Title: Problems upgrading WP. Version will not change
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problems upgrading WP. Version will not change

 *  Resolved [Jpyper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpyper/)
 * (@jpyper)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upgrading-wp-version-will-not-change/)
 * I have an older site on WP 3.4.2. I’m trying to get it up to 3.6. I’m doing the
   update manually (get rid of all but wp-content folder and upload fresh). I’ve
   tried this multiple times and every time my WP version stays at 3.4.2. That and
   the admin CSS is a bit off now (menu items too think and some text overlapping
   where it should not. screenshot: [http://d.pr/i/vWia](http://d.pr/i/vWia) )
 * Other problems:
    -trying to access the plugins area gets me this error: Fatal
   error: Call to a member function in_admin() on a non-object in /mnt/live/ppmain/
   refresh/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-plugins-list-table.php on line 75 -Trying 
   to manually go to wp-admin/upgrade.php gets this error: Fatal error: Call to 
   undefined method wpdb::get_charset_collate() in /mnt/live/ppmain/refresh/wp-admin/
   includes/schema.php on line 20 -going to the users page will load the page but
   no users are listed and this error appears just above the list of users table:
   Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_edit_user_link() in /mnt/live/ppmain/
   refresh/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php on line 244
 * I’m using twentytwelve and I’ve tried disabling the plugins folder too. I tried
   upgrading to 3.5 first but the same things happen. I’ve tried transferring the
   files via FTP and SCP/SSH both.
 * The only not-normal thing I can think of is that this site was just transferred
   over from a different host. Same domain name and everything, but new host. The
   front end of the site seems fine.
 * Has anyone seen this kind of thing before or have a guess as to other things 
   I could try?

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 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upgrading-wp-version-will-not-change/#post-4053743)
 * Can you disable your current theme (go to the themes folder and rename the folder
   your theme sits in) and see if maybe your theme is the issue?
 *  Thread Starter [Jpyper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpyper/)
 * (@jpyper)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upgrading-wp-version-will-not-change/#post-4053796)
 * I’m have already switched to vanilla twentytwelve, the theme would not be the
   issue. It was one of the first things I did.
 * I also mentioned that in my post 🙂
    Good on you for mentioning it though, it’s
   a valuable debugging step.
 *  [legsidelizzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/legsidelizzy/)
 * (@legsidelizzy)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upgrading-wp-version-will-not-change/#post-4053799)
 * I am having the same issue – it just want automatically download the update
 *  Thread Starter [Jpyper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpyper/)
 * (@jpyper)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upgrading-wp-version-will-not-change/#post-4053880)
 * It turns out this is part of some cache issue I’ve got with the crazy setup I’m
   working with. even though I uploaded fresh files, the server was reading from
   the old files out of cache.
 * my issue is resolved.

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 * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/)

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 * Last reply from: [Jpyper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpyper/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-upgrading-wp-version-will-not-change/#post-4053880)
 * Status: resolved

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