WordPress has released its next stable version –Wordpress 3.0.2 for the public. So it’s high time for bloggers to upgrade your blog. This is very important because older versions may have huge security risk.
According to WordPress the earlier released beta evaluation version has fixed couple of vulnerabilities like a security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain full access of the site, removed lots of minor bugs, plus bundled with lots of security enhancements.
Simplest way to upgrade:
Problem with automatic upgrade is that you need to have a stable internet connection, sometime on a bad day it may come down and as a result messes all your efforts. The FTP way upgrade is the one I would prefer.
This is how you can do that.
1. Login to WordPress in Admin mode.
2. Deactivate all the plugins (recommended).
3. Open you website with you FTP client with proper credentials (prefer: FileZilla FTP client).
4. Now you need to delete all the files keeping the wp-config.php and wp-conent folder and the .HTA access file in your host. (This is important do not delete this).
5. Now copy the new files through the client. (You can remove wp-content folder from new version since you have it there already).
6. Once finished, close the FTP client and open your WordPress admin (your-site-name/wp-admin).
7. Now open plugins and activate all plugins.
8. That’s it. Pretty simple right.
Note: We are not deleting the wp-content folder because this is the folder which contains your WordPress theme, plugins, images etc. We can keep it there intact.
Also we need not delete the wp-config.php file because it contain your WordPress settings and defines your connection to WordPress SQL database, DB user etc. WordPress version upgrade has nothing to do with this and if you delete it, you need to reenter your Database name, Database password and Database username etc. Which is a waste of time.
I have explained how to install WordPress locally in my previous post which explains how to setup the Wp-config.php file if you accidently deleted it.
Download the WordPress new version here: WordPress 3.0.2 version.
