Can i update wordpress version of my PHP5 customised wordpress site into latest wordpress version? Now it is in 4.6 and i want to move it to 4.9.1. Any issues will be rised?
You can do it and mostly that will not cause any of issue. But before do WordPress update make sure you have to take backup for your databases once.
First of all take backup for database and make your full theme folder backup and store it as a zip , so if any issue will be raised then you directly unzip that as a theme and that will work fine.
If you have do your WordPress customization all in function.php file then your new WordPress will work perfect with your changes.
If your site have Woocomerce or other more useful plugin for front site then you should take backup for that also.
After WordPress update you may be find plugin update so do it one by one.
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So I have a wordpress theme I'm working on. When I deploy the theme to the server I pack it into a zip and upload using WP admin. Assuming this theme is already installed I expect an update to happen but WP treats it as new and proposes to activate the uploaded theme. What am I doing wrong?
Unfortunately, I have no (s)FTP or SSH access to the server.
It is worth mentioning that metadata in style.css is the same (hence theme name, author etc).
WP version is 6.0.2
Thanks in advance.
when it installed in a domain but not working for some unknown reason then simply delete the plugin and re-installed it but now it also the same situation it's not working even it not change its settings also.
I have an older Wordpress website that is now inaccessible (most likely due to an out-of-date plugin). Is it possible for me to backup the "Pages", "Posts", and "Plugin" data to use in a new version of Wordpress? Or would I have to bring the old site back to life and then update to the latest version of Wordpress?
Thanks in advance!
Try renaming the plugins folder to old-plugins and then accessing the site; disabling all the plugins may get you back into admin and then you can upgrade. Once you've upgraded, you can move the old plugins back into plugins one by one and see which ones crash.
If you want to move to a new host and simply delete the old site and all plugins and themes, export the older site database with https://www.adminer.org/ or https://www.phpmyadmin.net/ or similar database admin tool. The database contains all your pages, posts, menus, plugin settings, etc.
Set up a new WordPress site with the latest core WordPress files and folders from a download, but don't install WordPress. Import your database, configure the wp-config.php file for the new database settings - i.e. database name, user, password, and table prefix - and visit the site with your browser. WordPress will tell you that the database needs to be upgraded, and it will do that. Then you have a site with your old content but the latest files and upgraded database.
You're basically moving WordPress to a new server, but not installing WordPress: https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Keeping_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs
My website is using WooCommerce 2.6.14, so I thought I should update to WooCommerce 3.1. The weird thing is that I don't see "Update now" button in the Plugins admin page:
Plugins page
And I can't manually update WooCommerce by overwriting the folder in FTP because it's not visible!
FTP
Any idea how can I update WooCommerce?
First back-up your WordPress site if you haven’t already.
Download a ZIP file of the plugin you need to upgrade.
Use FTP to delete the existing plugin directory from the wp-content/plugins/ directory on your site.
Replace the deleted directory by uploading the unzipped plugin to the wp-content/plugins/ directory leaving it in a directory that looks like (for example) wp-content/plugins/plugin-name
5.Sign in to your WordPress site. Go to the ‘Plugins’ menu and verify that the plugin you upgraded is the newest version.
Hi I have a wordpress website and want to update via wp-cli.
Will the command wp core update leave the wp-content folder alone?
The upgrade process will affect all files and folders included in the main WordPress installation(Mainly it's wp-admin and wp-includes). This includes all the core files used to run WordPress. If you have made any modifications to those files, your changes will be lost.
Simply, you can change only wp-content files. And wp-content will not be affected by core update.
But, I suggest to take backup before any update.
[user#server]$ wp core update will not update the wp-content folder ideally.
You should be careful with WP CLI as it can upgrade to a major version of wordpress instead of a minor one. This might lead to plugin incompatibility.
Please use the following commands to check the version and upgrade to a minor version if necessary.
[user#server]$ wp core version
[user#server]$ wp core update --minor
Also it is a very good idea to take a complete backup before updating your wordpress installation.
You can use a free plugin like Duplicator which will give you a nice backup for your installation.
Happy updating!!