Title: Upgrading old WordPress install
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Upgrading old WordPress install

 *  [bazzablue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bazzablue/)
 * (@bazzablue)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-old-wordpress-install/)
 * I have just taken over the management of a WordPress site which is running version
   2.8.6-beta1. I obviously want to update this to the present version but have 
   been unable to do this through the Upgrade Automatically function in the Tools
   section. After clicking the button I have enter the FTP details of the host. 
   I’m then taken to the screen that says ‘Upgrade WordPress’, ‘Downloading update
   from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.5.1.zip.&#8217](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.5.1.zip.&#8217);
   But then nothing.
 * The hosting company say there is not a problem at their end. Is there a problem
   with WordPress upgrading from such an old version to the latest version?

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-old-wordpress-install/#post-3696078)
 * Review: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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