The following is relevant to you only if you are "Upgrading" DAP from an earlier version. (What's new?)
Here's how to upgrade to the new version:
- Log Out of your DAP Dashboard at YourSite.com/dap/admin/
- DO NOT DELETE your existing dap folder on your web site.
- Download the zip file (from your member home page) and unzip to desktop. You should now see a folder by the name "dap" on your desktop.
- OVERWRITE the entire contents of the "dap" folder on your web site, with the contents of the new "dap" folder on your desktop.
- Log back as DAP Admin, into your DAP Dashboard at Yoursite.com/dap/
- ***IMPORTANT***
A) It should show you a mostly-white-background page that asks you to click on a link to upgrade your installation to the newest version you just uploaded. If it does, then just click on the link to upgrade, and it should say "Successfully installed…".
B) If the mostly-white-background page doesn't show, and you are simply redirected to your DAP Admin Home Page, then you MUST MUST visit the following link:
http://yoursite.com/dap/admin/updates/update.phpBe sure to replace the text yoursite.com above with your actual domain name. And when you do that, you should then see the above page that gives you a link to upgrade your installation to the newest version.
- If you see any errors on this screen, copy/paste them into a support ticket.
- Now you must Upgrade your version of LiveLinks too.
That's it!
http://yoursite.com/dap/admin/updates/update.php
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I didn’t see my blog posts and pages right away. I had to click the save button again on the Settings/Permalinks pages again on the upgrade. Now they’re all there. This is a huge time saver since my new site has 150 pages!
Thanks Ravi…
Bob Jenkins
Bob,
Sorry, updated the documentation now to include that.
Thanks for the feedback.
- Ravi
used filezilla to drag the dap folder into my root containing the existing dap folder, then dragged the livelinks into the content/plugins area with the existing livelinks folder. Then clicked on the Save button in th Settings/Permalinks area (made sure it was not set a defaut). But still the upgrade has not been successful. Anyone know if there is something I’m missing?
Mark,
Just log in to the DAP Dashboard, and click on “Home”.
- Ravi
Still nothing under ‘Home’ link, Ravi. Do YOU see something there? (even tried hard refresh using Ctrl F5 in case it was a cache problem; still nothing)
It seems the only thing preventing my successful update to 3.4 is the final link is not appearing in my WP admin area. Is anyone else experiencing compatibility issues with the Headway theme interfering with plugin functionality? DAP 3.3 works fine with Headway if I don’t try to protect material within the content Leaves.
Ravi / Veena,
Is it possible to make the jump from 3.3 directly to 3.5 when it is released don the road? I’ll be able to pay the additional update fee at that time (still about a week or so left on my original trial period, so with the initial fee coming due I thought it best to perhaps wait it out for 3.5 if possible). Thanks much for any input on this.
Mark,
Yes, you sure can go from 3.3 to 3.5.
But there is no real need to wait though. Updating is just a matter of uploading the new files and a couple of clicks. All automated. Very easy.
We recommend that you start using 3.4, as it has a number of features that are extremely useful for you as an admin.
- Ravi Jayagopal
[...] standard procedure for installing DAP (OR) upgrading your DAP & LiveLinks versions. Nothing different [...]
is there documentation on redirection after login for specific products?
Hi Ravi,
I followed the instructions on upgrading DAP to v3.7, and when i clicked on the DAP link in my wordpress menu, i got an iframe with just this message: “Currently Installed Version(DB): 3.6
Version To Be Installed: 3.4″
Can you please tell me what to do from here ?
Thank you,
Vali.
Hi Ravi,
I’m having the same problem as Vali. I upgraded from v3.5 and now only have the message “Currently Installed Version(DB): 3.5
Version To Be Installed: 3.4″ when I click on DAP tab in WP dashboard.
In the plug-ins menu the latest Live-Links download is called ‘Digital Access Pass with LiveLinks’ and version is 0.9.
Before upgrading it was called WP-LiveLinks and version was 1.1?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Pavl
Vali,
Just re-download the dap.zip and DAP-WP-LiveLinks.zip file again. Looks like a wrong file had gotten in there somehow.
Re-download from your members’ area, re-upload to site, and you should be all set.
- Ravi Jayagopal
Pavl: See my reply to Vali above. Just re-download afresh from the site.
Thanks Ravi,
That’s fixed it. Great support as always!
Pavl
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Great support as always!
[...] standard procedure for installing DAP (OR) upgrading your DAP & LiveLinks versions. Nothing different [...]
[...] DAP v4.1 is now officially "Final". It has been very stable for over a month now, but we were just holding ground in case any bugs get reported. So unless you've downloaded DAP in the last couple of weeks. better to re-download DAP v4.1 and LiveLinks v1.6 again, and upload them to your site. (Upgrading Your DAP Installation) [...]
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