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16 Jun 2009Well, I finally got around to upgrading WordPress again. I made a fairly prodigious leap from 2.5(.somethingsomething) to 2.8 in one step, with pleasantly few hiccups.
In fact, the only significant hiccup I faced prevented me from logging in at all (fairly significant), giving a charming error: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
This happened after I went to update my wp-config.php file to incorporate a circa-2.6 innovation, Security Keys. AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY and NONCE_KEY added to my wp-config, I attempted to login to the admin area again (it auto-logged me out, fair enough) to be greeted with the aforementioned non-negotiable error!
Turns out it was a pretty stupid problem I had… If you get this, check you have inserted the key definitions before the “Stop editing” comment in the document (I think the comment is different in later versions — my wp-config is seriously ancient, I’ve been upgrading since 0.73 and would only have started from scratch if at some past point it was required!)
Once I did this the errors went away entirely and I was able to login.