Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications Matt November 11, 2024Nov 11
February 7Feb 7 Author My second attempt is already successful. After two days of "struggle" with outdated templates and mostly with the kind assistance of Matt and Esther E my live site came to life with version 5 online.My impressions are more than excellent (especially when everything works better than perfectly...and fast)Once again, thanks to the IPS team, and also to opentype for the perfect advice.
February 7Feb 7 @Adlago Please, can you tell me how you did it, step by step?I also use the opentype app and i'm afraid to update.Thanks!
February 7Feb 7 Author On 2/7/2025 at 5:10 PM, Marius said: Please, can you tell me how you did it, step by step?I also use the opentype app and i'm afraid to update.Use a test site upgraded to 5.0 and get familiar with the new platform.Create your new home page - or all the new blocks that will make up it, and a short CSS for it.In your 4.7.20 site, create a block category 5.0 and in this category create the same blocks that you created in the 5.0 platform - and simply copy/paste your codes. Also create a block 5css in which to store all the rules that you created in your test site. This will help you reduce stress after an upgrade - you will quickly create your new home page, because everything you are currently using will have to be forgotten. In fact, I tried it back with the first or second beta - I downloaded the 4.7.20 theme and installed it in 5.0 - what happened shocked and disappointed me... That's why I started building a new homepage.After my first upgrade with a failure on my pages and this topic here, I thought about the results I got and the advice I read here. And yes, then I restored with a backup 4.7.20 and started the changes in 4.7.20.As opentype advised - all pages created with HTML manually added code and database, should be converted to Builder pages. It turns out easy - You mark and delete such a page (the database is not lost) - Then you create a new page, but with Builder with the same name. You open this page for editing, and through the Block Manager select the Database block for adding. You place it in the page and with editing select your database (which was for this page). And you get the same working page again.You repeat this for all your pages created with HTML code. This way you will preserve all your pages during an upgrade.The next thing I did was remove all the unused blocks that I had created for the last 10 years (4.0 launched in early 2015). I also removed all themes - leaving only the IPS theme and my default theme. I uploaded the files for version 5.0 and started the upgrade. I only got a notification about the recommended PHP version and at that point I went to the server and switched to PHP 8.3. Then I continued with the upgrade.After the upgrade was complete, I logged into ACP and went into offline mode.I create a new theme - as a copy of the new IPS theme. I installed the blocks I had already created and added the prepared custom CSS .After checking the functionality of the other pages, and app, I found that the forum and clubs were transferred relatively well. But with Pages, I had a headache.On the advice of the IPS team, I should have reset all the templates from Pages. This is easy to do - open each template and use the Compare button - click on the arrows in the differences and change all the templates to default. For templates created by SuperGrid, you have an option to delete them - I removed all mine.Then open the databases for editing - and test with which template your page will function correctly - in my installation, only template 32 returned the pages to normal view. There were various problems with the others available to me.And yet you can expect surprises - after my pages were working correctly, I found that entries in a given category were not displayed - an empty field under the category title. The IPS team found that some templates were missing code - they added it and that made me breathe a sigh of relief... I started online with only 2 days of headaches. But it was worth it - it was like getting into a new car.It's been a many steps, but I hope I've been helpful.I wish you a successful upgrade.
February 8Feb 8 We will be making many improvements to the process of upgrading Pages.That said, it's not necessary to convert HTML pages to builder pages, as the upgrader already handles that automatically.
