{"id":1820,"date":"2015-11-29T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:15:58","slug":"upgrade-to-wordpress-4-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to WordPress 4.3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was pretty straightforward, and involved the following:-<\/p>\n

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  1. Backup the site<\/li>\n
  2. Upgraded all widgets\/plugins to the latest versions, from within the plugins page in the WP admin.<\/li>\n
  3. Perform the upgrade from within the WP admin dashboard<\/li>\n
  4. The Folding Categories widget I was using is no longer maintained\/compatible so it was removed.<\/li>\n
  5. The existing standard archive widget was removed as it is static only and I wanted a collapsible one<\/li>\n
  6. I installed the Collapsing Categories Widget<\/a> \u2013 this was done directly by searching from the plugins page and installing automatically. No manual copying of files etc. was needed. The widget was excellent and works well with the existing customised salient theme<\/li>\n
  7. I customised the widget as required \u2013 key points e.g. for the knowledge base widget were to tick \u201cExpanding shows: Just Sub-categories\u201d, to auto expand the Knowledge Base category, to exclude the Uncategorized and Library categories, and in advanced options to untick \u201cShow top level categories\u201d. The style was set to the default of \u201cKubrick\u201d.<\/li>\n
  8. In addition, I edited the collapsCatStyles.php file from the plugins page for the widget, and changed the rule for \u201cli.collapsing.categories .sym\u201d to use a font size of 1.0em for the arrow pointer as the default of 1.1em was rather too large.<\/li>\n
  9. I installed the Collapsing Archives Widget<\/a> \u2013 This is a companion widget very similar to the above Collapsing Archives Widget and with similar settings, also coded by Rob Felty. I used similar settings for this widget, and also edited collapsArchStyles.php, changing the rule for \u201cli.collapsing.archives .sym\u201d to also use a font size of 1.0em as again the default of 1.2em was too large and also different to the Collapsing Categories Widget.<\/li>\n
  10. I had to re-enable the existing Flexi pages widget \u2013 it was not broken but for some reason the upgrade disabled it.<\/li>\n
  11. Finally took a post backup of the site again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I also performed exactly the same steps on the site for 2intandem.net which uses the same theme etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This was pretty straightforward, and involved the following:- Backup the site Upgraded all widgets\/plugins to the latest versions, from within the plugins page in the WP admin. Perform the upgrade from within the WP admin dashboard The Folding Categories widget I was using is no longer maintained\/compatible so it was removed. The existing standard archive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}