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Revision as of 12:44, 8 September 2020
, 12:44, 8 September 2020→Update Wordpress
But I should really do a full backup and everything first, so that isn't going to happen today.
==Update A New Version of Wordpress== ===Overview=== Rather than trying to update wordpress, I think it best to install the latest version and use the old dbase. This will likely cause problems with images... but we made several suboptimal choices when we built the last version, including using a non-standard theme and customizing it in a way that prevented updates. There's a useful wordpress article on the basics of the approach, albeit from a hosted install perspective: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-restore-a-wordpress-site-with-just-database-backup/ The main install instructions are: https://wordpress.org/support/article/how-to-install-wordpress/ For theme customization beyond that done in the interface, or through a plugin (like Code Snippets [https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/], wordpress says the best approach is to create a child theme [https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-wordpress-child-theme-video/]. Choosing the theme (https://wordpress.org/themes/ and https://wordpress.com/themes) is a major decision. This time I want a much more standard theme, that has better plugin and widget support, is responsive and gives a good mobile interface. I also don't want to pay but will have to trade that off against doing customization to make it look distinct. It seems that Twenty Fifteen has the most active installs, but all the Twenty series, which are [https://wordpress.org/themes/author/wordpressdotorg/ default themes] made by wordpress are wildly popular. It might be worth using [https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwenty/ Twenty Twenty], as it is the most recent and takes advantage of the block editor (Twenty Nineteen does too but gets mediocre reviews), and I like the look of [https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfourteen/ Twenty Fourteen]. Outside of the defaults, [https://wordpress.org/themes/oceanwp/ OceanWP] is eCommerce oriented but looks good and is very popular. [https://wordpress.org/themes/neve/ Neve] sits between OceanWP and [https://wordpress.org/themes/generatepress/ GeneratePress], which has a more magazine/news focus, and all three take advantage of the new block editor ([https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Gutenberg]), which was introduced in WPv5 (initial release in 2018).
==Old machines==
