{"id":1315,"date":"2009-07-31T13:59:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2020-01-03T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T00:12:11","slug":"golf-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/golf-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"golf blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last night, after a negotiating a harrowing technological labyrinth on and off for several days, I managed to upgrade to the latest WordPress version on my golf blog, Golfolicious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t have been hard. I’ve put up a half dozen WordPress sites at this point; for the installation, my preference is Fantastico, an application deployment tool bundled with many hosting services. You pretty much click a button and you’re done. Even better, when it’s time to upgrade, you can use the same tool.<\/p>\n

My Golfolicious WordPress instance, however, wasn’t originally installed using Fantastico — so I hesitated trying to use the tool to upgrade.<\/p>\n

I could have done a manual upgrade, but the instructions published in the WordPress codex were long, complex, and included steps that I would have had to research further to fully understand.<\/p>\n

Finally, I hit on another idea. I own the .net and .org versions of the domain name, as well as the .com. Maybe I could install a current version on the .net, transfer my theme, posts, and comments over, and then point the .com to the .net when I was done?<\/p>\n

Call that plan B. Plan A, executed only when I’d done enough research on Plan B to satisfy myself that it was viable, was to try Fantastico.<\/p>\n

I did. Didn’t work. Broke the site. Took me awhile to backtrack enough to make it somewhat usable again.<\/p>\n

Plan B, OTOH, worked like a charm — particularly since the WordPress Wizards, my heroes, have built in handy import\/export tools that make it extremely simple to transfer posts & comments between blogs\/URLs\/host servers.<\/p>\n

Is there anything they haven’t thought of?<\/p>\n

I heart WordPress!<\/p>\n

And while I’m at it, I also heart Hostgator<\/a>, my hosting service. Their chat tech support staff are awesome. They are patient, they are cheerful, they take the initiative to do a little extra research if needed to make sure an issue is resolved satisfactorily — my experience with them has really been top notch.<\/p>\n

So thanks for all your help as I wrestled through that upgrade, Hostgator!<\/p>\n

Now I need to catch up on golf blog posts. I put one up after I finished the upgrade last night — post about a late June trip to play a couple of courses at the Turning Stone resort. Scroll down to see my photo<\/a> of a wild turkey :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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