Comments on: Easiest way to upgrade your wordpress installation http://www.wordpress-how-to.com/easiest-way-to-upgrade-your-wordpress-installation-173/ All you need to know about Wordpress Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Peter http://www.wordpress-how-to.com/easiest-way-to-upgrade-your-wordpress-installation-173/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Peter Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:04:12 +0000 http://www.wordpress-how-to.com/?p=173#comment-164 True. However, this may sound like rocket science for the average user :) True. However, this may sound like rocket science for the average user :)

]]> By: Colin Dean http://www.wordpress-how-to.com/easiest-way-to-upgrade-your-wordpress-installation-173/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Colin Dean Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:00:49 +0000 http://www.wordpress-how-to.com/?p=173#comment-163 I would argue that the easiest way to upgrade is to use subversion from the command line. I know this option might not be available to some, but a responsible developer will use subversion (or another version control system) to manage his or her entire site. svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7 will check out the code, then, when a new version comes out, one must simply do svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/ All of the new files will be downloaded and old ones overwritten without harming anything else. Run the upgrade.php script from the web as normal to update the database, and you're good to go. I would argue that the easiest way to upgrade is to use subversion from the command line. I know this option might not be available to some, but a responsible developer will use subversion (or another version control system) to manage his or her entire site.

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7

will check out the code, then, when a new version comes out, one must simply do

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/

All of the new files will be downloaded and old ones overwritten without harming anything else. Run the upgrade.php script from the web as normal to update the database, and you’re good to go.

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