{"id":702,"date":"2007-10-27T21:56:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/wordpress-upgrade-script\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T21:56:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T19:56:58","slug":"wordpress-upgrade-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/wordpress-upgrade-script\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Upgrade Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds<\/em>. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using.<\/p>\n

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  1. #!\/bin\/bash<\/div><\/li>\n
  2. CURDIR=$(pwd)<\/div><\/li>\n
  3. SITE="http:\/\/yoursite.com\/blog"<\/div><\/li>\n
  4. echo Updating Wordpress in $CURDIR<\/div><\/li>\n
  5. echo 1.  downloading latest build<\/div><\/li>\n
  6. wget -q http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.tar.gz<\/div><\/li>\n
  7. echo 2.  unpacking latest build<\/div><\/li>\n
  8. tar zxf latest.tar.gz<\/div><\/li>\n
  9. cd wordpress\/<\/div><\/li>\n
  10. echo 3.  replacing old files with fresh ones<\/div><\/li>\n
  11. tar cf - . | (cd $CURDIR; tar xf -)<\/div><\/li>\n
  12. echo 4.  updating your blog<\/div><\/li>\n
  13. wget -q -O - ${SITE}\/wp-admin\/upgrade.php?step=1 > \/dev\/null<\/div><\/li>\n
  14. echo 5.  removing unneeded files and directory<\/div><\/li>\n
  15. rm -f ..\/latest.tar.gz<\/div><\/li>\n
  16. echo 6.  all done !<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

    Modify line 3 to reflect your blog URL and here you go. The script downloads the latest build, unpacks it, overwrite your files and keeps file attributes, update your blog with the often forgotten \/wp-admin\/upgrade.php<\/em> step, and removes temporary files. Literally takes seconds to upgrade.<\/p>\n

    Newbie how-to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Go to the wordpress root, where wp-config.php<\/em> sits<\/li>\n
    2. Using your favorite editor (pico<\/em> ?) create a new file named updatewp<\/em><\/li>\n
    3. Paste the code in the newly created file, save, exit<\/li>\n
    4. chmod +x updatewp<\/em><\/li>\n
    5. To upgrade WordPress: just type .\/updatewp<\/em> in the root dir<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Note:<\/strong> this is based on a script I found a couple of years ago, which introduced me to the wicked tar piped line (step 3). I completely forgot where I found this originally, so if you have the feeling you might be the original coder, feel free to raise your hand in the comments :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      If you have shell access to your webserver, upgrading to the latest WordPress build can be a matter of painless seconds. As usual there is more than one way to do it, and here is one of these ways — the script I am using. < View plain text > code #!\/bin\/bash CURDIR=$(pwd) SITE="http:\/\/yoursite.com\/blog" echo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5,2,3,258,245],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-bash","tag-code","tag-linux","tag-upgrade","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}