Upgrading Wordpress

Simple step to upgrade Wordpress on the shell

Download from the website

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Untar

tar -xzf latest.tar.gz

Check for difference on the current installation with diff.

diff -qr wordpress/ public_html/

Make sure that you do not have any file that you do not want to overwrite. Use the cp command to copy and overwrite the old files.

cp -R wordpress/*  public_html/

Visit the Wordpress Upgrading page for specific instruction for each version.

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