Written by WordPress follows the Open Source policy of release early, release often. While this is a pretty good thing – you get fast releases to security exploits and loads of new features – but updating can be a rather problem, especially so if its something as important as your site’s CMS.
Fortunately Keith D’Souza has written a VERY NEAT plugin – WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin which makes it a painless affair to upgrade your WordPress installation. WordPress Automatic Upgrade updates WordPress installation in a step by step manner.
- If your WordPress installation is dated, then a message prompting you to update your installation.
- On clicking Upgrade, you are prompted to backup the existing installation files(or skip it).
- Next, you are prompted to backup the database(or again, skip it)
- Next, the plugin automatically fetches the newest version of WordPress via ftp from WordPress.org
- Your blog goes into maintenance mode
- De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
- WordPress files are upgraded.
- Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
- Re-activates the plugins, and puts your blog out of maintanance mode.
IF pressing next all these times sounds tedious(or if you’re lazy) there’s an automatic mode which does all these things without prompting you for it.
This is definitely a must-have and recommended plugin for WordPress.
Download WordPress Automatic Upgrade from here.
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