Upgrading to WordPress 2.8
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Before I went away for my holiday in France, I had noticed the release of WordPress 2.8 . Being the kind of geek that likes to keep all his software up-to-date and running the latest version, I knew this was a job for me to tackle as soon as I returned home. Somehow I was able to find time during the seemingly endless laundry and holiday clutter to upgrade my blog.
I know WordPress is very simple to self install on the initial setup and I am also aware that the upgrade, although simple in itself, can throw up some issues if you don’t keep track of what you do. This in mind I made sure I had backups of all my data and read through all the upgrade guides. Within 30 minutes everything was completed and looking rather swish, another upgrade completed without incident.
Well, not quite…
When I tried to log in to my admin panel the following day I was greeted by a “500 Internal Server Error“. Initial I thought my host was just having a tough time and I should be patient, after nearly a day of the same thing I reached out to the World in search of a cure. It quickly became apparent that mine was not a lone case. Thankfully after finding the ‘official’ support thread I was able to track down a rather useful post by Glenn Reffin over at the Redcentaur Blog that helped me both troubleshoot and fix my own blog and regain access to my admin panel.
As with all things computers you should always keep a safe copy of your data and be prepared to do a little research when things do go fully to plan. Stay clam, try not to blame everyone else around you! With WordPress specifically, disable your plugins and themes should you have a problem and activate them one-by-one to determine if any are causing conflicts.
If your lucky everything will go smoothly and you’ll never have to troubleshoot a thing.
