Step by Step Upgrading Wordpress Manually

As we know that wordpress grows time to time, and develop the existence version to new one, so everything become better. There are two ways to upgrade wordpress, automatically and manually. To update wordpress automatically, you need just by clicking the link in new update banner, in the top of your admin page with the anchor text please update now. You can also upgrade automatically by going to Tools then select Upgrade menu. Update automatically is very simple than upgrade manually, it is very important to backup your database first before doing upgrade.

Sometimes, we find error during upgrading wordpress automatically such can not write file to the server host or any other reason. In this way, upgrading wordpress manually is your choice, although this need your patient during uploading files to your file hosting.

In this post, I use the Byethost service as my hosting files, but generally upgrading wordpress manually is about the same. To start upgrading wordpress manually you can follow the step by step below:

Step 1: You should back up your database. To back up your database ussually this file in sql format, you should go to your phpmyadmin page, and export database to your local drive, to make it easier, ensure that you export in compressed file. This is very important just in case something goes wrong, so you can easily restore your database.

Step 2: Download the latest version of wordpress to replace your old wordpress files and folders.

Step 3 : Extract wordpress zip file, you will find the three main folder of wordpress (wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes), and the main root files such as index.php, wp-cron.php, wp-login.php and others, it is maybe about 23 files.

Step 4: Compress the main folder of wp-admin and wp-includes except wp-content, so you have wp-admin.zip and wp-includes.zip

Step 5: Login to your hosting Cpanel, and select file manager.

Step 6: Upload wp-admin.zip and wp-includes.zip to the your main root (public_html).

Step 7: Rename folder wp-admin and folder wp-includes, example: wp-adminold and wp-includesold. Renaming this folder is more easily instead of moving these folder to other location. Both renaming and moving these folder have same objective, to backup your folder. You can delete the old folder after you succeed upgrading to new version.

Step 8: Extract or unzip wp-admin.zip and wp-includes.zip to the main root folder (public_html). So you have new wp-admin and wp-includes folder.

Step 9: Overwrite files in your main root (public_html) with new wordpress files, about 23 files (as mentioned in the step 3). Don’t change or delete other files that have no related with upgrading wordpress, example: sitemap.xml, .htaccess, or any other files for verification ownership.

Step 10: Visit your main WordPress admin page at /wp-admin. You may be asked to login again. If a database upgrade is necessary at this point, WordPress will detect it and give you a link to a URL like http://www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php. Follow that link and follow the instructions. This will update your database to be compatible with the latest code.

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