Hehe going out to my friend Erin – Confessions of A Paradoxical, whom I am so proud that she managed to upgrade her Wordpress from and older version to Wordpress 2.2.1. Erin was busy trying to find a new template, and was having the same prob like most of us when it comes to templates, which is why some of us opt to just design out own. So I stayed up at 2 in the morning to hep her settle the prod, lol.

I honestly sometimes get scared when I am upgrading my Wordpress to a newer version, cause well you never know what is going to happen, even if you do backup hehe.

Upgrading Wordpress is fairly easy. I sometimes cheat by just saving my htaccess and my wp-content, and my wp-config. Please do not I repeat i do not follow what I do. lol.

Things you must have before upgrading.

1. FireFTP for Firefox or any FTP program
2. Have your new Wordpress File already downloaded and unzipped.
3. Backup all your files from your server. (**especially HTACCESS, WP-CONTENT folder AND WP-CONFIG.php – which I’ll call HWW)

Ok now go on ahead to the wordpress codex page and read on. lol

Step 1

Go to your plugins page and DEACTIVATE all your plugins to avoid some computer mishap.

Step 2

After you have your FTP all set up connect to your server, I’m using Fireftp. So click on Manage Accounts which is on the far left and key in your details under ‘New’. Key in the new Account Name, you host name, your login and password for your server. Then when done click connect.

Step 3

Now go to your Wordpress folder which should be in public html (if I’m not mistaken) and delete the files that you are going to upgrade all accept for HWW. And anything else which you think is neccessary like favicons and what not.

Step 4

After replacing all the files, now key in this line into your address bar. Run the upgrade program at http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php. This e.g. updates your database. Its only in one step and tada you are done ^_^. Now go and activate back all your plugins and have an ice cream for doing it on your own hehe.

For those who have template inspiration issues, I shall put up a list of links which I hope will be helpful and useful to you as they were for me.