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    • CommentAuthor4evrblu
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2007 edited by 4evrblu on the 09th January 2007 at 15:02:32 EST
     
    I have 3 blogs and two of them upgraded just fine. I used virtually the same procedure for all three. My third blog, http://bluestravels.com ran into an odd hiccup that may have fried the web site.

    Of course I backed up everything and proceeded. The one thing I forgot to do before upgrading was deactivate plugins! My bad. That said, what follows seems unlikely to have been caused by that oversite. Still, you never know.

    Once the uploading of all new 2.06 files was complete, I loaded "upgrade.php" in my brower and did the the upgrade. What happened next was very odd. When I went to my web site/blog it loaded a new theme called travelogue 2.0, even thought travelogue 1.03 was selected in the theme switcher.

    I tried everything I new to switch themes, but no matter what I did WP keep displaying this TL2.0 theme, which is represented by wp-tl2 in my database.

    After nearly 8 attempts, I finally was able to get my old theme to load, the old theme you see now. "Whew", I thought. I figured all was well. Still, I decided to do a wipe of my old database just to be on the safe side, followed by an import of my most recent backup via phpadmin. That went swimmingly. I then went to my new, succesfully imported DB and deleted the wp-tl2 data field, since that seemed to be creating my troubles (or so I thought).

    I deleted the TL 2.0 theme from my themes folder.

    I then went back to admin, and all my entries were there as before. Yet, no matter what I did, I was unable to toggle themes. And that is where things stand now. Eeeeeeek!shocked

    I am wondering if there is a datafield that handles information on themes that I need to drop.

    Has anyone encountered anything like this before in their blogging experience?

    Thanks
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      CommentAuthorainslie
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2007
     
    Similar, when using the theme switcher widget. Probably way off the mark but I just deleted the widget and everything worked fine.
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    could be because you didnt deactivate the plugins, either that or are you using a theme switcher plugin at all?
    • CommentAuthor4evrblu
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2007
     
    Hi guys.

    I guess great minds do think alike.

    I just came back from my blues blog while you guys were typing. I just finished having looked over all my plugins, and I began deactivating theme, starting with......MY THEME SWITCHER PLUGIN. LOL

    And that was the cause of my troubles. Seems like it is somehow incompatible with 2.06. My blog is working fine now.
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2007
     
    The upgrade from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 doesn't have any database changes. Only core files.

    Could be a plugin issue.
    • CommentAuthor4evrblu
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2007
     
    I might want to post this in WP forums.
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2007
     
    That would be a good idea 4evrblu but I can confirm 100% that the upgrade from wordpress 2.0.5 to 2.0.6 does not mess with anything in the database.
    • CommentAuthor4evrblu
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2007
     
    Yeah, I know. It is probably worth mentioning though.
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    Let us know what you find out from the WordPress forums.
    • CommentAuthor4evrblu
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    Well, so far I have seen nothing from the RSS for the topic, which is here:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/99994?replies=1#post-496013
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      CommentAuthorarwen54
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    I cheated..I didn't do a full upgrade because I was too busy at the time..I did overwrite "templates.php" in the admin directory though as someone mentioned in another thread that's where the security issue was.

    anyway...my biggest problem is still the huge amount of spam I get even with having both Akismet and Bad Behaviour installed. Any suggestions of what else I can do?
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    Speaking of spam... I opened my inbox this morning to find over 200 unread messages!! They were nearly all complete spam, undelivered mail reports, looks like someone is using my server to send out a ton of spam from sad Hopefully should be fixed within a day though!!
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      CommentAuthorarwen54
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    yikes! that's not good, Christopher...is that from your domain's mail server or is it your ISP email addy?
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    @arwen54: Bad Behavior was updated a couple days ago, so grab the latest version.

    When you say you're getting a huge amount of spam, is it comment spam or just email spam?
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      CommentAuthorarwen54
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    it's comment spam, Sean
    I thought I upgraded it (bad Behavior)..but I'll check, thanks
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    @karen - my domains mail server sad so far i've changed all my passwords including my cPanel login and email accounts. so if i get no more spam sent through my server now i've changed all my p/w's, then i guess someone managed to breach one of my passwords...
    • CommentAuthor4evrblu
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    man that is SCARY!
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    christopher: nothing leaves an aftertaste quite like spam in the morning...
    • CommentAuthorDeanStev
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    Are you sure it was being sent from your server, or were you a victim of "BackScatter"?
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007
     
    For the people not aware of what backscatter is, here is a link.
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      CommentAuthorSean
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2007 edited by Sean on the 10th January 2007 at 19:34:08 EST
     
    arwen54: Bad Behavior upgraded within a week of the last time you downloaded it.

    I check in on plugins I have installed weekly for updates.
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    nope wasn't sure whatsoever if i'm honest, thats why i said "if i get no more spam, then i guess it was a p/w breach" but it seems i'm still getting the undeliverable mail reports even after all passwords have been changed, so now for some advice, how would i go about stopping the backscatter if thats what i'm getting? i really have no clue, thanks in advance, and sorry for taking this thread way off topic :o)
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      CommentAuthorarwen54
    • CommentTimeJan 11th 2007
     
    @Sean...okay
    thanks, I'll go upgrade it

    @Christopher...I had that problem with my old domain webzonecentral.com
    it was a real pain in the a**!

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