Changes

Optional: If you want to change the domain URL that wordpress will be accessed with, apply any changes to the URL property '''before setting up wordpress''', refer to options below, default is wordpress.

Optional: If you want to change the domain URL that wordpress will be accessed with, apply any changes to the URL property '''before setting up wordpress''', refer to options below, default is wordpress.

====Upgrade Setup====

====Upgrade Wordpress version====

If you already have an earlier version of wordpress installed, then you will need to run the upgrade option first. After installing the new rpm with yum (as per Installation instructions above), go to

 

{{Note box|msg=The in place update process of Wordpress is not available per se, you need to update rpm as we rely on EPEL for SME8 and SME9.}}

If the version you want is not yet available in smecontribs, and you do not want to wait, you can do

yum update wordpress --enablerepo=epel

then go to  

  http://www.yourmaindomain/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php

  http://www.yourmaindomain/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php

and follow the instructions given.

and follow the instructions given.

{{Note box|msg=according to  [[bugzilla:8007]], when you upgrade your wordpress website from the old version of Noble/Stephdl to the newer (=>3.7.1) of smecontribs, you may have a blank page, do not panic, it is mainly due to the lack of your theme/template in the new location (/usr/share/wordpress). You can either install another theme or play with rsync to copy your old wp-content folder to the new location

{{Note box|msg=according to  [[bugzilla:8007]], when you upgrade your wordpress website from the old version of Noble/Stephdl to the newer (=>3.7.1) of smecontribs, you may have a blank page, do not panic, it is mainly due to the lack of your theme/template in the new location (/usr/share/wordpress). You can either install another theme or play with rsync to copy your old wp-content folder to the new location

'''before to proceed, you NEED all your backups (DB and /opt/wordpress folder)'''

'''before to proceed, you NEED all your backups (DB and /opt/wordpress folder)'''