Thanks to Zirona, an open source consulting company, upgrading your WordPress installation has just become a much easier affair.
They have released their "InstantUpgrade" plugin, and having just tested it out on my sandbox site I can only say that it does exactly what it says on the box, my upgrade was pretty much instant and hassle free.
Zirona are a company from Aachen, Germany specializing in OpenSource web applications such as WordPress, osCommerce and Joomla.
Head on over to their site and
check it out for yourselves, you won't regret it.
Are there any other "upgrade" plugins you can recommend?
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The InstantUpgrade plugin
Fully automatic upgrades of your WordPress
Current version: 0.1
There’s no doubt about it: Upgrading is annoying. You must download the new version, unpack it, delete the old files, copy in the new files, run an upgrading routine.
Now for WordPress users, much of this is obsolete. The InstantUpgrade plugin provides is a easy and safe way to upgrade your WordPress automatically with a single click! (It is to say that it needs some preparations, though.) You can upgrade to the latest WordPress version, or you can upgrade to a version of your choice. |
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whats even easier is if you get a host with fantastico.
then you dont have to get that plugin it
I actually have Fantastico on my cPanel, but to be honest I have never even looked at it to try and work out what it is for. I’m a bit technologically backward like that.
I guess I will have to take a look at how it works some time.
Hi – Came across you site today through MyBlogLog. Looks good!
Thanks for this recommend – I’m due an upgrade but have been putting it off as it’s such a fiddly process. I’ll give this a bash.
Many thanks
This plugin has had some good publicity of late, but make sure you check out the file permissions you need to set and do a back-up before trying it.
If you have a sandbox install as a sub-domain try it out there first, you can never be too careful.
I remember hearing about this plugin somewhere, but I guess upgrading is not a major problem with the newer versions for WordPress.
For example, the transition from 2.5 to 2.6 was API powered and was damn simple!