WordPress Update?
May 19, 2008 – 3:37 pmMany of you out there have your own blogs. My blog is on WordPress. Every time I log on it tells me to upgrade my blog to the new version. As a matter of fact it is staring me in the face as I write this post. Well, my website, blog, site host, ftp experience is very little and the “five minute installation” of WordPress in the beginning took me 6 hours and to be honest, I have no idea what I did. All I know is that it works now, but I have been told that I will eventually have to upgrade or I will not be able to use the program until I do.
I have the “WordPress for Dummies” book but it doesn’t really seem to help me that much. I guess that makes me a real idiot. Anyway, I need something that tells me more. I tried to upload a plugin that is supposed to automate this process but it doesn’t show up in my plugin manager. ?
I’m scared.
I don’t want to lose all my stuff.
Can somebody point me the right direction or recommend a book to help me?
Please.
HELP ME!
4 Responses to “WordPress Update?”
Just do a backup (can’t remember where that is in the menu, might be “Export”) and nothing can go wrong. Heh.
I’m on the $10/year Wordpress.com hosting (which gets routed to my domain), so I think WordPress keeps that updated on their own. One advantage to that plan, anyway!
I’ve done complete Export/Import on WP before and nothing’s gone wrong. Except wait - I do remember losing photos that I had stored on my own webspace. That’s when I started Flickring everything, which is foolproof. Mostly.
By Eric on May 19, 2008
There is something to be said about the automatic functionality of WordPress.com. But NOOOO, I had to be a “Big Shot” and do everything myself on WordPress.org and now I am just a sniveling fool.
I’m sure everything will get ironed out in due time though.
By MorningWood on May 20, 2008
Hey Eric. Don’t sweat it man. If you need help, just email me and I will walk you through it. I know the upgrades are a pain in the butt, but they are for your own security in most cases. And until WP comes up with a better way to do auto upgrades, as blog owners, this is what we have to do. Yea it sucks. But having your website hacked would suck even more.
By marc on May 21, 2008
Hey Marc,
I really appreciate the offer. I have been meaning to update on my off day but I seem to get busy doing something else. I’m sure I will be sending you an assistance request email in the near future.
By MorningWood on May 21, 2008