I always feel I’m taking my life in my hands when I upgrade this blog. There always seems to be something that goes wrong! As a result, I’ve put off upgrading to the latest WordPress release of 3.0.2 until today, I was on 2.7.something so it’s a major upgrade.<\/p>\n
This time the main event was receiving this error message during the upgrade process:<\/p>\n
Warning: copy(\/home\/colinmc\/public_html\/blog\/wp-cron.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in \/home\/colinmc\/public_html\/blog\/wp-admin\/includes\/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 205<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ok, I can cope with that, especially as the cron job system hasn’t appeared to work for a while. I say that because my scheduled backups stopped arriving by email some time ago, so it’s been broken for a bit. Slightly oddly though, as soon as the upgrade had finished, 2 backups arrived by email! So perhaps it’s fixed, magically, even though I go the error above. At least it was neither the dreaded WordPress Blank Screen<\/a> nor a WordPress Internal Server Error<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The second issue was that I also upgraded the MapPress plugin<\/a> that I use to power the map in my UK list of CrossFit gyms<\/a> which promptly broke! Instead of the map showing up, I just got a placeholder for it. Fortunately this has happened before and I remembered the fix: Edit the post and re-save it (or Update it in WordPress speak) and hey presto, it comes back. Weird but true.<\/p>\n
So hopefully, that’s that for another few months, when I shall once again have to take my life in my hands and risk all to the great WordPress god in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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