Comments on: Auto-upgrade your WordPress Blogs

By: Bob Reyes

Bob Reyes — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:00:22 +0000

I still prefer upgrading my WP installation manually. Making sure that everything is really upgraded.

By: Michael Josh

Michael Josh — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:58:08 +0000

Sometimes Fantastico ain’t that up to date with regards to the version of WP you can auto-update to. Because of this I’ve been updating manually on my main site. Problem is once you’ve done that (and this could be my server specific) you can’t auto-update anymore.

The plug-in sounds great, but since there are no guarantees its always recommended (as is in any manual WP installation) to backup the mysql database first. There’s now a plug-in that does that as well.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:23:19 +0000

I prefer doing the upgrade myself. Just like Markku said, it’s not that difficult especially if you have a good internet connection. You’ll be done in a few minutes. Besides, I enjoy doing the upgrades!

By: markku

markku — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:44:28 +0000

Upgrading per se isn’t really that hard, it’s just a matter of overwriting files through your favorite FTP client. But for most of us, it is a pain considering we typically have more than one WP install across our own little blog networks.

By: SELaplana

SELaplana — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:39:40 +0000

and we’ll save time upgrading the engine.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:52:55 +0000

Oh no … not another reason for me to succumb and start using WordPress …

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:15:18 +0000

Dreamhost has a one-click installer that does all the work for me. It even backs up the old site (but not the database, but I do that on a regular basis anyway).

By: karla

karla — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:58:23 +0000

upgrading? hehe
good thing there is already a plugin like this
upgrading sucks when you’re still using dial up internet connection

By: jhay

jhay — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:53:43 +0000

I never had troubles with upgrading before, and I do it manually. I just use CoreFTP to upload the files, it simply overwrites the old WP files except for the config file because it doesn’t come with the upgrade archive.

Weird thing is, Fantastico doesn’t seem to detect that I’ve already updated my WP installations and it insists on making the upgrade through it.

By: benj

benj — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:39:37 +0000

I actually love upgrading. It can’t be possibly easier than it is now!

/sarcasm off
lol

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:22:28 +0000

That would be good. I have accidentally deleted the config files on accident a few times myself when doing an upgrade. Good thing I had a backup.