It was my turn to perform a Wordpress upgrade on the Lucire ‘Insider’ blog today. It was amazing: it worked.
   Normally I can break any computer program, just by following instructions. In fact, I did try an automatic upgrade plug-in for Wordpress which did not work (getting different results on the two trials), so I bit the bullet and did it the hard way—which turned out to be the easy way.
   For once, the documentation was virtually perfect, apart from one thing which I was able to figure out.
   More computer software and application developers should take a lesson from Wordpress on delivering decent programs and plain-English instruction manuals.
   The only part that was slightly wrong on the page linked above was step 13 as it refers to Wordpress 2·5, rather than 2·6 (where there are three secret key lines). But when I investigated it, I easily found the lines I had to put in to config.php.
   Admittedly, it took longer than I thought in deleting and uploading files but at least I didn’t delete the wrong ones. On that, the documentation was very clear, too.
   If an idiot like me can upgrade Wordpress without calling a boffin, then a lot of people should be able to. Posted by Jack Yan, 07:16  permalink

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