Things You Should Know About Upgrading WordPress
Recently I was contacted by a client who asked me whether there would be any issues with our Optimim WordPress (OWP) installations when upgrading plugins and newer versions of the WP platform.
Here's the response below that I gave him,.. it's a good question so I thought it was worth sharing.
"There won't be any issues upgrading after OWP is installed.
As new plugin upgrades occur just go ahead and upgrade them. If after upgrading a new plugin your site misbehaves then its a matter of deactivating the latest plugins upgraded and assessing which one caused a problem. It won't affect you overall installation.
When a new version of WP comes out then its a matter of backing up all WP files and the database before upgrading. Usually there's no problem but if there was then you have your backup to reinstate the previous installation and work from there. Actually I have never encountered an adverse situation when upgrading to the latest version of WP, but it pays to be on the safe side."
Shortly I'll be putting another post together with attendent video that will show you a very efficient way of backing up your full WordPress site and database using cPanel which takes about 10 minutes flat to do (yeah,.. I used to take an hour and I know some people spend an entire afternoon on backing up!).
Any questions or comments are most welcome,… go on,- go ahead and say something!
Cheers,
Russell
