There is a reason they call the process “Backup,” and you’ll be doing several of those maneuvers as a result. The blog upgrade advised to “Backup” first, which I hurriedly ignored, and since the upgrade failed, I’ve had to backup, backup, backup. As in one step forward, two steps backup. The fancy plugins are now gone from the website, along with the work involved in producing them in the first place. Ah well… if lessons were easily learned, we’d all know way too much.