This one goes out to all you bloggers out there who are using Wordpress.
If you use Wordpress, then you have come to appreciate the versitility and power of this incredibly useful tool. But Wordpress, like other web tools, still requires the end user to be computer literate. This point is most evident when Wordpress flashes an update in the Admin Panel.
Frankly, even though it isn’t hard to manually update Wordpress, I’ve always found it to be a bit of a hassle. It’s not user friendly, and I’m sure that there are many of you out there who probably cringe every time Wordpress flashes that update. Your hands get sweaty, and your heart skips a beat as you tell yourself “Who needs an update anyway?”.
The good news is that Wordpress just got easier. Recently, I stumbled on a really cool plugin that will update Wordpress for you. It’s called Wordpress Automatic Upgrade and you can download it here.
The plugin is free and installs like any other Wordpress plugin. Just extract and upload it to your Wordpress Plugin folder, activate and run it. The Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin does it all for you, from putting your site into a maintenance mode, backing up your data and automatically disabling your plugins and reactivating them once the install is complete, to name just a few.
It took me about 5 minutes to upgrade Wordpress and the site was up and running perfectly. It’s probably the coolest plugin that I’ve seen in a long time and goes down into my all-time favorite plugin list.
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