[wp-hackers] Upgrade instructions fatally flawed for Mac

Elliotte Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Wed Jan 17 19:51:43 GMT 2007


Charles wrote:

> The solution is user folders, e.g. user/themes and user/plug-ins, that never
> ship with WP.  That doesn't mean that the wp-content/themes and
> wp-content/plug-ins folders go away, it just means that we know that those
> can be replaced wholesale since WP "owns" them.

It would probably be easiest going forward if 2.1 created a new non-user 
folder such as wp-system-content. That way existing installations could 
be upgrade without changing the name of or replacing the files in 
wp-content.


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