{"id":16,"date":"2007-11-21T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/site-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T19:24:15","slug":"site-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/site-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/07\/new-wiki-site-launch-%e2%80%94at-last\/\">went live<\/a> in its present form (with Wiki, Forum and Blog) in January 2007 with Mediawiki 1.8.2, SMF 1.1.1,\u00a0and Blogger, while in February 2007 I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/switch-to-wordpress\/\">switched<\/a> from Blogger to WordPress 2.1. I had made extensive (and in several cases uncommented) modifications to all programs, so all this time I had avoided upgrading the software because I expected I would have a hard time transfering my modifications to the upgrades (it would involve a three-way comparison among the old versions, the modified versions\u00a0and the new versions). Now however I decided to tackle it and thanks to the help of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/winmerge.org\/\" title=\"Opens in New Window\">WinMerge<\/a>, a program that compares directories and files, I was able to do it without much trouble. It took some time (something like two days altogether), but I did not face any insurmountable problems, and now the site runs on the latest version of all software, MediaWiki 1.11.0, SMF 1.1.4 and WordPress 2.3.1. So now I will not be so worried about upgrading any more, and I will be able to do it when new versions become available \ud83d\ude42 .<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong><em>Update January 11, 2008<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I upgraded WordPress to 2.3.2, which was an urgent security release over 2.3.1. It proved rather easy now that I have figured out the right way of going about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site went live in its present form (with Wiki, Forum and Blog) in January 2007 with Mediawiki 1.8.2, SMF 1.1.1,\u00a0and Blogger, while in February 2007 I switched from Blogger to WordPress 2.1. I had made extensive (and in several cases uncommented) modifications to all programs, so all this time I had avoided upgrading the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/site-upgrade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Site Upgrade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visual-physics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}