The Big 2-oh!

January 30, 2006 on 2:38 pm | In New Features, Updates by Josh Jones |

WordPress 2.0

To go with all our big 2-related news, we went ahead and upgraded this blog to the newest version of WordPress2.0.

 And it was SO easy. It took like 2.0 minutes, maybe.

¿Why?

Because our Goodies > One-Click Installs area now has one-click upgrades!beta

And don’t worry, we keep a backup copy of your original at whatever.old, it being betaand all..

27 Responses to “The Big 2-oh!”

  1. Rob L. Says:

    Hey, great idea, DreamHosters. Thaaaaaaaanks…

  2. DreamHost Tech Support Says:

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

    (assuming it works properly.)

  3. repking Says:

    This works GREAT.

    I tested in on http://blog.davidsm.com and http://wiki.davidsm.com (but the later has not too much content) and worked SMOOTHLY, FAST AND GREAT!

    Thankyou very much!

  4. The Unofficial DreamHost Blog Says:

    Great!

    I just upgraded The Unofficial DreamHost Blog and it worked flawlessly!

    Thanks DreamHost.

  5. vicm3 Says:

    WOW, thats what I call a nice feature… if this is a dream, don’t wake me up.

    Keep the good work guys!

  6. [David:moua] Says:

    Great :)

    It works perfectly.
    It’s really useful when you have hundreds joomla/blogs…

    There is just one missing feature now : auto update.

    Something that auto update when there is a new version.
    So the website will never have security hole.

  7. Jason Says:

    That is so awesome I can hardly stand it. Looking forward to giving it a test drive.

    Question - is there a One Click Downgrade in case hte One Click Upgrade hoses it?

  8. [David:moua] Says:

    Oooops, talked too fast.

    After updating joomla i get this error on my site :
    “For your security please completely remove the installation directory including all files and sub-folders - then refresh this page”

    I just deleted /installation directory and it works fine.

    It would be great to delete this folder automatically after update.

  9. David Harrison Says:

    What about if when I first setup Wordpress I didn’t use the one-click install? Would the one-click upgrade still work?

  10. Will Says:

    Looks like this blog template needs to be updated. Isn’t showing comments on main page.

  11. Tom Says:

    You guys would have to wait 2 days after I did it by hand to implement one-click upgrades…

    Just kidding! Thanks a bunch.

  12. Paul Says:

    I seriously just did this myself yesterday.
    Gooood dreamhost you suck!

    haha Definitly just kidding about that one)

  13. phoenix Says:

    OH SNAP ONE CLICK UPGRADES

    Absolutely GLORIOUS! Now I have no excuse to not run the most recent versions of the software behind my sites. Thank you! Unlike my brethren up there, I’m a slackass and had been hoping this would happen. ^_^

  14. helge Says:

    upgrade from mediawiki 1.4.4 to 1.5 didn’t work (db-errors, some tables didn’t exist), had to move back. site was offline quite a while..

  15. helge Says:

    forgot to say: the feature rocks nevertheless!!

  16. Matt Says:

    Whoa, for a sec I thought you meant you’d upgraded my university blog! Wow. Thanks though guys!

  17. Dean Says:

    Works…sorta. Hey I know it’s beta!

    I originally developed the DM site/blog in a subdirectory below root then moved it into “production”. The upgrade installer still thinks it’s there below root. So - it didn’t really work for me. I ended up manually updating to 2.0.

    But still - Dreamhost ROCKS! Especially you Josh.

  18. Mike Wills Says:

    When will you have 2.0.1 available for the upgrade?

  19. Mybeau Says:

    It all worked like a breeze. Thank you pals.

    Just a …. comment.
    I love the “No comments yet” of the newly largely commented posts.. Is that a WP 2.0 new feature?
    :-)
    2nd thoght, they qhouldn’t put a “s” on comment when there is none. :-)

  20. Mybeau Says:

    >> 2nd thoght, they qhouldn’t put a “s” on comment when there is none. :-)

    I hate “u”s please read “thought”
    I hate “s”s as well. Should read “shouldn’t”
    Sorry

  21. Jason Says:

    Wow, this worked beautifully on my site, even with my semi-kludged template. Very very cool. I am mucho impressedo.

  22. Nate MC Says:

    Huzzah! My laziness paid off big time this round. I had been fearing the upgrade process.

    Thanks folks, I’m off to try it now. After backing up though.

  23. Lee-Roy Says:

    2¢: Actually, it’s just as correct to say “No Comments” and in my opinion, it sounds better. “No Comment” is what you say to reporters during the perp-walk. While on the subject of the perp-walk “No Comment”, isn’t that kind of a paradoxical statement, since it in itself is a sort of comment?

    Still, both “No Comments” and “No Comment” become incorrect when in fact there are comments. I think this should be one of the first bugs to get fixed, as it is most noticeable and confusing to the average user (me).

  24. Lee-Roy Says:

    Hey Y’all,

    The Comment (and other bugs) seem to have been fixed by the new wordpress 2.0.1, released about a week ago. The one-click installer is up to date and will install this version, not 2.0.

    Lee-Roy

  25. mahalie.com » Dreamhost Offers One-Click Wordpress Upgrades! Says:

    [...] I can’t imagine a better web host. I really can’t. As if I wasn’t already borderline fanatical about them, Dreamhost goes and adds one-click upgrade functionality to their control panel. Sweet! Now I can upgrade all my blogs in 30 seconds instead of an hour. I bet your web host doesn’t do that! I bet your web host’s newsletter isn’t as fun to read as this, either! Muahahah! [...]

  26. mandrl Says:

    This is cool. Seriously. Keep up the good work!

  27. Unofficial DreamHost Blog » Blog Archive » DreamHost Newsletter - February 2006 Says:

    [...] One-Click Installs Upgrader! The one-click installer of WordPress, phpBB, Joomla, etc. now also do one-click upgrades. See also The Big 2-oh!. [...]

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