Thanks once again – do appreciate your reply. I love working with WP and Buddypress because it is amazing to be part of this open source network. Last thing I want is to seem churlish 😉
I’ve done my update – lost a few things (pages and widgets fell off, but easy to put back together). Yes, reason for not upgrading all the way is that the Frisco child theme didn’t seem to be updated that far … wanted to avoid repurcussions as have a showcase thing to apply for more supporting funding in a few days’ time, so didn’t want to rock the boat too much!
Yes – getting loads of other update notices; I’ve functioned out my WPMU notice which was a pain in the backside – so it could be something like that.
Thanks for your reply: you’re right of course – there’s not loads of stuff in the widget areas that will be lost, so I can always manually restore them – not ideal though… I guess it’s not really obvious to me regarding the correct way to do stuff for ANY buddypress upgrade when you have a child theme etc. Of course I can revert to previous db and files – but then I wouldn’t have made any headway…
I think it would be good to have some sort of framework for users like myself who are not actively Buddypress developers, but who do use WordPress as developers. There possibly is something, somewhere but for the life of me it ain’t obvious.
Also – something confusing me is that the Buddypress documentation suggests that there will be an upgrade notice for Buddypress in the network admin plugins area – but I don’t have this. I guess what I do is to manually remove the old Buddypress, then upload the new Buddypress and then activate the plugin? Then, hopefully, the BP wizard will retune the database afterwhich I get on with all the tweaking – moving files to my child theme, altering the language files etc.
