Comments on: How To Upgrade Your WordPress Installation – The Harmless Geek Way

By: Prashanth

Prashanth — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:25:12 +0000

We don’t need a plugin to upgrade automatically now. Wordpress has this inbuilt & all you need to do is click the “Upgrade” button

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:07:58 +0000

@Sathya – Someone told me the opposite today – that it is better to backup manually or with the backup plugin and to skip those steps when using the auto-upgrade plugin …

By: AravindJose

AravindJose — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:00:45 +0000

@Kim,
It worked flawlessly for me too.

By: Sathya

Sathya — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:09:02 +0000

Hi Kim,
The plugin works most of the time, EXCEPT for the occasion when you choose NOT to perform a backup of your existing installation. In this case, after fetching the plugin, while trying to unzip you might get an fopen error. I’ve informed the author of the plugin of this bug, it should be fixed soon.

By: Santosh

Santosh — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:09:09 +0000

Kim – The WPAU plugin has always worked for us. We use it on Harmless Geek and on our personal blogs as well. =)

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:27:49 +0000

Has the upgrade plugin always worked for you? About 25% of the time I find that something goes wrong and I end up upgrading manually anyway. I actually prefer doing a manual upgrade.

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