So WordPress 2.6.1 is out. I used to hate updating as i didn’t really know how to use any shell commands. Anyway now i do know and its rather easy. You have to have shell access to your server to be able to do this!
This is what i do, you can copy and paste these commands directly into PuTTY or whatever you are using.
First i change into the directory that the blog is in, mine is in a directory called blog.
1. wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
2. tar xfz latest.tar.gz
3. rm -rf ./wp-admin
4. rm -rf ./wp-includes
5. cd wordpress/
6. cp -rpf –-reply=yes * ../
7. cd ..
8. rm -rf ./wordpress/
9. rm -f latest.tar.gz
That’s it! It takes about 1 minute! This is especially handy if your host doesnt have some kind of auto upgrade feature in the control panel. Please remember to backup your blog before doing any upgrades.
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