Painless Upgrade Technique for WordPress 2.1 “Ella”

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Using FTP (Step C)

1. Connect to your site via FTP, login info can be found in your host Control Panel (do not use WebFTP if you are following this instruction)
2. Navigate to the location where your current WordPress is installed (somewhere in public_html or www or httpdocs)
3. Create an “archives” folder in the location where your “wp-admin”, “wp-content”, “wp-includes” and a while bunch of files with wp-SOMETHING.php are
4. Move all the WP related folder and files except wp-config.php and .htaccess (if ant) to archives by the means of highlighting, dragging and dropping (yes drag and drop still rocks), this ensures the new install add completely clean and new files and not worry about replacing existing folders and files
5. Upload the new version of WordPress from your computer to the server (not into the archive folder, but to the root where the old WordPress was)
6. Once the upload is complete, delete the new “wp-content” folder (because it has nothing of use to you except maybe the Akismet plugin which tou can always update on its own)
7. Now go to the “archives” folder you created and moved the old WordPress to and highlight and drag the “wp-content” back one level to the root where the new WP is installed, this way your themes, plugins and any uploaded files/images are all safe and does not require to be reloaded
8. Note that your wp-config.php and .htaccess files will never be overwritten because a new wordPress install does not contain those two files
9. Now the root where the old WordPress was will have all new folders and files of the new WordPress install except the old “wp-content”, wp-config.php file and.htaccess file (if used)
10. Go to http://www.mywpsite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php
11. Follow the instructions, it’s just a two click steps

01.27.2007 - 7:53 pm - Design, How to, Resources, Tips, WordPress - 25 views -