WordPress Blog

Upgrading your Wordpress blog to the latest version (2.5.1 at the time of this posting) is usually a breeze:

1. make a backup copy of your blog database should something unexpected happen.
2. download the zip folder containing the latest version of wordpress (i.e wordpress 2.5.1) from http://wordpress.org/
3. extract the content of that folder somewhere in your computer
4. use an FTP program or Dreamweaver to upload all the newly downloaded wordpress files except the wp-content ( and whatever is inside the wp-content folder)
5. execute the upgrade program by entering http://www.your-blog-address/wp-admin/upgrade.php in your web browser’s address bar.
   http://www.your-blog-address is whatever your blog address is. For instance our blog web site address is http://www.saheltech.com/blog
6. follow the step-by-step instructions displayed on your screen.

and you are done! Great job!

Everything in your blog should be working just fine. However if your blog is hosted in a Yahoo web hosting account and you are upgrading from a wordpress version lower than 3.1 you might run into some little issues like links not working properly.

The problem stems from the fact that most Yahoo customers (at least the ones I worked with so far) do not have access to the .htaccess file in their wordpress admin panel or even web hosting control panel. To handle the Wordpress permalinks update, Yahoo offers a “Customizable Permalinks” plugin to handle the .htaccess file rewriting.

Since the version 2.3, Wordpress has introduced Canonical URL Redirect which causes links to not work in Yahoo Hosted blog using “Customizable Permalinks” to manage the permalinks updates.

The solution is therefore to disable that Canonical URL Redirect redirect and everything will be working like a charm.
To do so you need to download the “disable canonical redirects” plugin from this website http://txfx.net/files/wordpress/disable-canonical-redirects.phps
1- Upload that file to your “plugins” folder
2- log into your blog admin panel and activate that plugin
Et Voila!

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