MD-PRO 1.0 UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
Upgrading from MD Pro 1.06This upgrade can be activated whenever you want. In the upgrade process, the tables and contents are examined to see whether they reflect the latest changes. A change is thus accomplished only if necessary. 1. Before you do anything else, make a backup of your database, See MySQL Tools or use phpMyAdmin, and set default theme ExtraLite in admin settings and in your account, chmod 777 config, upload directory and all files/dir content, chmod 777 config.php, modules/AutoTheme/autotheme.cfg. 2. From the admin panel, deactivate and remove all blocks that are not core blocks
3. In Settings, deactivate short URLs. 4. Rename the includes/blocks directory to includes/blocksOLD 8. Unpack the latest distribution on your server or unpack them on your local computer and upload the files to your server Note that avatars and emoticons have been changed from MDP 1.06 to
1.07 You may delete the prior ones, although deletion is not necessary.
Keep in mind that any of your site members will no longer have their chosen
avatar if you delete them and they will need to select a new one, or none
at all. 12. Copy third party blocks from includes/blocksOLD to includes/blocks and activate the blocks. Be sure to copy only third party blocks. If you copy any core blocks, you may disable part of the program 13. When done, delete the includes/blocksOLD directory. 14.In Settings, reactivate short URLs if you were using
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