WordPress

Upgrading 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
14. Reactivate all plugin-ins

And you're done.