Wordpress 3.5 Upgrade

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• Started 4 months ago by tjackson410
• Latest reply from Dude
• This topic is resolved

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• 3.5
• upgrade
• wordpress

1. 

   tjackson410
   Member

   Has anyone attempted upgrading to 3.5? I would like to try it for a client but don't want to cause a huge headache for myself.

   Thanks!

   Posted 4 months ago #
2. 

   Dude
   Dude

   Hi!

   We didn't receive any bug reports regarding the incompatibility with WP3.5 yet. Thus Display 2.0.3 should be compatible with WP3.5.

   Best regards,
   Peter

   Posted 4 months ago #
3. 

   IndigoVisuals
   Member

   I had a problem but I am on Display 1.4. I tried to upgrade "Display" but the download package on Themeforest doesn't come with all of the files. I tried to install and it failed. The issue I had upgrading was that in my video portfolio, anytime you click on a video it takes the whole page to YouTube instead of opening in the lightbox even I changed nothing in the Display controls.

   Posted 4 months ago #
4. 

   Devin
   Moderator

   Hi IndigoVisuals,

   What didn't you get when you downloaded from Themeforest? Can you try re-downloading the whole package again.

   You'll definitely need to be on 2.0.3 so that we are working with the same version.

   Regards,

   Devin

   Posted 4 months ago #
5. 

   IndigoVisuals
   Member

   Devin,

   I tried I downloaded the "Display" package again from Theme Forest and tried to install the Theme and it said it failed because it was missing file "style.css." I tried downloading it and installing on both a PC and a MAC and the same thing happened.

   Posted 4 months ago #
6. 

   Devin
   Moderator

   The package you download from themeforest should be a single large zip file. You'll need to first unzip that file and then inside it should be another file called Display.zip (or just Display but its a zipped file).

   That second file is the actual theme file.

   Posted 4 months ago #
7. 

   IndigoVisuals
   Member

   Thanks Devin! When I try the second ZIP it still fails but now it's because there is already a theme with the same name. Is there a simple way to upgrade that won't jack up my site? I'm a bit of a noob. I know I could delete my current version but that makes me nervous. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

   Thanks!

   Posted 4 months ago #
8. 

   Dude
   Dude

   In this case try to install the theme manually. Use a ftp client like filezilla to access your server directories - navigate to wp-content/themes and upload the uncompressed display theme folder into this folder. I'd make a backup of the "old" theme folder first (eg rename display to display_bak and upload the new theme files).

   Posted 4 months ago #
9. 

   IndigoVisuals
   Member

   Hey Dude,

   I upload the files the way you suggested and it works again! Many thanks. One more quick question. Is there a way to limit the paragraph lengths in the three "featured posts" on the home page. I would like to be able to tell the when to display the "More" link. That way I can limit the vertical size of the home page.

   Posted 4 months ago #
10. 

    Dude
    Dude

    Hi!

    Yes, you can use the more quicktag: http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More , http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/ to split your content into an excerpt and full version.

    Best regards,
    Peter

    Posted 3 months ago #

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