Upgrading to 1.3
Saturday July 2, 2005 – 4:44 pmMy weblogging software ExpressionEngine just got a major upgrade, so I’ve got a long night ahead of me. It’s going to take an hour just to read the changelog! I’ll start upgrading my install later this evening — I’ll have to switch off the site temporarily, so you’ll be seeing the skater picture for awhile. I’ll post a comment to this post when I’m done wiping up the grease in the ol’ engine room.
July 2nd, 2005 at 11:42 pm
Okay, everything seems to be working and it’s time for me to get some shuteye. (It didn’t take me all those six hours to upgrade; most of that time was spent eating dinner, watching All My Children, backing up files, looking at the support forums for bug reports etc. etc.)
The membership area is pretty different now… one new thing is that avatars are now built into the system so in the future people will upload avatars to my server and we’ll no longer be using the insert-your-own-URL kludge. I need to alter the member-profile template to reflect that, and see if I can get everyone’s old avatar working in the new system. I still have them, they just aren’t showing up at present. I’m sure there are a bunch of other things I need to tweak as well, but that’s all I can see in front of me at the moment.
I’m really relieved to see my regular site templates and CSS files weren’t overwritten during the upgrade. Because I forgot to back those up, I was worried about that. I need to make a note of that for the next time I upgrade… not that I’ll see the note next time, but maybe it’ll help me remember if I write it down someplace.
BUT NOW IT’S BEDTIME!!
July 5th, 2005 at 11:39 pm
I got the old avatars working again, for those who care. If you don’t have one and would like one, go to "Your Account" -> "Edit Avatar" and either choose a default one or upload your own.
July 6th, 2005 at 5:20 am
avator ON!
July 6th, 2005 at 6:50 am
just checking mine
July 6th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
Swanky! ;)