Mike's Blabberings » hosting http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog on software, testing, and the web. Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:51:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to upgrade Wordpress on Webfaction http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog/2008/12/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-on-webfaction/ http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog/2008/12/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-on-webfaction/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:00:16 +0000 Mike http://www.mike-griffith.com/blog/?p=144 I’m a relatively new Webfaction account holder and run this blog using the Wordpress software on their server.  I was up until recently on version 2.6, and felt the need to upgrade to get the new hotness in 2.7.

I gotta admit, I was a little nervous about upgrading my installation, but finally pulled the trigger.  I ended up going the easy route, using the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin.  I didn’t know for sure how it would react, because Webfaction handles the original install via black magic in their admin panel.

If you’re interested in doing it yourself, here’s how I did it:

  • SSH to your server
  • Download the installation package 
    cd ~/webapps/blog/wp-content/plugins
wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-automatic-upgrade.1.2.2.zip
unzip wordpress-automatic-upgrade.1.2.2.zip
  • Sign on to your Wordpress site admin area
  • Navigate to plugins
  • Enable the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
  • Click on the Upgrade text and follow the directions!  It’ll even give you backup files to download along the way.

Now that you’re on Wordpress 2.7, automatic-upgrades will happen without the need for a plugin!

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