how to upgrade wordpress
November 6th, 2007 by Lawrence David
upgrading wordpress can be a pain, especially given how vague the official upgrade instructions are.
here’re some actually useful instructions i found on the wordpress forums, courtesy of “nolageek”; of course, they assume you have ssh access to your server.
1. Download backup of database.
2. Upload unzipped WordPress to /wordpress-new via FTP.
3. Rename current /wordpress to /wordpress-old.
4. Copy /wordpress-old/.htaccess to /wordpress-new
5. Copy /wordpress-old/wp-config.php to /wordpress-new
6. Copy /wordpress-old/wp-content to /wordpress-new
7. Rename /wordpress-new to /wordpress
8. Go to /wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php
Don’t forget to make sure wp-content and .htaccess are properly chmodded.
If anything happens you’ve got the database backed up and ALL of your old files on the server. just restore the database and rename /wordpress-old to /wordpress
