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

[Sebastian Herp]

Ryan Boren wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 07:42 +0000, Podz wrote:
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>>Safe mode killed this stone dead when I tested last night.
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>Yeah, unless your host runs php under your username, safe_mode will kill
>this.  Need to handle safe_mode gracefully.
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>Ryan
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Yesterday I tried to update the wordpress blog of a friend of mine. It 
didn't went as smoothly as it could have ...

1. Wordpress 1.5 comes with an index.php which overwrites the original 
index.php of wordpress 1.2. So there should be a big big warning that 
upgraders should not overwrite their index.php if they want to keep 
their old design.

2. Running php as a module seems to kill it, too. I manually created the 
wp-content/themes directory and made it world-writable. Wordpress then 
created a directory named after the blog, but didn't copy anything into 
it. The folder was owned by the apache-user and the ftp-user had no 
permissions to alter it in any way :-( Even worse ... empty directories 
in wp-content/themes seem to kill the presentation-category in the admin 
interface

Sebastian