WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

// September 2nd, 2008 // Wordpress

I was searching around the WordPress website today and came across the “WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin“. I always think it is a bit of pain upgrading to the new versions of WordPress so I thought that I had to give this one ago as I had yet to upgrade to 2.6.1.

So I downloaded, uploaded and activated the plugin. While I was connected to my FTP server I thought it might be a good idea to backup my entire site and database just in case the plugin destroyed the site and the database along with it.

So after being a bit hesitant I started the upgrade process. It is very easy to follow and tells you what it is doing every step of the way. Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

  1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
  2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
  3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
  4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
  5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
  6. Upgrades wordpress files.
  7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
  8. Re-activates the plugins.

There is also an option to run the click automatically so you don’t have to click “next” at every step.

My upgrade ran smoothly and I am very happy that every time there is a new version released I don’t have to go through the process of downloading it, connecting to the FTP server, backup files and database, disable plugins, upload new files, enable plugins and make sure it alls works as it should.

I would definitely recommend this plugin for any blogger using WordPress.



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