WordPress Updating Made Simpler?

Updating to the latest version of WordPress is a pain. You have to download the most recent version from the main site and then overwrite the old files with the new ones. It’s not all that difficult but why does this system exist when updating can be made even easier?

This plugin aims to simplify the process. I don’t want to try it out though.

I would prefer a method built into WordPress itself that pulls the latest files from a server and updates itself on demand. It isn’t that hard to implement this.

The load on the server hosting the WordPress files would be massive if all the WordPress blogs on the Internet started updating at once automatically so there should be some sort of authentication system to keep out the spam blogs. Additionally the updates should not be automatic. The blog should update only when requested. Getting mirrors for the latest files should not be a problem either.

Category: Software

Posted: Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 11:42 pm.

9 Responses to “WordPress Updating Made Simpler?”

George says:
February 9th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

If you had it on your own server, I’m pretty sure you could use svn to update all the files. And then you could do whatever is needed for the upgrade from the web interface. That’s quite simple.
Marc Z says:
February 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

I know about the SVN method and didn’t mention it because it is way too complicated.
Bart says:
February 11th, 2008 at 4:24 am

Dude. SVN isn’t complicated. This is the best way to keep the things up-to-date, and it’s pretty simple in fact!
Marc Z says:
February 11th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

If it were so nice George would have done it already. No thanks!
Bart says:
February 13th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

Actually, it is so nice and sooooo simple. Just give a try!

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion
Marc Z says:
February 15th, 2008 at 12:09 am

Have you done this, Bart?
Bart says:
February 15th, 2008 at 4:00 am

Dude. Everywhere I can!
Marc Z says:
February 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

For this I will need shell access to my account, right? My current host does not allow that for the type of account I have and I’m not switching to another just to get it working. Otherwise I’d be on it right now.
Bart says:
February 15th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

Well, that puts things in a different perspective…

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