I have finally made the leap to WordPress 2.1.2 . It seems to be quite stable and provided many new features which is noteworthy, such as auto-saving. I have taken the opportunity to add more categories, plugins, tested some themes and settled down to Anaconda from Angsuman who have Simple Thoughts

Overall the feeling is great to finally achieve this update. I have worked out a simpler strategy to update WordPress. Some may not agree, but it does take away the pain of waiting for the files to be deleted from the server

Here are my simple steps

1. Renamed the “public_html” folder to “public_html_wpXXX” (where XXX is version) (Cpanel hosting only)
2. Upload the wordpress zip file.
3. Using File Manager, unzip the file. A directory called “wordpress” is created after unzip is complete
4. Rename the “wordpress” folder to “public_html”
5. Change the permission of this new “public_html”to 755 if your host have implemented some security feature in your hosting account (eg Zend)
6. Using File Manager / FTP software, copy the file .htaccess wp-config.php from “public_htmlXXX” to “public_html”.
7. Copy the whole “wp-content” from “public_htmlXXX” to “public_html”.
8. Run your upgrade script. If you don’t remember, just go try login and you will be prompted for upgrade.
   Remember to DISABLE ALL PLUGIN AND download your database backup first before you attempt to do this.

Enjoy!

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