Paul A. Luzzi

December 11, 2008

Upgrade my WordPress installs from v2.3.3 to the new version 2.7.  Much better admin interface and features – though the public facing site part is no different at all.

So the upgrade was easy as could be.  Their documentation is very good.  It was a matter of doing the phpMyAdmin db backup as described by them, a tar backup of my wordpress directory, copy of the old config.php file, remove the wp-admin and wp-includes directories, extract new tar file with new release, edit config, and login.  Honestly it was about as easy as anyone could hope for.  Whole upgrade is less than 5 minutes.  So three sites down, three to go.

I’ll probably put a formal wiki page together for this, so that I’ll remember how I did this upgrade, when it comes time to upgrade again.