I have upgraded version 4 to version 6 on my local server which mostly went well using the upgrade documentation.
After edits and cleaning up I then went through the steps of deleting the old v4 theme, then adding the new v6 theme. Deleting the old plugins and adding the new ones. Activating the theme and running the migration script.
Looked at the site and it was smashed. I then deleted the site, migrated the local site using BackupBuddy (1.3GB) which is working and setup on the live server with a new database and all. The site is again smashed when I reviewed it?
This link shows how it looks on the live server and from the local server: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/268903/Site-Upgrade-Failure.pdf
I noticed the visual composer is not showing on the admin pages or posts. The code is also not translating on the site. I can only use the themes built in templates.
I then restored some function by going back to v4 and the old Visual Composer 4.4.4 which still doesn’t show on the admin side?
Could this be a server and or Cloudflare caching issue?
How am I going to get the site working on this account?
Regards
Peter
Most often issue with Cloudflare — you can find lots of comments about such issues in the forum. You should have all caching OFF and cleared before doing any updates, upgrades, migrations, etc. — otherwise you have weird mix of old/new and hence crashing of doom.
I forgot to turn off mod_pagespeed one time doing upgrade and it was a “dog’s breakfast” as my dad used to say!
Hi Chris,
Thank you. The site is now running on the new setup. Love all the great new features in version 6.
So, if you are running through CloudFlare, or any other CDN optimisation service, purge all cache, suspend the account then clear all your browser caches before you begin the upgrade. After your new site is up make sure all is working exactly as expected then turn the cache back on.
Regards
Peter
Yeah.. there used to be a sticky post I did about moving from Newspaper 4 to Newsmag, which kind of outlined all that … but I think they “unstuck” that since they have their own upgrade guide now.
Stupid CDN caching! đ
