[wp-hackers] Themes: Moving from 1.2.x to 1.5

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Tue Feb 1 08:52:04 GMT 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 07:42 +0000, Podz wrote:
> Ryan Boren wrote:
> > Upgrading templates from 1.2.x to 1.5 is automatically done during
> > upgrade if wp-content/themes is writable.  A theme named after the
> > weblog title is automatically created from the existing template files
> > and made the active theme.  We should mention somewhere that wp-
> > content/themes should be made writable before install/upgrade.  Perhaps
> > the install/upgrade itself should check for this and warn.
> 
> Safe mode killed this stone dead when I tested last night.

Yeah, unless your host runs php under your username, safe_mode will kill
this.  Need to handle safe_mode gracefully.

Ryan




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