How To Upgrade WordPress In 3 Easy Steps

In this train­ing, you’re going to learn how to upgrade to the lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press by fol­low­ing 3 quick and easy steps.  The entire process should take between 5 and 10 min­utes max.

Read the arti­cle, watch the video overview (where I go over the process step by step), fol­low the steps, and be sure to leave a com­ment below with your com­ments and feedback.

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How To Upgrade From Word­Press 2.6 And Below To 2.8 And Above

If you’re using a ver­sion of Word­Press prior to 2.7 you will need to fol­low quite a dif­fer­ent workflow.

Check­out the fol­low­ing video / arti­cle for you that explains the entire process step by step, you can read about it and watch it by fol­low­ing the link below:

How To Upgrade Your Word­Press Install

If you’re using Word­Press 2.7 on up, then your life just got a WHOLE lot simpler.

How To Upgrade To The Lat­est Ver­sion of Word­Press In 3 Easy Steps

Thanks to new addi­tions added to Word­Press 2.7 you can both one click update your plu­g­ins as well as your Word­Press install itself.

How­ever, to make sure noth­ing “bad” hap­pens to you, I out­lined the exact process that you can use each time a new ver­sion of Word­Press comes out.

You see, lots of things can go hor­ri­bly wrong dur­ing an upgrade.  Plu­g­ins can die, con­tent can get lost, you’re site could hang or become unusable.

There are a few sim­ple pre­cau­tions you can fol­low to ensure none of this hap­pens to you, or if it does, what to do about it.

Step 1.) Backup Your Word­Press Database.

You want to do this in case some­thing bad hap­pens and you need to revert back to your pre­vi­ous data­base.  Each upgrade updates the data­base, so you will need a copy of the pre­vi­ous ver­sion  to revert back to 2.7.

I explain this entire process here in this arti­cle ->  How To Backup Your Word­Press Database

Go ahead and fol­low that tuto­r­ial then come back and fol­low on with Step 2.

Step 2.) Click Upgrade Automatically

After you com­plete the backup and down­load it locally to your desk­top, you need to click the lit­tle “Upgrade Auto­mat­i­cally” but­ton located at the top.

Step 3.) TEST

After the upgrade com­pletes you need to test, make sure your plu­g­ins are work­ing, noth­ing is mess­ing up and you can access posts past your first page.

Video Overview

Con­clu­sion

In this train­ing we went over how to upgrade Word­Press to the lat­est ver­sion in 3 easy steps and under 10 minutes.

We did this by back­ing up a copy of our data­base, sav­ing a local copy, then click­ing the upgrade auto­mat­i­cally but­ton and fol­low­ing the steps I out­lined in the video.

We then went back and ver­i­fied that every­thing on our site is work­ing.  Our con­tent, our nav­i­ga­tion, our plu­g­ins, and our widgets.

Since we backed up, if we expe­ri­ence a prob­lem we can eas­ily revert back to the pre­vi­ous ver­sion and “pre­tend it never happened!”.

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