Upgrade Wordpress; Hostmonster To The Rescue

Hello all,

I just went through the process of upgrading my wordpress blog from the default install version of 2.3.3 to 2.5, and messed up a few things (this being my first time).

1. Biggest mistake:- took up the task by myself, without first reading the excellent documentation for wordpress upgrade.
2. Backed up the files on the filesystem, but completely forgot about the db.
3. When I tried logging in to the wp-admin, it gave me a message saying that the db needs to be upgraded and please be patient. The “please be patient” message conveyed (somewhat wrongly) that the upgrade is being done, and that I didn’t need to do anything. But even after 30+ mins, when I was still getting the same message, I knew something was wrong.
4. So I searched on Yahoo! for solutions, and found the above link. However, I was already in a mess by the time I reached step 4, because now there was no way for me to disable the plugins. I was unable to even login to the wp-admin page, so how would i disable plugins.
5. This is where the excellent “fantastico” plugin of hostmonster comes into play. I simply went to fantastico, where it showed me a link to click to upgrade the wordpress db. I pressed it, followed a few “next’s” and voila, my blog is working again; and here I am writing my experience about it!

I am really liking hostmonster, till now atleast

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