Was Tiki 7 a too big revamp?
I am using Tiki since version 4, and always updated within a major version with no problems, and also upgrading to the next X.1 version was no problem, yet.
At the moment I am running Tiki 6.4 (updated Tiki 6.3 to 6.4) and I wasn't succesfull upgrading it to Tiki 7.1.
At my firtst attempt I wanted to upgrade as always:
- Backup everything
- Copy special folders in an empty Tiki 7.1 download
- Perform Database Upgrade
The result was en empty website, just nothing appeared in my brwoser (tried Safari, Firefox and OmniWeb). - I suppose "Custom Center Column Header", "Site menu custom code", and so on weren't ported correctly and/or automatically.
- So I restored the Backup.
My next attempt was to update to Tiki 6.4 first and then upgrade to 7.1.
This time I disabled my "Custom Center Column Header", my "Site menu custom code", my "Custom Site Footer Content" and also unassigned my Twitter widget from the right column which includes the HTML-Plugin.
This time the website was displayed and I could edit modules and so on.
But
- After reassigning my menus (one for english and one for german) the sub menus (section-level-1 and so on) aren't displayed any more
- Tried several options, e.g. with css=y, css=n, changed the section levels back and forth
- A lot of HTML-Plugins got empty bodies and reinserting the content didn't help
At this point I gave up and restored the backup once again.
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Beside my private website I started with Tiki 7.1 as and empty version for another SourceForge Project ( lang5 ) and also with this Tiki I had several problems, some not yet resolved.
- It was very hard to get the site menu to the top bar
- despite it worked it just doesn't look very nice (Ony uppercase letters, not aligned right, etc.) - We just wanted it to look like on tiki.org
- Haven't been able to assign a simple Twitter widget at the right column, yet.
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So here is my simple question:
Am I to dump to upgrade to / run Tiki 7 or are there still some bugs stopping me to use Tiki as I was used to.
Everything I do with Tiki is done as described in the documentation.
I really love using Tiki and one of the reasons is the easiness to keep it up to date through it's well structured code. - Hope someone can help me.