After reading the changelog, I decided to upgrade pufone.org blog and also write a guide with screenshots. Who knows this might help some of you out there. Here is how I upgraded from WordPress 2.1.3 to WordPress 2.2:

First, i downloaded WordPress 2.2.
Then i begun the backup. The backup process consists of two parts:

• The MySQL backup

I backed up my WordPress database using phpMyAdmin, if you don’t have it installed, you might want to read this tutorial. (half way down the page)
To do this you first need to select the database, then click on the Export link:

Then you have to select all the tables in the database (Ctrl+A) and check all the boxes i have checked, then click on Go, like this:

• The File/FTP backup

This is pretty much straight forward. I have backed up the whole www folder because there are some other files like .htaccess that WordPress might screw in the upgrade process:

The next step in upgrading to WordPress 2.2 is to deactivate all the plugins. You can do that by accessing your wp-admin… oh you know this

Now you have to delete some files from the WordPress folder. Generally, it is a good idea to delete whatever is possible because the uploading process may not correctly overwrite an existing file and that may cause problems later.

DO NOT DELETE these folders and files:

• wp-config.php file;
• wp-content folder;
• wp-images folder;
• wp-includes/languages/ folder–if you are using a language file, do not delete this folder;.
• .htaccess file–if you have added custom rules to your .htaccess, do not delete it;
• Custom Content and/or Plugins–if you have any images or other custom content or Plugins inside the wp-content folder, do NOT delete them.

Delete these Files and Folders:

• wp-* (except for those above), readme.html, wp.php, xmlrpc.php, and license.txt; files; Typically files in your root or wordpress folder. Again, don’t delete the wp-config.php file.
• wp-admin folder;
• wp-includes folder; If using a language file remember don’t delete the wp-includes/languages/ folder
• wp-content/cache folder; You only see this folder if you are upgrading FROM WordPress 2.0.

After you have cleaned up like mentioned above you have to upload the WordPress 2.2 files to the server.

Now you need to run the Upgrade script by accessing /wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow the simple steps.

=> => Tada!

Login and check if it’s all good under the hood. Activate the Plugins, etc, etc…

Conclusion:

• WordPress version 2.2 integrates widgets by default, without the need of installing the automatic plugin. The AdSense manager from mutube doesn’t work correctly when using the widget ads. It doesn’t remember the specific ad settings(type, size, colour…) it just displays the default ad. This forced me to remove the AdSense Widgets

  

• The Preview function is not available while writing posts. Writing this post has been difficult without it . Maybe it is turned off by default but i didn’t manage to find the setting. EDIT: The preview is displayed in a new window. There is a small preview link at the top of the writing page.
• Overall i didn’t notice improvements, but i somehow feel better that i have the latest WordPress. Version 2.2 that is!

You can find the official upgrading tutorial here. Good luck with your WordPress Upgrade!

Today i had to set up AdSense for this new blog and i figured that i should share the
information on how to set up Google AdSense with you so you can set it up on yours.

So let’s get started!

Here’s what you need in order to add adsense:

1. A WordPress Blog – you can get a free one at NodBlog
2. Write access on your blog hosting server – FTP, WebDav, Etc.
3. An AdSense Account. If you don’t have one, sign up now, here
4. About 10 minutes of free time

First thing first, you need to get the Adsense Manager plugin from mutube.com

You can download it dirrectly from here.

Extract the “adsense-manager” folder from the archive and upload it to your wordpress server in the /wp-content/plugins/ folder. After the upload, it should look like this: /public_hml/wp-content/plugins/adsense-manager

Next, you have to go to your Plugin settings tab in WordPress and activate the AdSense Plugin by clicking the Activate button on the right side of the screen. Just like in the picture:

There we go, you’re half way there, hang on!

Now you need find out your AdSense for Content Account Number. It’s located in “My Account” tab from your Google AdSense Control Panel:

Scroll Down the page to see the information. You need just the numbers, so copy everything that after ca-pub-. As you can see all 3 codes have the same number. That’s your Google AdSense Identification number:

Ok, go back to the WordPress administration Panel and under the Options -> Adsense Manager tab, enter your identification number described above. This being the first setup of the AdSense plugin in your blog, the access to the tab i just mentioned will redirrect you to Manage -> Ads . This is what happened to me, your experience might varry. Doesn’t matter though. Moving On, click the Save Changes button on the right side of the screen. Note the Donation info at the bottom, in the blue square. You can choose to disable donations by entering 0 in the percentage field before saving changes, i advise you though that you should donate as much as you can.

After Saving Changes, the tab should show the Ad Creation and setup page. If not, refresh the page Manage->Ads.

Set up the size and colors that you want, you can play as much as you want with theese features, this part is pretty easy. The name field is what distinguishes your defined ad types. Please try to be organized and name your adsense ads properly so you can manage them easily trough your blog. I usually name adsense blocks by size and position of where i will be inserting them into the blog. The Html markups are optional, you can use them if you know web design and if your ads are not displaying correctly. Hopefully this is not the case of your blog template. Ok! Click Save Changes.

Now all you have to do is start posting to your blog and insert your AdSense codes:

You must see the following screenshot to understand what i mean.

Note that in order to access the scroll-down ad selection menu, you have to be in the Code Viewer. You can insert default ad by simply inserting <!–adsense–> or the speciffic ads like mine with <!–adsense#ad-name–>

I hope this was helpfull, thank you for reading!

PS: The confirmation of your AdSense Account from Google may take as long as 72 hours, please be patient Allso note that if your blog is not indexed by google, then adsense targeted ads may not show content on your blog even if you set them properly. Relax, don’t stress it and results will soon start to show. Good luck! Please support us by checking the links on the sidebar.