How To Upgrade WordPress Manually


There are many tutorials on the web that teach you how to upgrade your WordPress theme automatically but not Manually. Today I am going to show you how to upgrade WordPress manually. After this tutorial you will never upgrade automatic again.

Step 1

Log into your WordPress admin panel and look for Tools>Export (We’re backing up our database just in case something goes wrong)
Log into WordPress

Step 2

Download export file
Export Data

Step 3

Browse for a yellow highlight at the very top of your admin panel and click please update now.
Yellow highlight

Step 4

We do not want to upgrade automatically so download the new WordPress upgrade folder.
Upgrade Manually

Step 5

Extract Folder from .rar or .zip

Step 6

Open your FTP (file transfer protocol) and go to your main directory (where WordPress files are)
Open Filezilla etc

Step 7

Now we will delete everything except for wp-config, .htcacess and the folder wp-content
Delete

Note: Before we add the new folders into our directory delete wp-config, and wp-content

Step 8

Now lets add our new files into our directory.
Copy Files
Add New files to main directory

Step 9

Ok now head back into your WordPress admin panel and refresh the page and you should see the following message.
Congratulations!

Congratulations! You have upgraded your WordPress version without using automatic update. I hope this tutorial helped.

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Author: Marcell Purham

Hey there! My name is Marcell Purham and I am a 18 year old web & Graphic designer from Chicago IL. When I'm not designing or coding things up I'm probably skateboarding, or gaming, or just being the average human. If you're looking for me you can probably find me via @marcellpurham


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5 Responses


  1. Ollo says:

    pretty nice post man. But just out of curiosity what benefits are you finding through upgrading manually? I have just started using wp a few months back and am curious why this is so much better?

  2. Marcell says:

    Well Upgrading wordpress manually makes sure everything has been upgraded. When you upgrade automatically you still have a chance of everything not being updated

  3. Tnelson says:

    Your blog is so informative … ..I just bookmarked you….keep up the good work!!!!

  4. Masdin says:

    Marcell Purham, thank you very much for this tutorial. I couldn’t update my WP automatically due to some hosting restrictions. With the very clear explanation above I have successfully updated it to 3.0, many thanks….

    Masdin – Indonesia


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