Updating the blogJOG Wordpress engine to v2.5

We have spent a considerable amount of time today in upgrading our WordPress v2.3 platform to the latest stable release: v2.5. This was not an insignificant task.

In this process, we accomplished backing up the mySQL database (containing the user contributed info. such as posts and comments) on the host server (downloading a copy of it to our remote PC) for the first time; using the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) utility to download our blog design file infrastructure for backup purposes to the remote; downloaded the full upgrade file infrastructure from the WordPress site to the remote; carefully copying and deleting the appropriate files between the old and new versions, and finally uploading via FTP support all the upgraded files to the host server.

Then, via web browser, executing an upgrade command that magically updated the mySQL database and launched the blog using the new upgrade files; thus, we are here and we have had a few issues.

We have noticed that some customizations have been lost (a couple of color changes and links are missing) and we had some error messages when uploading images. A review of the help forum at WordPress found a reference to some extra commas in a couple of files that should be deleted; once these commas were deleted, the code now appears to work.