- Use an SSH client to connect to login.ibiblio.org.
- Back up your database tables. This only takes a minute and can really save you some headaches:
$ mysqldump --opt -Q -h mysql.ibiblio.org -u user --password="xxxxxxx" dbname > wordpress-yyyymmdd.sql
You'll want to substitute some of the flags above with yours. For instance, if your database server is mysql2.ibiblio.org, and dbname will probably match your username, etc. To save space, please gzip your SQL backup file:
$ gzip wordpress-yyyymmdd.sql
- Disable all plugins. Wordpress can get grouchy if you don't disable your plugins.
- Change directories to the directory above your WordPress installation:
$ cd /public/html/yoursite
If your blog is a subdirectory named "wordpress" then you would do the following:
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz latest.tar.gz
$ rm latest.tar.gz
WordPress may want to modify its database tables to accomodate the new version.
Browse to http://www.ibiblio.org/yoursite/wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow the instructions.
- If your blog isn't a subdirectory named "wordpress" you'll want to do something like:
$ mkdir ~/tmp
$ cd ~/tmp
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz latest.tar.gz
$ rm latest.tar.gz
$ rsync -av wordpress/ /public/html/yoursite/wordpress/
Then proceed to the upgrade itself by browsing to http://www.ibiblio.org/yoursite/wp-admin/upgrade.php and following the instructions.
- Re-enable your plugins, one by one. If you enable a plugin and then can't get to your blog, use your SSH/SFTP client to go into your wp-content/plugins directory, and remove the plugin that caused things to go wonky.
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