Upgrade instructions for users of AWSOM News 1.02 

To upgrade the AWSOM News Announcement plugin from 1.0.2 to the 1.5.1 version do the following steps in order:

1) Go to your Admin Plugins area and deactivate the previous AWSOM News Announcement plugin.
2) Delete the plugin folder from the wp-content/plugin directory.
3) unzip the new  AWSOM News Announcement zip file and move the contents to your wp-content/plugins folder
4) Go to your Admin Plugins area and activate the new AWSOM News Announcement plugin.
5) You have 2 options at this point: If you previously used the Theme file tag to display your News Announcement and don't want to change
things then turn the option "Place the News Announcement On Index Page above Posts" to off. 
6) OR If you want to remove the now unnecessary Theme edits that version 1.0.2 required go into your theme index.php file
(or wherever you may have added the code) and delete:

<div id="announcement">
<?php if (function_exists('display_my_news_announcement')) { display_my_news_announcement(); } ?>
</div>

from your theme file. Make sure that you then turn the option "Place the News Announcement On Index Page above Posts" to Yes.

To upgrade from 1.1.0 - 1.4.7 to 1.5.1

1) deactivate your current Awsom News plugin from the admin Plugin menu.
2) Delete the current Awsom News folder from the wp-content/plugins folder.
3) Move the new folder to the wp-content/plugins folder.
4) Activate the plugin from the Admin Plugins menu.
5) Make sure the settings in the Posts--> Awsom News menu are set correctly for your set up and update them to save them.



