WordPress recently released a major upgrade, WordPress 3.0 and many Bludomain website owners also use their website to self-host WordPress. Unfortunately upgrading to WordPress 3.0 on Bludomain hosting can sometimes present a frustrating problem, it freezes or you get an “memory size exhausted” error. The upgrade is important due to better security, speed and some great new features, but most Bludomain hosting accounts have a 32MB PHP memory resource limit which can prevent the upgrade. WordPress 3.0 has grown large enough with the new features and the new Twenty-Ten theme that it requires a larger PHP memory resource limit to upgrade. But once you can get it upgraded, WordPress 3.0 will make the needed adjustments.
Fortunately there is a plugin that you can install in your current WordPress site that will bump the memory resource sufficiently to overcome the limitation and allow you to upgrade to WP 3.0 simply. The plugin is called WP memory bump and it was created by the WordPress development team to deal with the issue.
So here is how you can upgrade to WordPress 3.0 with Bludomain hosting:
1) Backup your current WordPress files (the wp-content folder is all you need to copy) and backup your database. If you don’t have the WP DB backup plugin installed now is a good time to do it. It makes the database backup a cinch.
2) Deactivate all your plugins.
3) Upload, install and activate the WP memory bump plugin. It should be the only plugin that is active.
4) Proceed with the WordPress 3.0 automatic update.
5) When the WordPress 3.0 update is complete, proceed to update your plugins in their current deactivated status.
6) You can now begin to reactivate your plugins. Most widely used plugins now support WordPress 3.0, but if you make use of any relatively obscure plugins it might be best to activate them one at a time. That way if there is a problem, you will know which plugin to suspect.
7) Deactivate and delete the WP memory bump plugin. You will not need it again.
You should now have a completed fully up to date operational WordPress 3.0 site installation. But, feel free to send me an email if you have any questions or problems.
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