I offered a friend to help translate from English some parts of his (mostly) Hebrew install. Then he told me two things:
1) That he’s running 2.8 (he was worried about updating because he didn’t want the design to break)
and 2) That he has reason to suspect that the site is infected with a trojan horse since it gets blocked by some antiviruses.
1) What is the best way to go about upgrading? is it even feasible to start on a fresh installation and still have everything intact? including redirects? or will I have to go about it as per WP’s documentation: step by step upgrading.
2) What can be done about the trojan horse? this is why I’m contemplating a fresh install, which I know is probably not recommended.
Thank you in advance
The virus part is going to be off-topic, but yes a fresh install is the way to go.
What I would do to upgrade the site is:
ones from the archive. This will hopefully fix the suspected virus problem.
try to leap-frog over more than one or two minor releases.
is running hacked core files I don’t think this step will be too
much trouble, though you will have
Notice
s to fix and perhaps afew other things.
The reason I recommend upgrading release by release, rather than trying to upgrade all at once, are:
apparently caused by jumping too many releases
release, but never skip TWO when upgrading.”
I have looked at the
upgrade code and, yes, it seems like WordPress should upgrade itself
over multiple releases but does not always appear to do so
correctly– perhaps issues like timeouts get in the way.