Title: Upgrading wordpress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Upgrading wordpress

 *  [colinwiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinwiseman/)
 * (@colinwiseman)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-7/)
 * Trying to upgrade to 3.1.1 but something is going tits!  (doing it separate from
   our live site)
 * All posts don’t work, just pages!  So it’s not the url rewriting.
 * Our current live site works perfectly on 3.0 so doubt it’s version of php or 
   iis
 * I have tried a completely clean instal of WordPress and new database, and everything
   works perfectly fine!!  So I thought I’d import all the posts, and of course 
   there is a file size limit!
 * So could it be a plugin causing a schema issue? I deactivated all plugins but
   no joy.
 * Not sure next course of direction…other than hand copying 8000 posts by hand!
 * Thanks
 * Colin
 * Running on windows server 2008 (which works amazingly well btw, 500k unique visits
   a month!)
    iis7 Fully dedicated server

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-7/#post-2049566)
 * [http://www.rangerpretzel.com/content/view/20/1/](http://www.rangerpretzel.com/content/view/20/1/)
 *  Thread Starter [colinwiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinwiseman/)
 * (@colinwiseman)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-7/#post-2049807)
 * Thanks for the link. That is quite a nice wee tool, although when you ask it 
   to split into 2mb chunks they were coming out at 2.89.
 * The file upload this time, and started to import but all the items in the first
   file failed to import – “Failed to create new user for xxx. Their posts will 
   be attributed to the current user.”
 * ARGH!!!
 *  Thread Starter [colinwiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinwiseman/)
 * (@colinwiseman)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-7/#post-2049809)
 * Ok taking this further, it seems that whatever the WordPress engine is doing,
   it is making the decision that the post is actually a page. I saved and displayed
   the queries and the query that was called was to do with pages.
 * Now doing the same on the live site, the query was correct and found the post!
 * Working my way backwards…
 *  Thread Starter [colinwiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinwiseman/)
 * (@colinwiseman)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-7/#post-2049810)
 * Ok I need to take back the “it’s not the URL Rewriting”.
 * Hitting the url
 * /index.php?year=2011&monthnum=04&name=raw-and-healthy-strawberry-crepes
 * on my development site and the post appears corectly. The permalinks are set 
   to:
 * /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
 * So what I wonder, and hope someone can help me before I spend hours debugging
   this, is where WordPress gets a hold of the URL and starts to parse it…
 *  Thread Starter [colinwiseman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colinwiseman/)
 * (@colinwiseman)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-7/#post-2049821)
 * Dammit! Almost fixed it. I noticed that the match that the code found was in 
   such a place that the new code in 3.1.1 didn’t continue searching, it looks like
   it changed to be the “first find is the right find” and the rules should be in
   the right order…I would agree with that. So I copied the new URL rewriting rules
   straight from a clean database, and bingo my posts started appearing… but bang
   all the category pages disappeared 🙁
 * Will do the same again and see what comes out.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-wordpress-7/#post-2049821)
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