Have you updated to WordPress 2.5.1 yet. Are you a little nervous about going through the update process. Worry no more. Keith Dsouza has written a post on a blog plugin called WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.
As the name implies, this blog plugin will upgrade your WordPress installation to latest version almost automatically. I say almost as you do need to click through some of the processes. However it is as auto as you are ever going to get. In fact the whole process takes no more than five minutes.
The upgrade follows the recommendations for WordPress upgrades in that it:
- Checks that everything is okay to upgrade
- backs up your data files
- disables plugins
- puts the site ofline
- uploads the upgrade files from WordPress
- install the files
- updates data files
- enables plugins
- puts your site back online
All this is done while you basically click okay at each step. You can put it on auto and the blog plugin will do many of these steps without you clicking ok. It certainly makes the upgrade process much smoother and less intimidating.
Well I was holding off on upgrading and this made it a lot easier!
It even figured out that it had permissions issues and went in and fixed them for me (which was very nice).