yergler.net » upgrade http://yergler.net Because eventually I'll be right. Theoretically. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:43:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Upgrading WordPress http://yergler.net/blog/2008/08/21/upgrading-wordpress/ http://yergler.net/blog/2008/08/21/upgrading-wordpress/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:33:19 +0000 Nathan Yergler http://yergler.net/blog/?p=630 WordPress 2.6.1 is out. Reading feeds on my flight from IND to PHX this afternoon I ran across the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin (shouldn’t that be the Automattic?). Nice, but I’d like to plug my approach to managing WordPress upgrades, which I think is even easier, assuming you’re OK with minimal command-line interaction.

First, install WordPress from a Subversion checkout; do:

$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6/

instead of downloading the .zip or .tar.gz file. Configure as directed.

Then, when a new version is available, log into your webhost and run:

$ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.1/

from your install directory.

Done.

Note that you can also do something similar (but an order of magnitude more complex, at least for my brain) using git and git-svn if you want to version your local settings as well. Perhaps one day Asheesh or I will get that written up.

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