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WordPress Install/Upgrade Issues Linger in 2.6.2

Back in March I wrote a post detailing the issues I had upgrading to an earlier release of WordPress 2. One of the issues was that I use custom table prefixes and they weren’t being read correctly by the upgrade script.
My solution at that time was to hard-code the table names into the script. [...]

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Dean’s Permalinks WordPress PlugIn

Until last night, my WordPress permalinks were nothing more than the default of a URL variable containing the number of the post ( i.e. http://www.rabidgadfly.com/?p=49). I’ve been wanting to change to a more descriptive and search engine friendly URL but this would require a boatload of work.
I ran into Dean’s Permalink Migration Plugin a [...]

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How I Fixed My Failed WordPress Upgrade

Today I visited my site to find that it was down…hard. I tried going into the WordPress administrator and was greeted with a message stating that my installation was out of date and that I needed to upgrade. This message was followed by a link to perform the upgrade.
After backing up my database I [...]

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