MyBB Community Forums - Upgrade From 1.6.8

I've carried out a number of upgrades successfully on my other forums, so I do know (and follow!) the process.

However, just tried to upgrade a forum from 1.6.8 to 1.8.12 and things went wrong.

The upgrade script ran OK, and completed without any queries or hiccups.

Obviously, none of the 1.6 themes worked anymore - which I expected.

However, the default theme was missing CSS, even when I opened and re-saved global.css

And none of the "options" buttons were clickable in Admin CP - themes, templates or Users

I've now restored the 1.6.8 version as life (and the forum!) need to go on Blush

However my question is - am I being too ambitious trying to upgrade from 1.6.8?

Have things changed so much between versions, that this upgrade just doesn't work?

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basically after upgrading from 1.6.x version
codes in templates need updating & css stylesheets also need reverting

you can install a new theme compatible with MyBB 1.8.x and upgraded forum should work fine.

Quote:basically after upgrading from 1.6.x version

codes in templates need updating & css stylesheets also need reverting

Thanks.m.

Do I just revert the default templates to update them?

How do I revert the css stylesheets?

Thanks
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upgrading guidance Wrote:Visit your Admin Control Panel, then go to Templates & Style > Templates > Find Updated Templates.
This will show you a list of all the templates that have changed during the upgrade.

You can either revert these templates to their default - meaning all the changes you've made to it will be removed
- or you can see a Diff Report which will show you exactly what's changed. If you have a custom theme installed,
it is probably best that you look at the Diff Report and apply the changes you need.

templates may be reverted before activating / installing the plugins.
[all plugins should be deactivated (& better uninstalled) before upgrading MyBB 1.6.x]

after upgrading MyBB version,
you can click on options button next to each stylesheet of the default theme & look for delete/revert option

Thanks .m.

I've tried to upgrade again and this time successful.

The thing I'd forgotten, which was causing most of the issues, was that I had renamed my admin folder when I set up 1.6.8

Blush

Seems to be working OK now but still testing: http://www.utd111.co.uk/forum/

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