For newbies, using WordPress might be a little hard to learn. Even though WordPress makes it easy for users to upgrade their software, sometimes it can be scary. And yes, even scary just for clicking the button to automatically upgrade.
No worries now! Below is a video screencast on how to use the automatic update with upgrading WordPress. As a note, it is important that you keep your WordPress install up-to-date so it stays as secure as possible. It is also important that when you do upgrade, that you have a backup of your website. This is for those times that maybe your host is having issues or the upgrade somehow failed.
Hey Nile, you have a great site here I came across it looking for some wordpress information. I totally agree with what you said far as upgrading your wordpress site. Having a back up of your site is very important trust me I know I learn that the hard way :0) thanks for the value I’m looking forward to reading more of your post
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Great Post ! Its very informative and valuable post for me. thank you so much for sharing this post.
Hi Nile,
I must say WordPress is very easy to use and user friendly but little hard for newbie to understand the CMS. Thanks for this video guide.
Very indeed post in such bring a huge ideas to all of us in thinking the right things to use with for a kid of improvement…
I also make auto-updates for my wordpress blog regularly. It is a must to be secure and get the advantages of the new features released.
I didn’t know that updating WordPress is important. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed your video and I’ll follow your tips to secure my blogs.
I never backup before I upgrade. I must admit, everytime I do, i cringe. It’s worked out so far… Keeping my fingers crossed! 😀
this is GREAT information to have – BASIC….but appreciated…. 😀
Hi Nile
Even-though i dont see my comment on your sit i will keep on posting on your article, I hope you post something regarding Google missed up.
Didn’t thought that it is possible. Thanks again for the tutorial its a big help.
This is my second attempt at blogging after my inital site was exploited and my hosting company said it was guess what….. an out of date wordpress install. Great post and great information.
Thanks for sharing this video Nile! Definitely helpful and useful for us newbies. Backing up everything is a must. 🙂
Never really had a problem using the auto upgrade unless there’s an issue with a plugin or something! Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the informative video nile.. i am a newbie in wordpress, am sure bloggers like you help us get along !! thanks a ton
well thanx a lot for sharing this post
now ican easily update by wordpress effciently
Hi Nile,
Thank you very much for the post! I’m moving my blog for blogger to wordpress and are facing this problem. Really great tips for new “wordpresser” like me. Hope you continue sharing your experience.
Well this is a good post though but the problem I am getting is when I click on upgrade automatically then this shows upgrade failed then what should I do and why this happens. Is it because of the theme or something else??
Hi Sam! If you are getting a failure notice, and even if you have to put your FTP information in, it might be your host. You may need to manually upgrade your WordPress and there is a simple tutorial that is not had to follow.
Hi Nile,
Actually I never upgrade automatically wordpress, there are many possibilities that some plugins will not work with the new version each time so usually I wait 1-2 weeks in order to be sure that all the plugins I use are compatible with the latest version and only then I upgrade it. I really hate it when a site crush and need to do all the work thru FTP to search for the plugins that cause these problems so I prefer to wait first…
Thanks Nile! The video is very helpful especially if we are not that familiar with wordpress. Making sure that we have backups is also very important. Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing the video Nile. Now i can easily update my wordpress blog automatically.