Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
With This quick video we are going to show you how to update the plugins as well as
WordPress
interface as well
so you'll know if you have a any
plugins that need to be updated
on because you have a number
that shows up next to your plugin menu on the left-hand side
that will let you know the number of plugins that need to be updated. Now this is all an
automatic process but it does require a couple clicks on your part
so we'll just go ahead and click on that'll bring us over to the screen
and then you'll see
whatever plugin needs to be updated
it's going to have this little box at the bottom
and now you can actually go ahead and view the details of whatever it is or you can upgrade
automatically
I personally is of great automatically on these
so they'll continue to work with their current version
of what I have
it's really that easy and when you're done just can return to the plugins page
if you have multiple plugins
if not
you're finished with that just one click
the other thing you want to do is when WordPress updates update
it'll have a little menu at the top
tell you that there's a new version of WordPress that's available
now before you click and update that button you do want to back up your system
to back it up what you do is you come over here to the menue on the left-hand side and look
at tools
and then go to back up
now you can back up any type of things that you want there are things that you can included not include
and generally what I do is I
include
I include just some of the basics stuff
all these other registrations well if I had actually registrations I would want to back that
as well
umm
lets see
email WordPress most of these are involved in plugins and I don't really need them
all the core components are over here but if you want to back up all of this you can do that
as well
and what I do is I either send it to an email
I generally keep everything on email so I back it up and send it to an email
this is actually a plugin that I am using
and you can just search show the WordPress plugins for back up options
or you know back up WordPress
will do it for you
I also schedule back-ups on here on a regular basis
so I don't lose anything
It'll take just a second to back up
and I'm going to go ahead and pause this while it's doing that.
alright when it's finished you'll come up with the little thing that says back up complete that that's a complete
hit okay and were done now the back of your system. It's okay to update it's okay to get ahead an update
to the new to the new version
of WordPress
so we see here that WordPress 3.0 is available click the please
update button
or link I should say
now of course you can do one of two things if you have a lot of customizations what
I recommend is you use the download 3.0
and then
what will happen is any type of customizations they have won't be overridden
if you don't have a lot of customizations in there
then you can go ahead and upgrade automatically in this case for this particular blog case for this particular flight I do not
so go ahead and upgrade automatically on this one
as you can see is just going through the process there
and in just a few seconds I'll be uploaded and updated to the
new version of WordPress
and you see WordPress upgrade successfully
upgraded successfully so we're done that's how easy it is
any questions comments concerns just let me know