Praveen’s Magic Quill

The first thing I did after getting my monitor fixed was to upgrade from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.5.1. Of course, the “old-fashioned” way is to follow the 4 steps that WordPress have given. I was feeling too lazy perform those operations manually and that’s when I came across the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. It makes our work simpler because it takes us through a systematic approach in updating to the latest version of WordPress software. I got 2.5.1 and it looks really good with a neat User Interface. There are quite a few new features too like media options to include videos to be embedded in your posts.

Here is what the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin does:

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the blog in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades WordPress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

Simple na? I would definitely recommend this plugin to everyone at ampli5 and others who use self-hosted WordPress blogs. Go ahead and try this out, right away! I’d love to hear about your Wordpress upgrade experience!

For more info, check the official page of the plugin at Techie Buzz