Pressblog:Upgrade to version 3.0 for Drupal 6

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This document will guide you to upgrade your Drupal 6 Pressblog 2.4.1 installation to Pressblog 3.0 for Drupal 6.

Prepare your workbench

1. Be sure that you are currently running Pressblog 2.4.1 for Drupal 6. If not, please upgrade your installation to Pressblog 2.4.1 for Drupal 6 first.
2. Create a temporary installation of Drupal 6 Pressblog 3 using our installation profile. You will use this as a reference to guide you.

Backup

1. Backup everything.
2. Just in case, make sure you backed up everything =) (besides, it's always a good idea).

Update Drupal core

Take a breath and read Drupal's Upgrading form previous versions first. This upgrade will update your Drupal core to the version 6.25. We asume that you are curently using a 6.x version so it's about a "Minor update procedure".

1. Locate the root folder of your site. This is the Drupal root folder, where the index.php file is located.
2. Delete all Drupal files and folders except the [sites] folder.
3. Copy all Drupal files and folders from your temporary installation except the [sites] folder.
4. Login to your Drupal installation as administration user, your site should work as usual.
5. Run the update.php file calling a url like http://www.example.com/update.php or http://www.example.com/test_site/update.php, if your site is located under a subdirectory.

Update extra modules

Pressblog comes with several extra modules required to achieve its functionality. The following process will update them to the latest (by the time these lines are written) version, as marked bellow:

• Views module from 6.x-2.12 version to 6.x-2.16

1. Locate the extra modules folder of your site, usually at [sites/all/modules].
2. Delete the Views module folder [sites/all/modules/views].
3. Copy the Views module folder from your temporary installation [sites/all/modules/views] to the corresponding folder [sites/all/modules].
4. Login to your Drupal installation as administration user, your site should work as usual.
5. Run the update.php file calling a url like http://www.example.com/update.php or http://www.example.com/test_site/update.php, if your site is located under a subdirectory.

Patch your Pressblog theme files

1. Locate our theme folder in your temporary installation. Usually at [sites/all/themes/pressblog]
2. Locate our theme folder in your drupal 6 site. Usually at [sites/all/themes/pressblog]
3. Replace the following files in your installation, using the corresponding source files from the temporary installation
   1. Replace comment.tpl.php
   2. Replace node.tpl.php
   3. Replace node-blogpost.tpl.php
   4. Replace page.tpl.php
   5. Replace style.css
   6. Replace template.php
   7. Replace pressblog.info

Clear all cached data

This step is important in order to force your template to be informed for the changes you have made in the template files.

To do this go to Administer » Site configuration » Performance » Clear cached data