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What is Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin?

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

This plugin is also called as WPAU. This plugin helps you to easily upgrade your wordpress installation to the latest version provided by wordpress, without having to download or upload any files.

In addition to this it automatically backups your current file and database and provides you with a link to download those. De-activates your plugins and remembers them so that after upgrading files it will re-activate those without you having to make any notes for which plugins you de-activated and the biggest saves you headaches of upgrading your wordpress installation.

Here is what WPAU does;

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

You can visit the Download Page here and this is a Free Wordpress Plugin!

Installation Steps for Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin

Like any other wordpress plugin, it is easy to install this plugin too with the easy to follow steps:

  1. Download the wordpress-automatic-upgrade.zip file to your local machine.
  2. Unzip the file
  3. Upload wordpress-automatic-upgrade folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

If you have already installed the plugin

  1. De-activate the plugin
  2. Download the latest files
  3. Follow the new installation steps

Have fun with this automatic upgrade plugin and make your life easy,

Wishing you all the blogging success,

Jay Author

 

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