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

[Leeman Strout]

Sebastian Herp wrote:
> Ryan Boren wrote:
> 
> 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

I just did this a few days ago.  There's a readme in the package that 
tells you everything you need to know about it overwriting index.php, 
and points to a how-to on upgrading.  The how-to tells you how to 
migrate your own theme over to 1.5.

For me it went flawlessly.  Also, I'm running PHP5 as a module on Apache 
2, and it's working fine as well.


Leeman