vindjeuprd3/wp...activated=true. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.

2) Keep current WP version and manually upgrade to Atahualpa 3.5.1
I figured that may be the step was to big so I manually updated to Atahualpa v3.5.1. Here, all looks fine in the back-end bat when reloading the page, all is blank (except the background color)
I still have control on the back end so I switch back to 3.4.6 and all is back to normal.

Could you advice on how to proceed? Should I try an earlier version?
I di-activated all plugins, in case of.
Should I upgrade WP first and then Atahualpa?
For info, here are the plugins I use:
Simple Tags 1.7.4.4
Shortcode Exec PHP 1.1
More Fields 1.5.1
Alphabetical list 1.0.3
Wordpress PostViews 1.62
StatTraq 1.3.0

I hope you can help.
Thanks in advanced.
Phil
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Old Jan 6, 2013, 11:39 AM
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23,765 posts · Mar 2009
OSX 10.11.5 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome
1) Do a database backup
2) disable ALL plugins
3) swap to twenty-ten
4) upgrade WordPress
5) check that your posts are there
6) do a database backup
7) upgrade Atahaualpa
8) activate Atahualpa
9) re-enable your plugins.
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Old Jan 7, 2013, 08:19 AM
philrey212
 
5 posts · Jan 2013
Thanks for your feedback.
There is no Twenty Ten Theme with WP 2.9.2.
I tried installing the Twenty Ten theme from WP 3.1.1 but I get the same as for the Atahualpa 3.5.1
I'll try with the default one then.
One question though: would Atahualpa 3.4.6 will work with WP 3.1.1?
If yes, I can try to keep the current version and upgrade WP.
I'll try that too and I'll keep you posted of all the results.
I do have some concerns about the Simple Tags plugin though.
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Old Jan 8, 2013, 04:47 AM
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23,765 posts · Mar 2009
OSX 10.11.5 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome
Actually you should be able to upgrade both WP and Atahualpa. I was suggesting you swap to the default theme (I forgot it is the 'classic' or 'default' back then) to do it one step at a time.

the issues you may run into are
1) if you modified any of the themes actual code - you will have to re do that
2) if you are using any of the themes new widget areas - they are not allowed in some of the options any more (wordpress requirement) and may have to be moved into the index.php.
3) you may need to re-apply your widgets to the widget areas
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Old Jan 9, 2013, 03:09 AM
philrey212
 
5 posts · Jan 2013
I currently was able to keep Atahualpa v3.4.6 and upgrade WP to v3.1.1 RC1.
I also upgraded some plugins such as Simple Tags as Shortcode Exec PHP.
So that's already a step forward.
I don't remember if I had to modify any files from the theme. I don't think so but I'll check.
I know that I added some code in the Atahualpa byline post config to display the extra info in the posts. (related to More Fields and Simple Tags plugins).

What do you mean by: 2) if you are using any of the themes new widget areas - they are not allowed in some of the options any more (wordpress requirement) and may have to be moved into the index.php?
What is a new widget area?
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Old Jan 9, 2013, 03:33 AM
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23,765 posts · Mar 2009
OSX 10.11.5 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome
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What do you mean by: 2) if you are using any of the themes new widget areas - they are not allowed in some of the options any more (wordpress requirement) and may have to be moved into the index.php?
What is a new widget area?
if you don't know what it is you probably didn't use it. See 'ATO->Add new WIDGET AREAS' - if in the 'Delete custom Widget Areas' option nothing is showing, then you don't have any.
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