WordPress

Mac OS X

To enable automatic installs and upgrades using FTPS

• mkdir wp-content/upgrade
• chmod g+w wp-content/{upgrade,plugins}
• Edit wp-config.php and add:
  • define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

For more information, see:

• http://thefragens.com/blog/2010/06/wordpress-automatic-updates/
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

To create a local WordPress mirror

See http://codex.wordpress.org/MacOS_X_Local_Mirror

To upgrade WordPress

Assumptions:

1. cd gets you to the parent of the httpdocs directory
2. wordpress directories are named wordpress-version, e.g. wordpress-2.3.3
3. httpdocs is a symlink to the current wordpress directory

To upgrade:

1. cd
2. wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
3. unzip latest.zip
4. rm latest.zip
5. mv wordpress wordpres-newversion (e.g. 2.3.3)
6. mysqldump database name of blog > database name of blog.sql
7. Update the file wp-files-to-preserve to include all files and directories you want to or must keep. Create it if it does not exist. Typical, it includes:
   • .htaccess
   • favicon.ico
   • wp-config.php
   • wp-content/plugins
   • wp-content/themes
   • wp-content/uploads
   • wp-includes/languages
8. cd wordpress-oldversion (e.g. 2.3.1)
9. find `cat ../wp-files-to-preserve` | cpio -pdvlm ../wordpress-newversion
10. cd ..
11. rm httpdocs
12. ln -s wordpress-newversion httpdocs
13. Browse wesbite/wp-admin/upgrade.php (normally, this will happen automatically)
14. Reactivate all plugin-ins

And you're done.