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I’ve decided to take a leaf out of Matt Levenhagen’s book, and produce a follow-along - as I go through the steps I typically carry out when upgrading a site.
I first saw Matt use this technique when he was first developing his AdWords Campaign Blasts method when he was still part of Web Profit School. The WPS members really enjoyed the approach as it illustrated the steps he carried out to quickly test Adwords Campaigns. BTW - if you’re interested in developing your Adwords skills as well as get general all-round internet marketing insights, you really need to check out Matt’s membership site, XtremeProfits - a site packed with great internet marketing street-smarts, and a friendly, active forum that provides excellent Adwords campaigns coaching.
OK - back to the WordPress 2.5 follow-along.
This will cover some of the code upgrade issues that I need to tackle as the producer of the Rapid Niche Websites System - but this could be useful for WordPress users - as it will give them some clues regarding what to look for if they use a number of plugins to customise their WordPress installation.
RNW Feature : Note the use of the Category Introduction - one of RapidNicheWebsites features. This allows you to add any post as an introduction to a category. Along with the visual benefit of providing a more interesting category page (you could for instance include an image in the intro …), you now also have the ability to allocate SEO-related custom fields - further improving the SEO ranking of the category page.
Next was Google XML Sitemaps - Version 3.0.3.1.
Once again, there didn’t appear to be any issues with this plugin and WordPress 2.5.
One problem I did experience with this version of the plugin was getting the plugin to write the sitemap.xml file. I uploaded an empty sitemap.xml file, and tried setting the permssions with FileZilla. [...]
I uploaded the latest version of Global Translator - Version 0.8.
From what I can see, there are no issues with running this plugin on WordPress 2.5.
I had an out-of-date version of this plugin - dutifully informed by the plugin each time I went to the plugins page on this site. I downloaded the latest version - which the home page states is Version 2.5 compatible.
I uploaded the plugin to my test site, and everything seemed to [...]
I saw this when testing a fairly complex page (the RapidNicheWebsites.com home page) - which has a number of DIV tags and class / css settings.
The good news is that the Visual editor does NOT screw up your DIV tags by replacing them with P tags. However, it does remove any tags [...]
This is an excellent plugin - once again by Andy Staines .
I thought this would be a ‘quickie’ to test - but no such luck. Andy uses a dummy attribute in the IMG tag - which his plugin intercepts and replaces it with a javascript call that enlarges your image when you click on [...]
This has been painful - upgrading RNW PageManager to work with WP 2.5.
Not that the plugin failed. It’s just that a curious omission on all the Admin pages made it a lot more difficult to use this plugin.
PageManager provides a lot of site-related functionality to RNW-enabled websites. One of its functions is to enable site [...]
I‘ve never liked the WordPress menus - specifically because for you to do most functions you have two server calls before reaching the page you want - first you select the main menu - get a page refrresh, and only then can you select the sub-menu item.
An excellent plugin that I [...]
By far the most complex plugin is the RNW Sidebar Widgets plugin. This single plugin provides the ability to add 12 custom sidebar widgets to a theme sidebar Some of these widgets offer unique features, while others simply provide enhanced capabilities over the standard widgets issues with WordPress.
As soon as I saw the WordPress 2.5 [...]
While I usually activate all the plugins for a site in one step (RapidFormatter does this for you automatically), whenever I am testing out a significant WordPress upgrade, I prefer to activate the plugins one by one.
I tend to use the following plugins on my various sites:
RNW AdManager
Advanced Admin Menus
Contact Form ][
Dagon Design [...]
If you have a high traffic, high income site, you might want to consider to setting up a test blog. It only takes a few minutes to set up a new WordPress installation using Fantastico. You can easily set one up in a sub-folder.The steps that I follow for important blogs are:
Create a new WordPress [...]
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