{"id":138,"date":"2010-05-25T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonmcreynolds.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:46:20","slug":"wordpress-upgrade-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonmcreynolds.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Upgrade Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that every time I try to upgrade my WordPress site or any of the plugins, sometimes\u00a0it hangs at downloading the file. I just tried to upgrade one plugin now and it didn&#8217;t work. I did a quick search and then remembered what I had done in the past (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaveragelife.com\/2010\/01\/05\/how-to-fix-unpacking-the-plugin-error-in-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>To fix the problem with the plugins,\u00a0DISABLE ALL PLUGINS and then ONLY ENABLE the PLUGIN you are UPGRADING. This has worked for me every time&#8230;knock on wood. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the upgrade of the site. I thought it was cool that WordPress finally built in an autoupgrade feature, but I haven&#8217;t been able to get that to work most of the time. What has worked for me is this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download and install the &#8220;WordPress Automatic Upgrade&#8221; plugin (search for it from the Plugins page or you can visit the <a title=\"WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin Site\" href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/wordpress-plugins\/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html\" target=\"_blank\">plugin site<\/a>). Disable all other plugins if you have problems installing this one.<\/li>\n<li>Disable all other\u00a0plugins except the &#8220;WordPress Automatic Upgrade&#8221; plugin.<\/li>\n<li>Once installed and activated, you\u00a0should then see a ribbon at the top of the admin pages that says something like &#8220;Click Here to Automatically Upgrade WordPress to latest Version x.x.x&#8221;. Click on the link it provides and follow the instructions.<\/li>\n<li>Note: I&#8217;m not sure if this is necessary, but I&#8217;ve also set the theme to the default WP theme before upgrading. If you have problems you might want to try this too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin since before WordPress built that functionality into the product and I&#8217;ve never had any problems with it, as long as\u00a0I&#8217;ve followed the steps I mention above. I also like that it backups up your files and the database as part of the process (just don&#8217;t forget to download them&#8230;just in case).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is mostly just a note for me since I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll run into this again sometime and won&#8217;t remember what I did to fix it. However, it just might help someone else and that&#8217;s fine by me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that every time I try to upgrade my WordPress site or any of the plugins, sometimes\u00a0it hangs at downloading the file. I just tried to upgrade one plugin now and it didn&#8217;t work. I did a quick search and then remembered what I had done in the past (thanks to this post). 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