Automatic Upgrade |
Anyone that has used Wordpress for any length of time is surely aware how much of a pain it is to keep your installation up to date. It seems that a new “required update” is released weekly and then comes the painful task of upgrading all your blogs. Heck the latest and greatest version of Wordpress is less than a month old and already a new update is out.
If you want to keep up with the various updates but hate going through the hassles of manually updating your blogs, the Wordpress Automatic upgrade is just what the doctor ordered. Here’s what you get:
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.
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 site 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.
I installed this plugin on 2 of my blogs both of which had already been upgraded to 2.5 and went through the procedure to upgrade then to the latest version (2.5.1) and within about 3 minutes, each blog had been updated and was running smoothly with the latest version. No more downloading the .zip file, unpacking it, and uploading the required files to the server. A few clicks and all was done.
Now I will admit, it wasn’t perfect. The documentation states that when finished it re-activates your plugins, but on both my blogs, all plugins had to be manually re-activated as they weren’t turned back on during the update process. With that minor problem aside, the addition of plugin updates right from the admin panel in version 2.5 and the ability to update Wordpress from there as well with this plugin, running a Wordpress site is getting a whole lot easier.
