Upgrading WordPress
by Bill Farmer.
Categories:
Hacking
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This site has the firewall set up so that the web server has no external access. This means that I can’t use the usual WordPress update mechanism to keep it up to date. I use FileZilla for maintaining the server, and I recently discovered you can use drag and drop to move stuff around remotely.
So my easy WordPress upgrade method is:
- Download the latest zip file and unzip it.
- Rename the wordpress folder to something else, like wordpress-old.
- Upload the new wordpress folder.
- Move the stuff you need from the old wordpress-old folder, like themes, plugins, uploads, any modified theme files and your config.php file.
- Check it works and upgrade the database.
- Remove the old wordpress-old folder.
Nearly as easy as letting it do it itself.
See Also
- Create PDF Report
- Questionnaire Maker
- Whatever-o-meter revisited
- Migrating this blog from Wordpress
- SlimStat