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Hi everyone. It’s been awhile since I’ve created some of my own fresh content on here. Don’t worry there is more coming. I’ve just been quite busy with life lately and trying to upgrade WordPress. I’m also in the process of creating another website using WordPress. I’ll announce that when its complete. Anyways as you can see I’ve successfully upgraded to WordPress to v1.5. It was not easy at first for some reason. I wish I could explain why but I can’t. Only excuse I can come up with is working on it to late at night. The reason I say this is because the next day (yesterday) I did the exact same thing to upgrade WordPress and it worked perfectly with hardly any time investment. Here’s what I did to upgrade WordPress from v1.2 to v1.5. Please note these instructions are for those that don’t care about there WordPress files and alterations you may have done. Mine was simple so use instructions at your own risk and digression.

Steps to Upgrade WordPress v1.2 to 1.5

• Backup all your current WordPress files and database before moving on further!
• Download WordPress v1.5
• Delete all your WordPress files (remember you made a backup).
• Uncompress downloaded archive to where you had your previous version.
• Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php.
• Edit wp-config.php, set your database name, username and password.
• Load your web site into your favorite browser and add /wp-admin/upgrade.php (i.e. www.domainname.com/wp-admin/upgarde.php). Follow on screen instructions.
• At this point your WordPress should be successfully upgraded to v1.5.

The only steps left is to convert your old WordPress template into the new WordPress theme system and bring over any plugins you wish to use. You can follow the instructions on how to convert your WordPress template into the new WordPress theme system under Upgrading Old Templates. The plugins portion you will have to be on your own. Haven’t gotten to that point yet and I’m in no rush :-).

Note: I had to remove the link tag in my template referring to the /print.css. This file appears to no longer exist. You could create your own of course.