There is a new version of the Joomla CMS - Joomla 1.5.11. It's just a minor upgrade, some security patches... when you have security patches it is always a good idea to upgrade...and every time there is an upgrade there are security patches so it is wise to upgrade everytime a new version is released.
It is also better to wait for a couple of days so that all possible mishaps the can go together with new release are ironed out.
No, how to upgrade Joomla in 5 seconds?
1. If you don have it already - download and install this component. Ninja Xplorer is at the moment the best file manager for Joomla out there. Since the original Joomla Xplorer got to bulky and complicated, and slow and... whatever. Ninja is lightweight, fast and it doues what it's needs to do and nothing else.
2. Download the latest Joomla version - just download the patch. What is the patch? It is an archive (zip...) of files that were changed from the previous version of Joomla. Make sure you get the right one. If you were a bit slow and forgot to upgrade, you need a different patch that if you are up to date. For instance - if you have Joomla 1.5.09 then you need 1.5.09 to 1.5.11 patch. If you are up to date you need 1.5.10 to 1.5.11 patch.
3. Using Ninja Xplorer upload the patch to the root directory. This is the directory that has joomla in it (the directory with all other Joomla directories and files like configuration.php etc...)
4. Use Ninja Xplorer to extract the upgrade patch and your Joomla upgrade is done!
It takes you less than 5 seconds!
Now every how to upgrade joomla instructions also tell you to backup everything before you upgrade anything but to be honest - I never do. I think it's a waste of time :) and just something you need to say so in case anything goes wrong with the upgrade noone can blame you since you can always say: "Yeah, but did you backup everything?".
So long...
Nokia&Samsung Phones | Food Recipes | Joomla | Website optimization | Money & Adsense | Blogger & Blogging | Water Sports
Welcome
This is "my" mashed&smashed up personal blog where I try to post useful stuff for people that are into sports, people that want technology to for for them and not vice versa, people looking for solutions to mobile phone problems especially Nokia and Android related, people that are interested in SEO in making money online and more...
Showing posts with label update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label update. Show all posts
When will Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, sNews, 19Pages... be updated?
I hope Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, sNews, 19Pages... will NEVER be updated!!!!!!
Why?
Because! :)))
1. If a script needs to be updated it means that there were bugs in it, there were security risks, there were problems, there were sites getting hacked, possibly my sites. Sites that I made, optimized, sites that are making money, sites that I might have forgotten to backup. So any security risk is a direct risk for my passive income :). Now who want a lower paycheck raise your arms! That is the firs reason I hate updates. I know update is also the time for new features and options but still... if it aint broken - don't fix it. And second and (more) important thing...
2. Time wasted! If you have one website that is your puppy, that you know every character of code personally... then you I guess can not wait for an update. Weeeee, let's see what is new, what new features are there, weeeee they changed the admin template, now it is soooo cooool. Weeee... Great. I have 30 websites and I need to update 30 websites. Weee? Yeah, right. I need to backup the site (which I don't because I'm to lazyI), update the site, solve the usual problems, solve the unusual problems, try to remember all the modifications I made, how I made them and why are they not working now, fix the extensions that are not working... Arrgghhhhhh. Even if everything goes smoothly it still takes time. and you need to do it so your scripts and CMS are secure and upto date.
And this is why I hate when Wordpress is upadated, whene the new version of Joomla comes out etc...
Why?
Because! :)))
1. If a script needs to be updated it means that there were bugs in it, there were security risks, there were problems, there were sites getting hacked, possibly my sites. Sites that I made, optimized, sites that are making money, sites that I might have forgotten to backup. So any security risk is a direct risk for my passive income :). Now who want a lower paycheck raise your arms! That is the firs reason I hate updates. I know update is also the time for new features and options but still... if it aint broken - don't fix it. And second and (more) important thing...
2. Time wasted! If you have one website that is your puppy, that you know every character of code personally... then you I guess can not wait for an update. Weeeee, let's see what is new, what new features are there, weeeee they changed the admin template, now it is soooo cooool. Weeee... Great. I have 30 websites and I need to update 30 websites. Weee? Yeah, right. I need to backup the site (which I don't because I'm to lazyI), update the site, solve the usual problems, solve the unusual problems, try to remember all the modifications I made, how I made them and why are they not working now, fix the extensions that are not working... Arrgghhhhhh. Even if everything goes smoothly it still takes time. and you need to do it so your scripts and CMS are secure and upto date.
And this is why I hate when Wordpress is upadated, whene the new version of Joomla comes out etc...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)