Struggling To Update Your WordPress? Here Is A Solution

8 Apr, 2008 | Written by Ramkarthik | under How To

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WordPress 2.5

Every time WordPress releases an update, I see few people struggling to update it for their blog. I hear it in forums. People always ask for a way to update to the newer version of WordPress. I have also seen few bloggers paying money to update to the latest version. If you are one among them, keep reading the post.

Most of you, by this time, would have heard about the WordPress automatic update plugin. If not, I’m going to talk about it in this post. That is the solution for your problem. WordPress automatic upgrade plugin does the job for you in updating to the latest version of WordPress.

Here are the steps involved in handling the plugin:

1. Download the plugin (Note: Also read the information given on that page. This is very iportant.)

2. Upload it to /wp-content/plugins/

3. Activate the plugin from your admin page

4. Backup your blog before doing anything (This is also very important)

5. Now, go to Manage->Automatic Upgrade and then select the option for automatic upgrade

6. It will take you through the process and will tell you to do few things

7. Tada! You have upgraded to the newer version of WordPress

Note: I have tried this and it worked for me. But it does not re-activate all my plugins which I had to do manually. If someone of you knows why I’m getting that problem, please tell me.

Hope you won’t have any trouble from now on. Do tell me how it worked for you.

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8 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

Madhur Kapoor | April 8th, 2008 at 5:18 pm #

This plugin is a real life saver. It does backup also .
Kavitt S | April 8th, 2008 at 10:02 pm #

great plug in, really cool
Brandon Modrov | April 11th, 2008 at 2:11 am #

I like the plugin!
John Motson | April 11th, 2008 at 9:22 am #

Nice explanation of how to backup.

Thanks for sharing.

John
Val | April 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm #

Thanks for a great blog and for sharing this information. I posted a link on my blog to this post.
Siddharth | May 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 am #

This plugin is really useful
Fachia | May 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm #

Finally I’ve found the easy steps to upgrade my new WP blog. I’ve been using Blogger mostly than WP. Thanks for great info. You’ve explained clearly.
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