Comments on: How should I upgrade WordPress?

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:18:44 +0000

Dumb ! I wonder if I have read this instruction before , I just not deactivated my plug-ins . But anyways I bookmarked this instructions for future ref. good work Owen ! Hats-off

- Mac , Photo Artist

By: W.Marvel

W.Marvel — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:56:13 +0000

Nice article. Very useful.
I’d add a step after backing up: Test Back UP.
It happens that you forget to backup something or your backup get corrupted. In a very big production enviroment, I’d get the site running completely on other server from my backups (to make me sure that they are OK) and then procede to upgrade.

Thanks

J.D.

By: Alexando

Alexando — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:39:51 +0000

nice tutorial, especialy for newbie.
by the way, is there any adsense plugin for wordpress?

I have several blog in wordpress, and always do manualy in adsense script

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:21:21 +0000

For some reason when I did my upgrade on one site this week when I was uploading the new files to the server (just overwriting the old) it kept failing. Once I cleaned off the server then uploaded all went well. I am not sure what caused the trouble, and luckliy it was only a minor annoyance.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:29:21 +0000

Thanks Chris

You’re right, of course. You can leave those bits behind.

Also, I’m waiting for the next drop to upgrade

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:26:23 +0000

Returning to this post via RT’s drive by, can I be Mr Pedant, and say that you do not need to delete the wp-content directory, especially if you have in any way amended your themes.

Don’t delete the wp-config file either.

You haven’t upgraded to 2.1.3

I’ll shut up now

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:44:27 +0000

Make sure you backup your blog so you don’t ruin it. This includes the database it’s stored in. Usually you’ll have to access the myphpadmin application on your website and it’s real simple to back it up. WordPress should have a step by step guide on their website.

Be careful, lol, I really ruined my blog the first time I tried to upgrade. Didn’t work out so well, finally was able it upgrade it the second time and slowly recovered all my posts and comments and what not. Crazy.

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:30:12 +0000

Thanks for this. I have been looking to do this correctly. I now have to bookmark it.

By: lucia

lucia — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:42:50 +0000

I just use ‘one click installation’ at dreamhost. I do deactivate plugins before running, but it always works like a charm for me.