Upgrade Wordpress

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For this tutorial, we're going to go ahead and look at how to upgrade your Wordpress. This is pretty easy. There are bunch of steps to it, but once you see how we do it, it will make sense. The first thing we're going to do is back up our database that has my site in it. The Bluehost has site backup and restore, but if your hosting company does not have that, you may need to go down to the databases section and look for that MySQL database wizard. I'm going to use the site backup and restore. Instead of just restoring the database, I want to go ahead and do a full Cpanel backup, and that's going to be for everything. My databases, my pictures, everything. That way if I mess something up, I can go in and reinstall my entire site, and we won't really have lost anything but time. So do a full panel backup, and daily system backup, I'm going to click just as if archived, and I'm going to click on start archiving. Then it is going to give me an option to click to download, and I'm going to download the archive file to my computer. That way if something goes wrong, I can go back in and fix it. I'm going to go back out to my Cpanel, and I'm going to go into the plug-ins on my website. I'm going to deactivate each plug-in before I'd take these files off. The quickest way is to click the button on the top to click them all, go to bulk actions, and then click on deactivate it. Once they're deactivated, I'm going to go back into the Cpanel and then go back in here, and we're going to take a look at what we need to leave in which files to the left. So I'm going to go into file manager, into my web root because that's where my file is from my Wordpress site, and click on go. And my manually folder, which is where I'm keeping my Wordpress site, I'm going to choose all of the files, just the files, not the folders, by clicking on the top file which happens to be index, and clicking on shift and click on index scroll to the bottom of the list, and still holding shift, click the last one. If you have a file that is titled WP-config.PHP, you'll want to make sure that you click control or command and then click off on that file because you don't want to delete that one. If you don't have it but you should, we're going to go up and click delete to get rid of those files. And click delete. So now we're left with the folders. Let's go ahead and take a look at what we need to leave in the folders. The first one we're going to go into his WP content. This file we're not going to delete. However, if you have a cache file in here, you're going to delete that. We're also going to go ahead and take a look in the plug-ins folder. If you have a file in there that says \widgets, you will get rid of that; you'll see we also have an akismet folder, which is a plug-in file, and I'm going to delete that as well. And I'm going to go back out into my manually folder. If you have a WP--images folder, you want to make sure that you leave that on your server. You're also going to want to search for a WP-- includes/language is folder. I don't have any languages for my WP-includes but if you're using a language file, you're going to leave that there, too. Don't delete it. Next, if you've added any custom rules to your .htaccess file don't delete it. And, leave you robots.txt file if you have any of those. Since I don't have any of the robots files, I'm just going to go ahead and save all my files and delete them. Next we're going to go to Wordpress.org, and I'm going to go to to Wordpress 3.4, which is going to be used as our upgrade. We're going to save the file to our computer, and here are my extraction results, and I'm going to click close. And reload. Open up my Wordpress file, shift, and click all the files; open up my public HTML folder so I can see my manually folder, and click on my bottom file and write it into manually to get into the right place. And there it is, all of my files.