Comments on: Upgrading WordPress

By: Cal Evans

Cal Evans — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:51:17 +0000

It is not a requirement that you upgrade but I strongly recommend that you do. Most upgrades to WordPress have bug fixes or security fixes in them and therefore are a good idea. As of 2.7.1 it is a lot esier to upgrade and if you’ve got FTP setup then you can upgrade in-place using the admin interface.

Thanks for the comment!
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By: Iflexion

Iflexion — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:03:05 +0000

Is it necessary to upgrade?
I’ve started blogging recently and it’s interesting for me. :)
Can I go without it?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:49:24 +0000

And you do not accidentally from Moscow?

By: Azizur Rahman

Azizur Rahman — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:35:32 +0000

I have been using svn for my local development and testing.

But I like the new WordPress 2.7 version upgrade functionality which allows you to backup/export the database before doing so.

If things fails, I have a weekly database backup to fall back.

By: Dave Marshall

Dave Marshall — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:31:42 +0000

Shouldn’t have used greater than signs…

# svn switch url_to_latest_tag

By: Dave Marshall

Dave Marshall — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:30:55 +0000

I just do

# svn switch

and hope for the best.

By: Cal Evans

Cal Evans — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:07:00 +0000

@Dan,

Thanks. I’ve seen that one and never really paid much attention to it. I guess I”m too much of a geek to let something else upgrade my site. However, since I now have like 5 WP installs to manage, I decided to try it out. I installed it on http://cyranosapprentice.com and you are right, it worked.

It took a bit of fiddling to get everything right. Since I normally upgrade by hand, I had to adjust the permissions on some directories that most users wouldn’t have to mess with.

Thanks for the tip. For those that don’t want to mess with upgrading by hand, this is a good alternative.

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p.s. I still do this one by hand. :)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:11:21 +0000

Install the WordPress automatic upgrade plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/) and it’s easy.

By: Cal Evans

Cal Evans — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:06:21 +0000

HA!

See you thought you’d get me with this one but I maintain a development server with an install of wordpress that I use to test when I have something new. (I don’t often test wordpress upgrades because it’s extremely easy to undo any changes.

Since I installed WP from scratch on the dev server and then put in a few of my blog posts, it has all the hostname info already set properly.

Even so, I’ve pulled a mirror of my site down occasionally when I’ve got difficult issues. In those cases, I usually just add calevans.com to my DNS on the server. My dev server is my DHCP and DNS server as well so doing so propagates the change to my windows box. (After the obligatory reboot) :)

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By: Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Matthew Weier O'Phinney — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:57:34 +0000

How do you handle differences in hostnames when testing first on your staging server? /me ducks…