Migrating to this self-hosted Wordpress blog has been one of the most exciting events in my journey as a blogger. Now I can tap into the huge extension capabilities of Wordpress (WP) and grow my online community easily. It has also given me an opportunity to improve my PHP and server-side skills in general. Despite these advantages, life as a self-hosted WP blogger can sometimes be a nightmare.
The frequent WP version releases have been too much to handle for a busy person like me. When I joined the self-hosted WP bandwagon, I installed WP Version 2.3.1.Since then, there have been a number of version updates and out of all these, I only managed one upgrade, a security update, courtesy of Alex Sysoef who produced a summary of the files that had been updated. I uploaded only those specific files and managed to perform the upgrade. But when it comes to major upgrades, I have so far not performed any. I have always said to myself I will do it when I am free. But with the passage of time, new WP versions got released and I still could not find the time for upgrading my site.
As I was still preparing to upgrade to WP Version 2.5, I shocked to learn that Version 2.6 had been released. When I checked the WP Roadmap, I discovered that these frequent updates are well planned and not just a mere coincidence.They say that after the 2.1 release, they decided to adopt a regular release schedule every 3-4 months with the features primarily driven by ideas voted on by users. In light of this development, I started looking for a plugin that would help me to upgrade my blog automatically. It was a speculative exercise because I had never heard of any automatic WP upgrade plugin before. But fortunately enough, the first page that I got from my Google search gave me this automatic WP ugrade plugin by Keith Dsouza. I went on to install it on my site and managed to upgrade my blog from WP 2.31 to WP 2.6 within 20 minutes. I could not believe it!!! Keith, you have made my day. Now that I am armed with this important plug-in, I would like to ask the WP team to keep on realesing the new WP versions. They can even be releasing them on a daily basis now.
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15 users commented in " Automatic Wordpress Upgrade Plugin makes my day! "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI had been putting off upgrading for a while and was two or three versions behind. Your post gave me the nudge to install the awesome plugin – within minutes the job was done. How cool!
Thanks for the prompt!
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I never knew that there’s such plugin. I picked Blogger as my blog platform because I’m not good at networking and programming. Until I read many post sharing about WordPress plugins, I’m thinking of switching to self hosted WordPress. It beats Blogger when it comes to plugin wise. Thanks for sharing this information anyway.
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Usually I update the file via FTP to update WP version
But now it become easier
thanks for the post
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Thanks for sharing this and I would be looking into that plugin as well. Cheers!
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I just found this myself, it is awesome. I’ve installed it on ll my blogs and have had zero problems.
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Wow, that plugin is awesome. I am not technical myself and yes upgrading wordpress has been a real nightmare on some of my sites.
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sweet… ill have to give that plugin a go asap!
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Awesome … I have been dreading to join the self-hosted bandwagon myself. Thanks for this bit of info
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WordPress is open source – for the good things, and for the bad things.
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I saw your comment on John Chow about this plugin. Just used it last week and it works great.
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thanks, very good..
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thx for the info, i’m going to use it very soon
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I’m always a little behind with my updates on Wordpress – I’ve often wondered about them making it automatic and hey there’s a plug-in to do it! Thanks for the info, best wishes Dan.
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I heard it doesn’t always deliver. Be sure to backup before using it.
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I got that plugin a few months ago and it is really nice. Fantastico does the same thing, but it doesn’t back up and sometimes its not as smooth as the wordpress one.
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