Idiot-proof upgrade technique?

  • kopperdrake

    (@kopperdrake)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    Hi guys – I’ve been asked to look into possibly providing our village with a blog and whilst I run my own blog I’ve only had to upgrade it once to 2.6 and that didn’t go smoothly, though it was a good excuse to rebuild it!

    Obviously, with someone else’s blog I’d like upgrades to go smoothly and to pre-empt another mess-up. *If* I’ve backed up my database and blog folder and things go wrong, is it simply just a matter of ftping the original backup back on to my remote server and things should just work?

    Can I make a duplicate of my WP install folder on the remote server and upgrade that, then when it seems to have gone ok rename it to the original install’s name and rename the original one so it’s a backup?

    I’m just trying to play safe – my limited knowledge tells me that as long as I have all the files on my local computer then they’re safe, but the database is the bit that scares me as I can’t just look at the version I’ve downloaded and think ‘yeah – it all seems to be there’!

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    suggestion: install the wp-db-backup plugin http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ and back up your database before doing any upgrade. As of 2.7 the automatic upgrade is part of the WP code (although it doesn’t back up – you have to teach them to do that first. For the great majority of users this makes upgrades very simple and painless.

    You can also use the wp-db-backup to set up periodic automatic database backups. I have them auto-emailed to me once a week.

    In terms of upgrading the WordPress code files, except for the wp-content folder, there is nothing in there that is custom to your site. Should a WP upgrade ever fail you can just download the older version and reinstall it.

    Thread Starter kopperdrake

    (@kopperdrake)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for that 🙂 I’ve just managed to upgrade my own site sucessfully from 2.6 to 2.7.1 which is a relief – I’ll look at the backup lugin, sounds great 😀

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