In the past I’ve upgraded Wordpress the old school way: download latest.tar.gz, unzipped to a temp dir, backed up the database, backed up my docroot, copied the new files into place, ran the upgrade script, and made sure all was right with the world. Not terribly difficult to do, but very much a hassle that I very much preferred to avoid.
But then this morning I decided to glance a bit further down the Upgrading WordPress page and saw this little gem:
Your WordPress installation is successfully upgraded. That’s as simple as we can make it without Updating WordPress Using Subversion.
Part of me is upset that I didn’t look for that option before, and the other part of me is upset that they don’t make this particular option more prominent. But the rest of me is super happy at how easy upgrading is now. All’s I go to do is:
- back up the database
- SSH into my document root
- Run
svn up - Hit the upgrade script in the browser
I love simplicity and automation. I should look harder for it in other areas of my life where tedium kills my motivation.
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