- First you have to find out whether you meet the minimum requirement. You can find the answer from you host account.
- Next you can get WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin to upgrade to WordPress 2.6.5 in about two minutes. For me I prefer to manually upgrade my WordPress blog.
- Next back up your database. If you don’t know how, these instructions will show you how.
- Then back up all your WordPress files to your laptop/PC. I prefer using FTP.
- It is very important that you double check your backups to see whether they are usable.
- Next deactivate all your plugins since they may cause problems.
- Now go to download WordPress 2.6.5 to your laptop/PC.
- Delete the old WordPress files except the following files:
- wp-config.php file
- wp-content folder
- wp-images folder (only older installations from 1.5.x days will have this folder)
- wp-includes/languages/folder; if you are using a language file, and it is here rather than in wp-content/languages/, do not delete this folder (you might want to move your language files to wp-content/languages/ for easier upgrading in the future)
.htaccessfile (if you have added custom rules to your.htaccess, do not delete it)- Custom Content and/or Plugins (if you have any images or other custom content or Plugins inside the
wp-contentfolder, do not delete them).
- Upload your unzipped WordPress 2.6.5 files to your WordPress directory.
- Type http://www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/ in your web browser and hit enter. It will direct you whether you need to upgrade your database or not. Make sure you replace yoursitename with your own domain name.
- Now head to reactivate your plugins and enjoy your WordPress 2.6.5 dashboard.
See it is not hard. Let me know if you run into any issues.
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