How to Upgrade Wordpress Manually?

There are two different procedure to Upgrade Wordpress. One is manually and the other is automatically. To upgrade Wordpress automatically, just download wpau plugin, upload and activate the plugin.

Here are the steps to Upgrade it manually.

Step A

1. Download to your hard drive the latest Wordpress http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
2. Now create an test directory and extract the zip file in that folder.
3. There are three folder such as: wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes


Step B

1. Backup your website’s data or folder such as wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes, you can use Wordpress database backup plugin.
2. Create a backup of wordpress database using the following commands.


You can use Cpanel to take this backup. Here is the video tutorial to do it.
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http://www.gotmyidea.com/70116-cpanel-tutorial-taking-site-or-database-backup.php
http://matthewhelmke.net/2008/01/30/making-automatic-backups-for-your-website/
http://matthewhelmke.net/2008/02/01/automatic-mysql-backups-using-php/
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Step C

1. Now just copy the following files from your old wordpress folder to new test directory.
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* wp-content (Here is an sample location of thet file: /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-content )
** wp-config.php (Here is an sample location of thet file: /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php )
***/home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/languages ( If you are using a custom language file.
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2. Now move the /test/wordpress directory to your original wordpress directory i.e /home/username/public_html/
3. Access the following link from browser.
http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php


Here is the detailed exact syntactical description of the total procedure.
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*Take the database backup using the following command.

# mysqldump databasename > databasename.sql

**Suppose your wordpress directory location is /home/username/public_html/wordpress.
Take a backup of your wordpress directory using the following command.
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#cp -rp /home/username/public_html/wordpress /home/username/public_html/wordpress.bak

***Suppose you are using the following test directory to download the new WordPress.
/home/username/public_html/test

#cd /home/username/public_html/test
#wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
#tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
#cd wordpress
#rm -rf wp-content wp-config.php
#cp -rp /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-content wp-content
#cp -rp /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php wp-config.php
#cp -rp /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/languages /wp-includes/languages (if you are using a custom language file.)

****Now remove the directory /home/username/public_html/wordpress/ completely.

#rm -rf /home/username/public_html/wordpress/
move the /home/username/public_html/test/wordpress directory to /home/username/public_html/wordpress using the following command.
#mv /home/username/public_html/test/wordpress /home/username/public_html

*****Now access the following link from browser.

http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

Wait for 40sec. You have finished the upgrade process.





For further details please view the following links.

http://kipram.com/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-manually/
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/upgrading-wordpress-manually/