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

[Ryan Boren]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 16:45 +0100, Sebastian Herp 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.

That has always been the case and is one of the reasons we are putting
templates in a site theme now.

> 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

That's safe mode mucking with things.  We need to remove the theme
directory if we can't populate it.

Older nightlies could accidentally create the theme directory with 775
permissions.  That's now fixed so that it is 777 instead.

Ryan