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What do you do when you told to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress?

A couple of days ago the newest release of WordPress wp2.7.1 came out and I was curious to see how it was going to work with the built in WordPress Automatic Upgrade feature.

I have a lot of Blogs and websites to upgrade so I started with some of the most popular sites and it was quite reassuring to see the auto feature just step though the procedure one by one and soon it was complete!  Very nice.

That is very nice until I hit two sites in a row that gave me the old dreaded “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /home”… blah, blah, blah.  Huh? What to do now?

So I went to WordPress.org upgrade troubleshooting and looked for the same error message.  I did not find what I wanted, but I did see one message about deleting the old WP-auto-upgrade plugin that I have been using on all of my sites.  The person said “delete it, don’t just deactivate it.”

Well that made sense because we just would not need it anymore.  Besides it was clunky and not very automatic as I have written about before. Read previous post about problems with WordPress automatic upgrade.

Then I took it one step further and made sure I backed up everything and sent a copy of the backup to my email and then I deactivated all of the remaining plugins, and then ran the auto upgrade.  It works perfectly and fast too.  No more interaction is needed like the old auto-backup plugin required.

So below is a standard procedure that I will be following from now on with all of the sites I have to upgrade.
1) – First and most important, BACKUP all files.
2) – Delete the old WP-Auto Upgrade plugin.  Don’t need it any more.
3) – De-activate all remaining plugins.
4) – Use built-in auto upgrade.
5) – re-activate all plugins.

This is the standard message list that you will see as the auto backup utility does it’s job.
Upgrade WordPress
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip
Unpacking the core update
Verifying the unpacked files
Installing the latest version
Upgrading database
WordPress upgraded successfully

Nice improvement WordPress!

Hope this helps some of you readers.

Rich