WordPress update

  • ABosCT

    (@abosct)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi

    Im wondering if you guys might have any advice for me. A few weeks ago we had a website transferred to our hosting provider. The website wasn’t maintained and is still running on wordpress 3.0.1 I think. I want to update wordpress obviously and then swop the theme that is currently being used on the site with another one.

    The only problem Im having is: I need to activate a maintenance mode page / coming soon page so that no one can see the site while Im running updates and changing the theme etc. However, when I install my preferred coming soon plugin, there is no option for me to save or include a message. We use this plugin all the time on other sites and have never had an issue.

    a) Could the plugin not be working properly because the version of wordpress is so old?
    b) is it risky to do such a big jump from version 3 to version 4? Would it ruin anything on my site?

    Our hosting provider only does a backup tomorrow at 2am so if something does go wrong then I cant really roll the site back 24 hours.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    I need to activate a maintenance mode page / coming soon page so that no one can see the site while Im running updates and changing the theme etc.

    Make your own html page with whatever name and then edit your htaccess to call it in place of the index.php normally used by WordPress:

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
### Extra Options
## choose for default.html
#RewriteRule . /default.html [L]
## choose for index.html
#RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
## choose for WordPress index.php
RewriteRule . /maintenance.html [L]
## choose for WordPress index.php
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    However, that will not redirect *all* traffic to there unless you add to the above for doing so.

    a) Could the plugin not be working properly because the version of wordpress is so old?

    That *could* be the case, but I have never had any plugin like that work for me.

    b) is it risky to do such a big jump from version 3 to version 4? Would it ruin anything on my site?

    The big question there is about database updates being made as part of certain WordPress updates, and you would definitely want a complete database backup before proceeding. However, all of your content (uploads and such) in your /wp-content/ folder should not be affected.

    Edit: I just now happened to see this:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/should-i-upgrade-35-to-401?replies=3#post-6341494

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