What is WordPress Automatic Upgrade?

[Dwij]

Manytimes to protect my PC from internal and external threats, I have performed Windows security updates manually and automatically. Recently, I have heard about Wordpress automatic upgrade? What is that?

[Raine]

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org.

The main reason to use this plug-in is -

• Wordpress releases regular updates and security fixes to the software and after sometime makes it mandatory.
• Every time you have to manually upgrade your wordpress installation.
• This plugin helps you to upgrade your installation without any efforts.
• It also ensure you will always download the latest version.

• This plugin is to be used for a continious process till completion, it provides you with backups which you should download before moving to the next step. If you do not download the backups, at the end of the process you will be given an option to download it.
• Clicking clean up will delete those backup files.

• The files are db backups are stored in a folder called wpau-backup in the root folder of your site.

[Sam.D]

The main tasks of WPAU(WordPress Automatic Upgrade) are :-

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 wordpress.org 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.

[chroma]

Here are some of the important instructions regarding WPAU:

Installation Instructions

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

Usage Instructions

Go to Manage -> Automatic Upgrade and either click on the link provided to run or use the automated version link to let the plugin run in a automated way.