Simple Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5

6 Apr, 2008 Just Talk

Upgrades can be scary!

I was a little nervous about upgrading my wordpress to version 2.5. I read over the instructions for doing it manually but still wasn’t ready to make the attempt. I hear of people losing information or things not working after upgrades so I was a bit apprehensive. I often back up my content, just in case anything happens I won’t lose everything!

Backup, Backup, Backup!

If you haven’t made a back up of your blog or website yet do it and you might think about setting a schedule of doing it.

Upgrade Manually

Back to wordpress 2.5, there are a lot of steps you need to take before during and after the install if you do it manually. These include backing up your blog, deactivating all plugins, deleting certain wordpress files in your current installation, installing the new version, and reactivate all your plugins. It’s a lot more than that I just summarized some of the steps. There is a step by step instruction guide on the wordpress website that you can follow if you want to do it that manually. It will take some time and definitely be a stresser for a n00b. If you are pretty good with stuff like this and want to upgrade manually you can go HERE for the download and installation manuals.

Upgrade Easily

Or you can just use a great simple tool for wordpress called “Instantupgrade“‘ like I did! It is so simple and took all of maybe 1 minute and my blog was upgraded to 2.5. You basically install it just like you would any other plugin in wordpress, activate it and go to it’s setting page. The only thing you should have to tell it is whether you want use FTP or HTTP. After you make that decision just hit upgrade and it’s done within seconds. I can only speak for my self but the upgrade went flawless with this plugin and everything works fine. It took a little getting use to the new layout of the admin panel but it is all good.

Comments

3 Responses to “Simple Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5”

Marty on April 6th, 2008 10:26 pm

I also upgraded by way of the instant upgrade plugin. I had a similar experience to yours - totally painless. I did back-up everything before I upgraded just in case. Definitely the recommended method to upgrade to 2.5.
Rai on April 12th, 2008 9:51 pm

I also upgraded to WP 2.5. Sadly to say, the widgets section is a pain in the buttocks. The widgets won’t simply drag from left sidebar to right or vice versa. I have a post about this here.

But overall, WP 2.5 is cool.
Daniel Costalis on April 23rd, 2008 6:44 pm

Wish I had known about this… My upgrade didn’t go as smoothly as I liked, and i had to actually go in and edit some code to make my comments show up correctly. Oh well. It’s working now, and working well.