two-step update to wordpress 2.7.1
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 7:40 am by noelposted in tech, wordpress | tags: software, tech, upgrade, wordpress
i woke up with an update notice on the wordpress dashboard. i usually dread this event because it meant two days of updating nine wordpress installations that i keep. it takes two days because i have to backup my wordpress databases and files then manually delete almost all the wordpress files then upload the fresh. i have to do this nine times and my internet connection is relatively slow. tedious.
the good new is that with version 2.7 i can easily update my wordpress installations — they included a update script. heed the advice and backup your wordpress database and files before doing the upgrade.
once you got everything backed up and you’re sure that the backups are good take the jump and press that upgrade button. all of my upgrades were successful so far. there are two more upgrades i have to do.
i upgraded seven wordpress installations in less than an hour. that is a huge savings in time.
11 February 2009 5:20 pm at 5:20 pm
Did you update from 2.7 manually? I did. I’m afraid if I do the automatic upgrade, it will mess up my blog.
11 February 2009 6:13 pm at 6:13 pm
i performed the automatic upgrade on a couple of test blogs first. when everything went well with that process i decided to take the jump and upgrade the rest of the wordpress installations that i have. so far it 7 out 7 so everything’s cool.